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Boundless Ordinariness

If you gently explore your experience in this moment you will notice that there is a sense of ordinariness. You might be quietly sitting, thoughts are happening and there are some feelings in your body. Its all very simple what’s going on in our experience, actually. If you feel into this moment in a very simple way, you will find a very basic sort of peace. Its nothing glamorous, not particularly spiritual or mystical, its just this sense being. Its very ordinary.

If you let yourself explore this ordinariness you will find that its not only your ordinariness, it is the very same ordinariness of the cup of tea you might be sipping, or the wind blowing or maybe a bit of litter beside the road. Its nothing special, yet it is alive. It has realness, vividness.

This is Reality, just this sense of ordinariness now. What, apparently, separates us from being satisfied with this are thought stories about a world we imagine and character we imagine ourselves to be. What is Real however, is just this. The feelings, the sounds the things you see. Just that.

In fact the thought stories are appearing in this ordinariness. They are quite harmless in and of themselves – like a television playing in the background while you are cooking. You could get involved in the soap opera playing on the TV while you wait for the water to boil, and that’s fun for a while but then you get back to cutting the vegetables, while its continues to run in the background. Similarly, you could look at the thought stories more closely and get involved in them or you could just rest in this simple ordinary space in which they are happening while they chatter away on their own. Its very basic, and peaceful.

As you begin to notice that this ordinary peace of being is more real than your imagination, the more sense of humour you are able to bring to the thought stories. Whilst the soaps are entertaining, it’s chopping the vegetables and making sure the water doesn’t boil over that’s really important. And while you might get engrossed in a love story on the screen for a while, you rarely let it spoil your dinner if the two split up.

When it is seen that this basic peaceful ordinariness is the flavour of the empty witnessing presence, and that it is the very same ordinary every day awareness that helps make the shopping list or the dinner; and that it is is in fact already empty of any self, clarity begins to arise.

No need to become special or attain something or have extraordinary mystical experiences that will somehow last forever (good luck with that). Clear seeing from this perspective is actually the union of ordinariness and nothingness. All this plain stuff is going on every day in a very normal way but for no-one - certainly no-one special. There is a lot room to breathe, to relax and be alive in the most basic sense.

Resting in this ordinariness we discover that there is a quality of boundlessness to it – spaciousness and freedom. There is also the certainty and peace that comes from not having to create or attain a special state of mind or realisation, which would fade leaving us low and confused. It is discovered that the boundless ordinariness of Being is in fact luminous and available always right here in our own kitchen.