I know it sounds like ballyhoo, but what were you put on this Earth to do?
Why are you here?
What is your purpose?
These three, basic questions have been boggling the human brain since the beginning of time.
Religion and dogma, morality and ethics, systems and civilizations have all sprung up as a result.
We hunger to know why.
"Why am I here?
What was I born to do?"
Our collective thirst can not be quenched.
We aim and we strive to fulfill, achieve and to embody all that we are taught and all that we are told.
Yet, we are usually left feeling unfulfilled and empty.
Typically, our grasping and our wanting only leads to more...
grasping and wanting,
more striving and aiming
in an externally-focused direction where what we think we seek is found outside of ourselves.
Where some pie in the sky awaits for us, on the by and by.
(Yes, I'm quoting Utah Phillips here.)
Perhaps, it does.
(Who knows?!?!)
Nonetheless, do you really want to spend all of your time, n-o-w, here on this planet Earth,
waiting for a long and sustained death so that your perfect heaven can be reached?
Paradise and a glistening Garden of Eden lay all around us,
n-o-w,
simply waiting for us to direct our grateful gazes inward.
The dark and dank soil of our souls awaits
a piercing prick,
the fertilized seeds
of love, compassion, equality and justice
await an all-encompassing container.
You.
N-o-w.
In this moment.
This is all there is.
You
Ready and willing
to dive into the ever-unfolding, pitch-black stillness
of your soulspirit where a ripe and fertile center mirrors the expansive cosmos above.
Relax your eyes by softening your gaze (by doing so, you will also relax the muscles in your face).
Take a nice, deep breath in through your nose.
Experience the sound and feeling of the air molecules moving in through your nasal passage, down
the back of your throat, into your lungs and belly and then back out.
Do this again, and again.
Hear the sound of the air as you breathe, in and out, in and out.
Feel a warmth begin to spread out from your center.
This is it.
This is all there is.
You
and this moment now.
With your breath, look around you.
See the faces of others. Witness the lines, patterns and shadows of the space you are in.
Feel this, Be-ing here now.
There is no need to judge it.
It just simply is.
It just simply is.
N-o-w
How will you enjoy it?
