november 19, 2018

For One Moment

Screw tomorrows, laters, afters.

Move away from meaning and the impetus to make meaning.

Forget “If only he/she/they/it hadn’t” and “If I do this, then…” and “All I need is FILL IN THE BLANK in order to…”

Set aside fixes, saviors, the idea of salvation or enlightenment. No one and nothing can save us because we don’t need to be saved and “enlightenment” is not at all what any of us thought it would be, because it’s not a “would be” or “will be.”

Give up all hope of things ever being even a milli-something greater or less or different than they are right now. No change. At all.

Really, really, really.

Give up completely and rest completely in what is here.

Meet this.

Touch this.

What is this?

Don’t try to answer.

Don’t anything.

Just…