This weekend, I spent 2 days with some close friends at Dillon Beach in Northern California. We shared a simple two-story house close to the beach. The food was outstanding, the conversation was inquisitive, and the hot tub was soothing. We took a few walks down to the Pacific Ocean, which always opens up big questions for me as I look out and observe the infinite nature of our world. I began to ask myself this question: Where do I begin?
As I march through this life, and learn bit by fiery bit, to tame my ego, it seems clear that I am not the chattering voice that wants to control everything. I am not the one that demands “Look at me!” Rather I am that inner voice, the observer, the listener, the one that responds rather than reacts. I am the one that I discover each and every day that I meditate. I am the one that can share a moment with another, and not talk, not demand, not need, and feel in-tune and connected.
So I thought. I began to question this belief.
Is that me? Is any of it, me?
Maybe I am giving myself too much credit (something for which my ego is very proficient). Perhaps I am nothing more than a spark of consciousness, as I do have an awareness of this one called Jay. Maybe all that inner voice and observer labeling is nothing more than a different aspect of ego. Perhaps I am nothing but a composite amalgam resulting from the forces that have weighed upon me from the beginning of my earthly existence. Where I live, who I spend my time with, what I spend my time doing, what country I am in, these seem to be the things that have forged me into me. It has been, for the great majority, a choice-less existence. Perhaps I am nothing more than a spirit inside a body suit that has been shaped and tempered by innumerable forces, both gross and subtle.
I believe so.
What I am now seeing clearly is that life has been far more mechanical, and predictable than I had ever imagined. I had a vision of all of us as machines, plodding through life, all doing the same things. This shift in awareness is infinitely freeing. It feels like I am a goldfish that has been pulled out of the water so I can look back and see that I have been in a fish tank all this time, and there is a whole new world to be explored. This new world shows up as an invitation to freely think outside of the box and uninhibitedly create. I can do what I want, and create the type of life I have envisioned, for by understanding this dynamic, I am freed of it.
I began at birth, and from that point, I stopped, and life happened. Now freed of that construct, I can choose to co create a reality based on spirit and flow. This is exciting. This feels fundamental. This shatters the perception of free will. Who among us is really free? This is a complete shift in context that will take some getting used to.
Where do I begin? Perhaps I don’t, or didn’t begin. Something began, but it wasn’t me. Perhaps I am but a channel through which energy flows. Perhaps my roles are to be sensitive to the energy, and flow with it, and not resist it, and breathe. What will a life look like without the fear and struggle? I don’t know, but I am willing to find out.
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