Just This
and another day begins.
Since my retreat, I have fallen in love with early mornings. Steeped in shadow, the world still sleeping. The sun not yet risen, magic everywhere. I wake more or less each day between five and six am, light a candle, meditate, sometimes on the cushion, sometimes just seated by the fire, watching the world revealing itself with each flicker, each moment. No expectations, nothing to do, nothing to fix.
Just this.
That beautiful co-emergence of the world and of me, each moment, shifting, breathing, revealing. This gorgeous symphony, the chorus of “things”, and the silence between.
Just this, and another day begins.
This post was originally written around my 37th Birthday just after my first Vipassana silent meditation in December of 2024. A journey that no doubt changed me forever. A journey that will forever ripple into my writings and thoughts to come. You see, what is so unique, is that we take so much for granted, there is in fact nothing “normal” or “just” about “this” moment or any moment, the ever-embracing now-ness all around you, the now-ever you will never escape from. This, right here, this very moment right now, wherever you are, is beyond comprehension, beyond magic, beyond time and you are IT. The most beautiful and precious gift of conscious awareness and you never even had to try.