ALL AND NOTHING

The usual saying is 'all OR nothing' immediately underlining the illusion of separation that floats up as an aspect of the play of life itself. This OR that. Mind appears to be part of life itself as 'you' also appear to be part of life itself. In the forgetting of the ONE is the potential for remembrance and for the 'coming home' that is the 'goal' of so many on the spiritual path.

The 'goal' and the 'path', the 'coming home' and even the 'forgetting' are constructs of the mind needing to attach meaning, attain something, do and problem solve that which just IS.

Mind likes to be the driver, the leader, the instigator, the impulse for action, the do-er.

Action simply rises naturally as part of emptiness, not separate from as in a deed or a project or an achieving, but simply an unprompted flow of energy that arises as an expression of life.

Mind wants to lay claim for all that happens. Mind wants to say 'I' did that! It is like the child wanting others to notice what they are doing..... 'Mommy look at me!' 'You, Mommy' over there and 'me' over here doing something that needs to be looked at.

Actually thought does not precede action as is assumed (by mind) but action arises followed by thought.
Perhaps notice this... it is split second but it is so. Apparently.

Mind is the commentator. Mind remarks upon that which is happening anyway. Not unlike a football game on television where the commentator remarks on every play that happens after the play happens. It may seem that they are commenting as the play happens but in truth they have observed and then comment. Or so it appears to be. Action followed by thought arising. Life is happening without mind's directorial guidance. Apparently.

In truth it is all a dualistic illusion anyway including the football game, the mind commenting, the television, the popcorn, the chair and yes, 'YOU'. There is no 'two'.

The ALL is the NOTHING is the ALL is the NOTHING is the ALL is the NOTHING is the ALL is....

Pure energy, free of construct or meaning or form. Being.

Not even containing freedom. Not a container. Not even nothing.

Free even of awakening, enlightenment or certainly a 'you' to 'become' any-thing. How could a 'you' become what is already there?

and yet ALL... and... NOTHING.

That which is sought after exists in the stillness, in the movement, in the noise, in the silence, in the light, in the darkness, in the sky, in the earth, in the skin, in the water, in the mouth, in the bones, in the wings, in the petals, in the boughs, in the cells, in the linoleum, in the music, in the needle, in the honey, in the gun, in the child, in the silkworm, in the bucket, in the stone, in the elephant dung, in the smile, in the slander, in the forgiveness, in the grace, in the rapist, in the open air, in the chalice, in the spectacles, in the chair, in the monk, in the illusion of all this.

The totality of being is dualistic and non-dualist and also neither and both.

JUST BEING. Only ever BEING.

JUST THIS. ONE. ALL and NOTHING.