“Every single activity of the mind or body can be experienced with a passionate focus, with no regard or need for “outcome”. Which, being intensely lived in the moment, releases burdens of acquisition and the trappings of results measured by time past or time future.”
That’s a paragraph lifted from my blog about my practice of Apophatic Bliss*.
Secondary questions about a mind or body experience being true or good or important become irrelevant, when the focus of my attention is conveyed by my innate senses of aliveness.
Aliveness here includes the tunnel vision awarenesses of the will to live, self-protection at a primary instinctual level, and my animal binary trigger sensitivity which I describe as,
“If it moves, it will kill me, or I will eat it”
Boreholes drilled by fine tuned inspection into the great questions tell me only I am going nowhere.
Instead, I gain the juicy satisfaction that arrives with my touching into the fabric of existence. I touch into the fabric of what is in the way sci-fi films show glowing symbols being manipulated in space two-handed on a holographic computer screen. This is a visceral enjoyment that has nothing to do with an intellectual understanding.
The act of melding my mind and heart with my perception of the what-is of existence totally satisfies me. I am filled with a mildness I compare to a much anticipated cup of cool water in my mouth from a natural spring.
Should I, on the other hand, think to examine, inspect, question or parse existence, the object of my attention disintegrates, and I am washed up, all arms and legs, on the shores of undoing.
https://everynow.blog/2018/08/19/in-the-cradle-of-now/
*https://everynow.blog/2021/11/23/the-practice-of-apophatic-bliss/
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