Extract from Fragments of Being – by Mike Jenkins
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This is the eternal discovery. Discovering that being is
being all that arises is this living realisation. It’ so easy
to settle and get comfortable with understanding or
clarity, to make a cosy bed in the ideas of oneness, the
phrases, the concepts. This misses the aliveness of
discovering that all settling, all concepts, all conclusions
are simply another way to comfort the me, to placate
the seeker.
The real adventure is seeing again and again the
completeness of every moment, of every scream, of
every flash of anger, of every swell of sadness.. To see
the completeness, the holiness in the heaviness of
depression, the light in the darkness of being lost, of
being scared… this radical freedom never leaves you, is
by your side as the pain, the suffering, the light in the
sky, the movement of breath, the dancing of fear, is by
your side as your side and everything that happens here.
You simply cannot get being wrong. Even ‘getting
being wrong’ or feeling ‘this is not being’ is being, being
that. This is the good news. There is nothing that is not
being, nothing that is not freedom. Being, freedom,
wholeness is dressing up as pain, suffering, darkness,
hurt. Wholeness is dressing up as seeking wholeness,
waiting for you to see it parading all around you. It
shouts out from the roadside, from the carpet, the
horror of suffering, the pain of depression, of
loneliness, of desperation… shouting out as the fear of
death, as the joy of falling in love, singing as the flowers
on the riverbank, dancing as the giggles of children,
swirling through the streets as a carnival of diverse
such-ness.
It is the loudest whisper you’ll ever hear, the softest slap
in the face, the most loving kick in the pants that ever
happens. You ARE what you seek, I am it, you are it,
this is it!