the bright

That's what Adi Da calls it in The Knee of Listening. fireceremony's recent posts have inspired me to write a few words about my own experience of it lately. Although it's funny, because this experience can be damned hard to express with language.

It feels remarkably like nothing, or maybe the experience of nothingness. awesboss's description of fulfilling one's natural commitments describes the content of one's actions while fully engaged thusly. Whatever it is, I just notice that time passes fluidly, and things get done without any apparent effort on my part. The worldliness of the world has disappeared, to the extent that I'm not concerned with what's happening or how to do anything or how my present actions will affect future events or what's coming up on my horizon. I can leave the world alone to unfold as it will, and then I simply become gathered up in the unfolding without concern.

Of course, this is simply the way things are, and I recognize that the only difference with me is that I'm looking at this unfolding differently than someone who has worries about it. But that's fine; all it means is that I'm at peace all the time, and that I have nothing I need to do or worry about other than whatever is happening at any given moment. It helps that externally, my life is very simple right now, but I'm using this time to let the bright permeate my awareness in preparation for when I return to more worldly obligations such as my business, once my parental leave benefits run out.