Life Has a From–To Cross-Section. Being Does Not.

But let us brush away the mystical fog these words might suggest. For me, this means being able to see, in the events of our lives, who we truly are. Whatever happens, after the first shock, to discover that there is something that does not change. The fact that I am does not change. There is something unchanging behind fear, anxiety, panic, worry, and hopelessness. To sense this in anything—this, for me, is grace itself: pure wakefulness, awareness transformed from the mud of consciousness into pure gold, enlightenment.

The events of the world, the stages of our lives, are surging at a frantic pace, while at the same time it feels as though everything has frozen, tensely awaiting inevitable changes. The moment holds the paradoxes of life. There are very hard lessons, and even stronger ones may come in the near future. There are so many ways to look at this. I deeply feel it is worth spending time observing what our own relationship to all this is like.

What do we feel under the influence of possible future scenarios played out by the mind? What do they bring up in us? What and how do we fear—and why? What would remain, who would remain, if we let go of everything? Would that take away from who we are, or would it add to it? Do we have unfinished matters that carry pain? What would closure mean, and how could it happen? And perhaps the hardest of all: our bonds to those we love. How do these ties define who we are? What would happen if they ceased? What would actually remain then—and could that be taken away?

Our linear thinking is no longer able to interpret the lessons, possibilities, and connections hidden in events. But in this closure, the gate of a new opportunity opens, because Being cannot be finite. And this is total and complete surrender. There are so many ways to arrive at this. But it does not necessarily require some mystical initiation, a long and sacrificial religious or spiritual path, spiritual courses, or techniques. Being is now clearly offering another way: the current, seemingly insane, world-rearranging change itself. Like a hurricane that can sweep everything away.

This rearrangement offers two paths: the doomed labyrinth of the mind clinging to the past’s linear thinking, to calculability, to possession, to old paradigms—or total and irrevocable surrender.

The path where the rational mind finally dissolves into what it cannot interpret. It does not matter what the mind calls this now. It has no real significance, because now it does not understand—and afterward, it will no longer need to name it. When, without the supposed certainty of the next moment, everything we would hold back, freeze into possession or into knowledge, is let go. Our heart, our consciousness, our soul open completely and become one with the only existing moment.

I feel these are truly worth engaging with, because these clarifications are important elements of preparation. We can find so many treasures if we look behind our closed inner doors. It is worth it. For everyone.

With love,

Your traveling companion