Presencing absence
When we are hard on ourselves, or hard on others, isn’t it interesting how it is those small moments that define character? Most of the time we are fine, everything is alright, things are calm. Even in war, soldiers spend most of their time in tedious inactivity punctuated by bursts of frightening violence. Cities are not in a constant state of crime. Governments work perfectly fine most of the time. It is the small aberrations that we notice and these then colour everything.
When you become aware of how much fear you don’t have, how much violence ISN’T happening, how much struggle ISN’T going on, you can take on fear, violence and struggle in context without a story that your whole life is like that. It’s like becoming aware of how much space there is inside an atom or between stars.
Presence is fine. Presencing absence is awe inspiring. We are mostly made of space.
Hey Chris. Funny how physics knocks on the door of this. A Roshi might mention/has shown that manifesting the activity of zero IS manifesting true presence.