Suffering is the effort to contract the boundless into an 'i.' Why shrink awareness into 'my' awareness?
Whether in pain or pleasure, in solitude or in the marketplace, just stop contracting awareness.
The effort to enclose consciousness in a separate "i" strains not only our minds but our bodies. We show this strain in our faces, especially around our eyes. It cannot be hidden. We love to gaze into the eyes of children because their faces are so open, so free of constraint, reminding us of a time before our effort began, when "am" was self-sufficient, without "i."
We do not superimpose the ego onto awareness, as if it were something else. Ego is simply the futility of shrinking and confining what is by nature boundless and free.
Liberation is the natural condition. Therefor "i" is an unnatural act, a violation of divine law, and a self-inflicted wound. "i" is the Fall, the original sin. "i" is separation from God. Yet this exile is totally self-imposed. And because "i" is actually impossible, the effort to contract what is unbounded is the seed of every sorrow.
Abiding in the grace of the Effortless gives the universe permission to perform miracles.
Photo: Broome Sunset Camel Rides, Australia
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