Coming to Now

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First there is the *taste* of nothingness.

It may take a long time to find the savor.

But when it comes, it is unmistakeable.

 

Then there is the release of attachment

to that " little nirvana " . A coming home

to what is, to unconditional acceptance

of what is in this moment. Again, it may

take a long time. It may not. But in any

event unconditional acceptance does take

hold. When it does, it only dawns as a

quiet realization that what was looked

for so long the looking itself has been

long forgotten... when there is no

investment or belief, when resignation

is ultimate and complete... it gradually

dawns that complete acceptance in the

now is the case.

 

When that dawning shows itself, it is

a miracle to realize the sweet beauty

of *whatever* state of mind, of whatever

content of consciousness.

 

All effort, all interest in altering

one's state has utterly extinquished.

No intent arises to make a change.

How can this be?

 

Well, it seems that the " fly in the

ointment " , whatever turbulence within,

has finally ceased, dissolve, melted

away.

 

Something that was is no more.

 

And what has always been is plain to see.

 

Oh yes, and that " nothingness " is now

so clearly seen in *everything*. There

is nothing that is not the nothingness.

 

 

 

 

Bill