Aanwezigheid is geen specifieke staat, ervaring of gevoel. Als je een moment van vrijheid, vrede of een goed gevoel ervaart, kan de mind die specifieke staat, ervaring of dat gevoel associëren met aanwezigheid. De mind reduceert de staat, ervaring of het gevoel tot een herinnering. Het wordt gereduceerd tot een gedachte. Wanneer dat specifieke moment voorbij is, probeert de gedachte die verloren staat, ervaring of dat gevoel opnieuw te creëren of terug te vinden. Dit is hoe het zoeken (“the searching”) zichzelf in stand houdt. De gedachte aan het verleden zoekt de gedachte aan een toekomstige gebeurtenis. Gedachte jaagt op gedachte. Zie je dat het zoeken puur conceptueel is?
Aanwezigheid is geen specifieke staat, ervaring of gevoel. Het is meer als de opening waardoor elke staat, ervaring, elk gevoel en alles wat bestaat, ontstaat. Er is geen manier om een huidige opening te “her-creëren” of “terug te keren” naar een opening. Er is alleen deze opening—nu—en wat er ook doorheen komt. De gedachte: “Ik moet terug naar die vrijheid die ik ooit voelde”, kan door de opening komen. Als die gedachte wordt geloofd, gaat het zoeken door. Als de gedachte wordt gezien voor wat het werkelijk is—een gedachte die ontstaat in de opening—wordt het niet geloofd. Het mag er eenvoudigweg zijn. In dat zien is er geen zoeken.
Uit: Reflections of the One Life by Scott Kiloby
April 15th
Presence is an opening
Presence is not a particular state, experience, or feeling. If you experience a moment of freedom, peace, or a good feeling, the mind may associate that particular state, experience, or feeling with presence. The mind reduces the state, experience, or feeling to a memory. It reduces it to thought. When that particular event passes, thought seeks to recreate or find that lost state, experience, or feeling. This is how seeking perpetuates itself. Thought is thought of the past event is seeking the thought of some future event. Thought is chasing thought. Do you see that the search is purely conceptual?
Presence is not any particular state, experience, or feeling. It is more like the opening through which each and every state, experience, feeling, and everything else arises. There is no way to “recreate” or “get back to” a present opening. There is only this opening—now—and whatever is coming through. The thought, “I need to get back to that freedom I once felt” may be coming through the opening. If that thought is believed, the seeking continues. If the thought is seen for what it really is—a thought arising in the opening—it isn’t believed. It is simply allowed to be. In that seeing, there is no seeking.
Omdat de lucht zo volmaakt blauw is Stromen tranen uit mijn ogen… (~ The Beatles)
Ik ben, ik adem, ik besta, Ik zie, ik luister, ik besef. Als ik naar buiten kijk, lijk “ik“ begrensd… Als ik naar binnen luister, ken ik geen eind, geen tijd…
Omdat ik me gehoord voel – spreek ik, Omdat ik me ongehoord voel – brul ik, Omdat ik toegesproken ben – luister ik, Omdat ik me geliefd voel – danst mijn hart, in resonantie, Omdat ik liefheb – ontvouwt zich het Universum In triljoenen trillende sprankelingen.
Ik heb gekeken en geluisterd, en geluisterd, En mij verwonderd hoe de wereld is of lijkt, Hoe lusteloos en aan het beeld gekluisterd, Met ingehouden adem, hopeloos te klein…
Verblind door de illusie, schouwspel, Maya, Mayaanse spel met bal, met dood, met vuur, Zijn wij geen medescheppers van ons wereld, Gaia, De wonderlijke, tijdloze Natuur?
Er is zoveel gebeurd, ik sliep, was ziek, liet steken vallen… Nu zijn mijn ogen open, en mijn hart. We zijn terug, we passen niet in mallen, Het leven in opmars – ter zee, te lucht, ter Aard.
