Open Aware Presence

We habitually search for certainty and something to grasp. But what if our very effort to grasp reality, to pin it down conceptually as this or that, is what creates confusion, uncertainty, doubt and delusion? In recognizing that no conceptual formulation can capture this living reality, in relaxing the attempt to grasp the ungraspable, in holding on to nothing at all, there is immense openness and freedom.

Because we feel separate from life and think of ourselves as a tiny object in an often threatening world, we inevitably feel deficient, anxious and dissatisfied. We search outside ourselves for a cure. But what if, right now, in this moment (the only moment), we stop the search, relax the grasping mind, and give complete open attention to sensory experiencing (hearing, seeing, breathing) and to the sense of presence itself?

In open aware presence, we may discover how suffering and confusion are created by unnecessary thinking, and we may experience ourselves as the vast unbound stillness, spaciousness and openness that has space for everything to be as it is and space for something new to emerge. That openness, that aware presence, is love.

The thought-sense of being small and separate disappears in the recognition that all apparently formed things, including people, are like waves in the ocean—ever-changing and inseparable movements of the whole. This seamless, boundless, centerless aliveness is ever-changing while never departing from the immediacy of here-now, this one bottomless moment.

What is offered here invites firsthand exploration and direct discovery, not belief or dogma. There is no finish-line, no formula, no method, nowhere to go, only this ever-fresh aliveness.