Life
as the Mirror
When living arises as a direct encounter with Reality, you
find that it has a mirror-like quality, a deep,
unfathomable mysteriousness that is quiet and endless; but
there is also dynamism, an energetic quality as phenomena
bubbles up. Everything that happens is reflected perfectly
in the mirror of awareness. This is living life as the
mirror.
As the mirror you can celebrate the reflections, the raw
bubbling energy is the stuff of the mirror. Yet, the truth
of the mirror itself is unfathomable by the reflections.
The mirror is deeply mysterious, like the vast reaches of
space. It’s always there - its living essence is what lets
everything happen. The surface of the mirror and the
reflections are inseparable, yet the mirror is always
still, clear and infinitely capable of reflecting. The
mirror never holds on onto anything, it also never resists
anything. In this sense the mirror is pure unconditional
love for whatever arises.
Paying attention to the mirror of Being, we discover that
it has always been this way, and that it has a sameness
that extends everywhere where there is Being. The beingness
of all things, it turns out, is identical. It is the same
clear, radical realness of things everywhere. Its all the
same Reality, continuous and whole.
This wholeness is wide open and unconditional. It welcomes
the messiness of the world – it
is
the very messiness of things. Its the radiant raw miracle
of messiness before it is divided up by thoughts and
concepts, which pretend to evaluate and judge, but really
just make up fantastic tales about the mess.
It is seen that the mess is wonderful. It is life free of
any rigid positions, dogma or the fundamentalism of
concepts.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." - Alan Dean
Foster