Alert, gewaar en hart-verwarmend, kloppend Met sterrenpuls, met stralen van de Zon, Aanschouwd, doorzien door nieuwe, oude ogen… En wordt steeds lichter, breder horizon…
(fragment uit het boek Reflections of the One Life door Scott Kiloby)
Stilte is de natuurlijke staat. Dat betekent niet dat we altijd stil moeten zijn of dat we moeten proberen geluid te vermijden of een rustige mind voor elkaar te krijgen. We hoeven niets te doen om stilte te erkennen als de natuurlijke staat, behalve opmerken dat stilte er altijd en allang is. Het is al de natuurlijke staat. Het is overal. Overal om je heen. Het is in jou. Jij bent het.
Geen enkel geluid is gescheiden van de stilte die het doet ontstaan. Als je de stilte niet kunt ervaren, merk dan gewoon op wat er is. Als er geluid ontstaat, merk dan het geluid op. Merk op dat het op natuurlijke wijze ontstaat en verdwijnt zonder dat je het hoeft te beoordelen, te verwelkomen, eraan te ontsnappen of het hoeft af te wijzen. Merk de stilte op die er is voordat het geluid ontstaat, terwijl het ontstaat en nadat het verdwijnt. Als er luide muziek speelt, merk dan de muziek op en merk de stilte op die eromheen hangt. Gesprekken, muziek, explosies en andere geluiden ontstaan uit stilte. Deze dingen zijn stilte in een andere vorm.
De volgende keer dat je een geluid hoort, merk dan op dat jij de stilte bent die ernaar luistert. Jij bent de stilte die hier is voordat het geluid ontstaat, terwijl het klinkt en wanneer het verdwijnt. Er is niets dat je hoeft te doen om stilte te herkennen als de natuurlijke staat, behalve opmerken dat jouw essentie stilte is.
(vertaald door Anna Krasko)
Silence
Silence is the natural state. That does not mean that we have to remain quiet all the time or that we must try to avoid sound or bring about a quiet mind. We don’t have to do anything to recognize silence as the natural state except notice that silence is always and already here. It is already the natural state. It is everywhere. It is all around you. It is within you. You are it.
No sound is separate from the silence that gives birth to it. If you cannot sense the silence, just notice what is here. If sound arises, notice the sound. Notice that it arises and falls naturally without any need for you to judge it, welcome it, escape it, or reject it. Notice the silence that is here before the sound arises, while it is arising, and after it falls. If loud music is playing, notice the music and notice the silence that surrounds it. Conversations, music, explosions and other sounds arise from silence. These things are silence in another form.
The next time you hear a sound, notice that you are the silence that is listening to it. You are the silence that is here before the sound arises, while it is sounding, and when it is gone. There is nothing that you need to do to recognize silence as the natural state except notice that your very essence is silence.
“Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence” — Rainer Maria Rilke
“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. All great discoveries are made in this way.” — Albert Einstein
Our mission as human beings is to find and know the hidden, the universal soul.
Thepresence of the eternal, a timeless universal consciousness, unlimited, boundless and almost inexpressible, somehow touching all our lives, somehow weaving an extraordinary intelligence through life.
Something never seen, but always known inside the conscious silence.
Something always providing us with intuition, an inner poetry, a whisper in the wind that touches every star and every human life.
A poetry of insight helping us know the presence of the Source, generous and providential like sunlight in a summer garden.
Like intelligent and conscious light becoming life, universal consciousness is expressing itself as our living human form and providing us with conscious awareness.
And a new contemporary spirituality is emerging that recognizes universal consciousness as the primary element in the universe not matter.
We’re a spacious universal consciousness appearing as separate human beings.
Tuning in to this universal consciousness, the conscious silence inside us, helps us be more receptive to intuition.
Those sudden and spontaneous inner promptings from the universal that are often precisely appropriate and useful to our current circumstances.
That hunch we might get about whether a particular choice is appropriate, the sudden hint that something we’ve lost is in an unexpected place.
Intuition is the spontaneous and silent voice of the universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness trying to help us navigate our life.
