Sunset Wednesday
Lee van Lear post on Morning Five sub stack today:
The fundamental condition: The path towards light
I am an inhabitant of this body.
I dwell within it,
deeply rooted in its nature,
so much so that it is easy to think that we are one thing,
yet it is more difficult to sense it
because my awareness always separates itself from my sensation
to one degree or another.
And this is the moment when I bring them together
here in the same place with one another
and I allow the very gentle and intelligent movement of the breathing
to help bring in an energy that will bind them together
in the single state that they actually inhabit together.
It's useful to come to the bottom of the breath and begin there.
To rest in stillness.
And then to breathe in the revolution of substance
that takes place as the air meets the blood.
The involution of substance where substances are taken into the body,
which are needed in every moment to support it.
Every cell and the molecule alive
with the energy that the breathing brings to them.
Every muscle in the body participating by letting go a bit more
so that it is more relaxed to receive this goodness.
And each breath that I take in can help to remind me
that in this life, which leads towards death
I have the opportunity to be a creature
aligned with the forces of this planet
and of life itself.
Not a creature aligned with politics,
or science, or religion,
or the humanities,
or business, or money.
Not a being aligned with greed, or ownership,
or despair, or exhilaration.
A being aligned with being itself,
which comes before all things,
here and now,
as the fundamental condition within my sensation.
This fundamental condition of being within sensation
grows countless roots within me.
I find that every cell is touched by the tip of a rootlet
that brings it what it needs to work for being here.
And for now, dwelling in the gravity of this planet,
I sense the tip of every rootlet as it reaches down.
I begin to understand that in some mysterious way
that cannot truly be explained
there is sorrow here in the atmosphere of the planet,
and equally there is joy.
And as I breathe in,
they are part of the fundamental condition of this life,
which is moving towards death.
And that although they seem different,
they are partners in life and being
that blend here in the body
to bring a greater life than can be known with the mind or the body.
So I become more sensitive to feeling now
and without touching or manipulating any part of it,
I see how sensation and sorrow are the fundamental condition of being.
And I see how being and joy are a fundamental condition of their own,
equally present, equally needed here.
And now the energy, the feet and the hands,
is more aligned with being.
The solar plexus has reassumed its rightful role
as the governor of the lower energies in the body
and the connection to this planet Earth.
And the heart begins to remind me of the way
in which it governs the upper portion of the body.
And the breath begins to remind me of the way
it connects the heart and the solar plexus
in order to help unify this being in sensation.
I sense the wholeness of the body.
I sense sorrow and joy here together in this life which leads towards death.
And I very quietly celebrate the presence of glory
in the stillness that gathers itself here.
Dwelling in this fundamental condition for a moment,
I see more clearly through the sensation itself
the way in which it feeds the roots of being
and deposits substances here
which will be needed in this day
to support the life and truth and being of other creatures
to whom I have a sacred being duty
Today I hope, by acting while rooted in this fundamental condition
to bring real intelligence to my life
to bring compassion
to manifest the goodness that I have been given
and to work to bring love into the world
here where it belongs
so that it can live more fully in all beings
and in everything that takes place under the light, the sun
and for this I need help
therefore I say Lord have mercy
In relationship to the fundamental condition of this being,
here and now
I say, Lord have mercy.
