Experiences of Being

What is emerging of late is that I have been getting “lost” in experience. It is reminiscent of “time flies when you’re having fun” except that it has been much more frequent and there has been a rapid oscillation between experience and then noticing that I was just lost in “it”. There appears to be no “I” in the experience. Rather, the experience is noticed after the fact and there is then a re-cognition of the lack of identity during the experience, which is really no surprise given the immediate nature of experiencing. But what is new is the sense that whatever it is that holds identity in place lets go and simply allows experience to occur. It feels like what life or consciousness desires is access to experience, here in this place, through portals such as us and that it uses every available avenue to do just that. But in one case, it was not just me. I was doing a “What is present?” practice with someone and there was a mutual experience of free-flowing dancing in the expanse of imagination, one leading and one following. We experienced exchanging the roles of leader and follower, which began to accelerate back and forth so fast that, in an instant, leader and follower were merged. Both of us were gone. There was no I and no We. After the fact, it seemed that dance was simply occurring, as if consciousness had been set free to enjoy itself.

 

On the active side of this inter-play, my partner and I did set up the parameters in which this experience could happen by choosing to get on a call and do the practice. In our lives we do choose how to modify our environment and how to put ourselves into situations where we are most likely to enjoy ourselves. Thus, from this perspective, it appears that enjoyment is one of the activities by which Being accesses earthly experience, through us, and that we are actively engaged in creating that opening. Other avenues might include curiosity, gratitude and love. We, as particular aspects of identity, can set up the circumstances, initiate a flow, then stand aside and be overtaken by life experiencing itself through us.

In a way, we are the experiences of Being, individually and collectively.

2 thoughts on “Experiences of Being”

    1. It is certainly possible that one can get lost in suffering, but it is clearly not what we are innately drawn to. To find our most natural states, I always tend to look at young children. They are typically curious, they explore, are delighted in their discoveries and love sharing those delights. Thus I surmise that there are preferences in what consciousness is seeking to experience and that suffering is not one of them.

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