Providing spontaneous insights and sudden inspirations that have helped human beings through the ages find new understanding and create new music and art.
We can’t see this universal field of consciousness and haven’t yet developed the sensitive tools required to make it visible, but we can make visual expressions of our intuitive impressions of this field.
We can reveal it with art.
Visual fields, arrays, webs and networks created with digital art tools can hint at the unseen, underlying connectedness that binds the universe together into one coherent whole.
Something hidden exists in all our lives, and with digital art software we can now make our intuitive realizations of this hidden universal consciousness visible.
“Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know” — Rick Rubin
With art we can reveal our intuitions of the unseen, the underlying field of universal consciousness.
Art by the Author 2024, model photo Icons8 Unsplash, landscape photo Ricardo Gomez Angel, Unsplash
And for writers, intuitive poetry helps record the inner flow of insights and metaphor emerging from the universal source inside all of us, the eternal, the Tao.
We can see writing poetry as part of a personal journey of self discovery with spontaneous insights and sudden intuitions written down, maybe scribbled into a personal notebook.
We can allow our personal creativity to occupy a large and important space at the heart of our life.
Every day we can find time to pause, go deeper, and find the inner center of ourselves.
Know an inner connection to the conscious universe.
Realize the importance of a life centered around our own inner journey.
A life that has plenty of time and space for silence and inner healing.
A life with a conscious inner center.
Rather than creating consciousness, our human brain can be thought of as an antennatuning in to universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness we can become more aligned to, in sync with, when we focus our attention inwardly, into the deep inner core of ourselves.
A universal consciousness the Native American Lakota and Algonquin referred to as the Great Mystery or Great Spirit and many other traditions through the centuries have created their own names and descriptions.
Art by the Author 2022, model photo Myron Edwards Unsplash
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home” — Australian Aboriginal Proverb
We’re living in a time when insights from the ancient intuitive wisdom traditions Taoism, Buddhism and the Hindu Vedanta, among others, are being joined with insights from the front edge of science to create a new synthesis, a new worldview fit for the 21st century.
The new worldview isn’t a completely new way of seeing, but rather an evolution of pre-modern wisdom traditions that accepts and values the many new insights now emerging from science.
For nearly a century, researchers in physics have known all the ‘material stuff’ in our universe to be clusters of tiny wave patterns in a field of nonlocal cosmic energy.
In more recent decades they’ve discovered the exquisite interwoven orchestration of cell biochemistry, revealing the presence of an extraordinary intelligence throughout the universe.
Art by the Author 2024: model photo Candice Picard, landscape photo Les Argonautes, both Unsplash
Our inspirations and insights emerge from an inexpressible source inside all of us, the universal consciousness.
A universal consciousness trying to help us navigate our life.
“The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes all things and brings them to fulfilment” — Tao Te Ching 41
“That which cannot be seen is called invisible. That which cannot be heard is called inaudible. That which cannot be held is called intangible.
By intuition you can see it, hear it, and feel it.
Then the unseen, unheard and untouched are present as one.”
— from the Tao Te Ching 14th verse translation/ interpretation by Wayne Dyer
We’re the living expressions of a universal consciousness that’s transforming itself into the precisely orchestrated biochemistry of our bodies, allowing us to live life as a human being.
A universal consciousness that has an extraordinary intelligence, not only orchestrating the astonishing complexity of the biochemistry of our body, but also bringing us intuition.
When we’re born, the conscious universe becomes a human being.
And every day we can find time to pause, pay attention to the silence inside us, and realize an inner connection to the conscious universe.
We can let our thinking dissolve away, and become aware of the silence of universal consciousness inside us.
We can focus our attention in this conscious silence and become more tuned in to the universal consciousness.
And we can more clearly sense the helpful intuitive insights and inspirations it’s always creating inside us.
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together…. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter” — Max Planck : German theoretical physicist : 1944
We’re living in a time when insights from the front edge of science are being joined with insights from the ancient intuitive wisdom traditions to create a new synthesis, a new worldview fit for the 21st century.
