Resolving
the Story
If you are waiting for the contents of the story to resolve
in such a way that you will have ever lasting peace, you
are going to be deeply disappointed. The thought stories
are ever changing; sometimes there is happiness, sometimes
sadness or joy and then fear. The story is on autopilot;
no-one is driving your life. Its a part of the unfolding
spectacle of what is. If you are looking for the story to
get fixed in such a way that you will have permanent
anything, you are setting out on a hopeless journey. The
story has no ending. Its just happening, like the seasons
or rotation of the planets.
Peace, however, is in this primary experience of being
right here - these sounds, these feelings, and this body
right here. Find out for yourself what is more real -
imagination or what is happening right now? Relax into the
actual, this primary Realness you feel right now. This
sense of being – this primary Realness, or presence is more
real than stories. It has a sense of quiet and peace to it
– explore that feeling and you will notice it is the ever
present background of all experiencing.
Entering the dream door of thought stories is secondary
experiencing; a simulation. Even that is happening in
primary Realness, or Reality. But we can talk about it as
secondary experiencing for the sake of analogy, to point to
that illusory sense of separation from Reality.
Relax into this effortless primary awareness of actuality;
this room, this seeing right here. Let the stories arise
unobstructed, while you rest in what is Real. There is no
way of controlling or changing anything in the story. This
does not mean you can’t have peace, what you are in reality
is outside any story, peacefully watching. The peace we are
talking about is so basic it does not need the story to be
certain way, for it to be. It is, everything else comes and
goes. It is this living Reality right here – you are
looking at it now, feeling it now, seeing it now.
This is Reality. Rest in the Real let the imaginary play of
its own as you watch, indestructible, from the diamond
seat. Once you realise it is simply this obviously
available actuality you are always occupying, confidence
and ease effortlessly arises.