Friday, May 19, 2017

What I know



I am.
I know I am.
I know I am alive, and not dead.
I know I am awake, and not asleep.
I know I am conscious, and not unconscious.
I know I am aware, and not unaware.
I know I am now, and not then.
I know I am here, and not there.
I know I am,
I know I can't say I am not.

This exact immediate instant of Now
 feels like a dimensionless unchanging point
 with no room for, or no time for, ANYthing,
 just this immediate Now-ness, this immediate alive-ness,
 this immediate awareness.
There is a timeless quality about it,
 there is a formless, nonlocatable quality about it
 -- time and form and location, they take time to discern,
 and there is no room for any duration of time
 in this exact immediate instant of Now,
 this infinitely small point of nothingness
 that contains everything.

And as it is with being Now,
 so it is with being Alive,
 so it is with being Aware,
 so it is with beingness itself,
 so it is with presence itself.