These intuitive insights reveal a different world than that proposed by our current mainstream world-view, in which our separate human brain is thought to somehow generate consciousness.
This shift in understanding is important because it helps us make different choices than we might have previously, choices that can change our life for the better.
And making this shift for ourselves has to do with finding the clarity and intuitive intelligence of the universal consciousness inside us, and allowing it to dissolve some of our habitual thinking.
A key change in our understanding of ourselves emerges from the realization that the cosmic energy field researched by physicists over the past century is also a field of consciousness.
A spacious universal consciousness exists inside all of us and throughout all space everywhere.
And the conscious silence we find inside us when we allow our thinking to dissolve away is the presence of this universal consciousness.
A spacious cosmic consciousness/intelligence is experiencing living as countless life-forms on all the planets that support life throughout the Universe.
A universal consciousness orchestrating photosynthesis and bringing sentient life into being everywhere.
A cosmic field-intelligence transforming itself into the choreographed streaming flows of cell biochemistry we see occurring within all living beings.
Our individual human life has meaning and value in a Universe where all life and consciousness are woven into one continuously evolving whole.
We’re all in this together, every moment of every day we’re connected into a universal organism of conscious awareness that’s evolving and changing as a consequence of our own life.
This view of ourselves as always woven into an evolving and intelligent whole is a long way from the previous way we saw life.
For many people in previous generations, life in an apparently indifferent, meaningless Universe with a brief time to be alive, meant a focus on wealth and attempts to dominate others.
The focus was always on separation.
We can maybe begin to see things differently.
We’re born into this world from within an enduring universal consciousness that’s always here, throughout the birth and death of all of us.
Everything we are while we’re alive is woven into this universal consciousness and remains there as part of the continuously evolving whole.
Life is meaningful and we’re all evolving toward being able to find the clarity and intelligence of cosmic consciousness within ourselves more easily than previously.
Our view of reality, our worldview, is often shaped by our preconceptions and assumptions, and can sometimes be an unconscious prism through which we see the world.
The separatist and materialist worldview that so characterized the 20th century has entered deep into mainstream thinking and acts as a sort of foundational myth, a way of structuring and filtering reality.
Materialist, separation thinking has been obscuring the reality that we’re always connected into a conscious and intelligent Universe.
Positive change is possible, but the most fundamental and difficult change needed is change in our awareness, a change in the way we see the world, each other and our planet.
And this change can begin to happen when we tune in to the conscious silence inside us and find for ourselves the intuitive realization that it’s everywhere, inside all of us.
We’re a spacious universal and cosmic consciousness appearing as a separate person.
A single conscious space exists inside all of us, a universal conscious awareness before it becomes thought.
And when we let our thinking dissolve away, we can become aware of this conscious silence inside us.
Unique personal experiences happen inside each one of us, but our conscious awareness isn’t separate from the whole of cosmic consciousness inside all of us.
And it’s our culturally biased separation from the underlying clarity and wisdom of cosmic consciousness that seems to be causing widespread distress.
And though we were probably never taught how to tune in to the inner conscious silence at school, and our culture seems in any case to regard intuition as irrational or unscientific, despite it being central to the creation of art, poetry and music, the scientific worldview could use a more intuitive perspective.
Scientific research during the last century has shown all ‘material stuff’ to be clusters of tiny wave patterns in a field of nonlocal cosmic energy.
This nonlocality, proven by experiment, reveals the foundational, underlying energy field throughout the Universe to be a single connective space joining everything everywhere into one unified whole.
Atoms and molecules are connected patterns of vibration in a universal cosmic field that’s everywhere.
Everything is dynamically woven into and correlated with everything else, revealing an apparent intelligent coherence.
How do we explain the unity and coherence of both living cell biochemistry and conscious awareness without assuming the existence of a structuring, arranging and choreographing field-intelligence throughout the Universe?
A universal cosmic intelligence that’s expressing itself through a spatial-orchestration-field both inside the brain, throughout our body and in all space everywhere?
And as we find the conscious silence that’s always present inside us, we can tune in to this universal field and intuitively realize it to be a single, connected space, a universal consciousness.
We can intuitively realize that the conscious awareness inside us is a universal consciousness everywhere, throughout all space and inside all life.
A universal intelligence exists everywhere in the Universe as a primary and fundamental field and it can sometimes seem to be guiding our personal evolution into an ever more conscious awareness of itself.
It guides us through our life with intuitive suggestions for how to proceed with various choices we may need to make, if we tune in to it.
Without this guidance and the sense of trusting in a generous and providential Universe that it helps bring about, we can perhaps begin to feel estranged from life and each other, and express our frustrations in the world in anger and unhappy feelings.
Despite the apparent chaos we can see happening around us, the underlying clarity and wisdom of cosmic consciousness always remains available to us.
We’re making the difficult transition into a new understanding of ourselves as being always woven into a conscious and intelligent Universe.
Mensbeleving in de natuur met Martijn van Staveren | Westerheide in Laren | 11 augustus 2024 – audio opname
Dit is een integrale audio-opname van de Mensbeleving in de natuur met Martijn van Staveren. Helaas is de audio-opname verre van ideaal. Het is goed genoeg om toch te plaatsen, dit vanwege de waardevolle inhoud die vele mensen op deze manier toch mee kunnen krijgen.
Luister, Alleen golven, wind en de stilte daartussenin… Het is een mooie dag, daar op het strand, onder de zon, op planeet Aarde, in een Melkweg… op weg… ergens naar toe Verder is het niks, Alleen kijken en beleven het moment van Nu, En elke Nu is bijzonder, schattig, mysterieus, kleurrijk, Spelend met licht en donker, Eindeloze trillingen van golfen en draaikolkjes, Steeds weer verschillend, Als bewustzijn…
Like a hidden flower of light, the silent whisper of a universal soul brings meaning, writing a poetry of silence into every moment, and when thought dissolves in dreamy trance, or we gaze sometimes across the midnight sky, we know we’re part of something larger than ourselves, something no words can ever say but every heart somehow knows, an intelligence that brings beauty to flowers and the honk of geese to winter skies, an endless song of silence joining every leaf and every human heart, the eternal becoming human for the brief duration of a life.
We’re here just a short while in this world and in every fleeting moment a poetry of light is gardening our heart, unfolding silent harmonies all across our endless inward sky with sentience, intelligence and meaning, a compass to steer our life helping us see more clearly, like we have new eyes to know life is larger than it seems, more beautiful than we can say in words, while every moment fades to memory like shadows fading into mist that lingers on an endless ocean.
The conscious silence brings something of its gentle grace to our reflective inner moments, revealing all the wisdom underneath the surface of the everyday, the knowing that can’t be said, the unwritten poetry blended through the conscious fabric of our world, the poetry of insight writing itself into the moment, the gentle intelligence of the universe breathing into our life, its silence whispering always in our heart.
Wij zijn geen poppen! Vertel het aan ieder-een, ik vertel het ook over-al…
We zijn onkundig, zo weinig wetend, als kinderen soms – zelfingenomen, we zijn wilde bloemen en bomen… Eigenwijze madeliefjes, paardenbloemen, die de zon en wind beminnen, sierlijke cikorei, de ogen vol hemel, vriendelijke klavertjes in allerlei kleuren, hangertjes van linde, trossen van vlieren…
We zijn geen poppen! We zijn geen zwarten, gelen, groenen, regenboog, blanken. We zijn geen Chinezen, Russen of Amerikanen… in Sri Lanka,
We zijn geen ADHD’ers, psychoten, mappen voor diagnoses… We zijn fonteinen, watervallen, draaikolken, beukenbossen en tuinen vol rozen…
We zijn wegen naar elkaar toe, bogen, ongekende mogelijkheden, bewustzijns nieuwe, oer-oude ogen…
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