Today’s topic is interesting to me. Interesting in what it is, and interesting in how it came to be. It chose me more than I chose it.
Two of the things I did today were clean my bathroom and design a book cover for my collection of short stories. In both cases I didn’t think much about the task before doing it. I just kind of began and allowed it to unfold before me. There was very little thought of how long it was taking me or how much I’d done or how much was left. The doing got done because it was simply what I was doing.
And I didn’t recognize it as anything to even comment on until I sat down this afternoon to blog. I asked myself what my practice would be for today, and I saw that I’d already been practicing something very special.
What’s so special or important about this? Yesterday’s post was about two possible paradigms–one of obligation and one of opportunity. But in each of these tasks today, I was conscious of neither paradigm.
It’s hard for me to know if what I’m experiencing right now is even translating through these words. I feel free, I feel a flow. There’s no feeling of motivation or purpose or meaning. And there’s no resistance either. It’s like when I drop a stone to the ground. The stone doesn’t want to fall, it doesn’t choose to fall, it doesn’t resist falling; it simply falls.
Looking back on those two tasks today, it seems like I aligned myself with some force, just like the force of gravity pulled the stone to the ground. Was it the force of Presence? Was it a state of being that took care of the doing? Perhaps when I come from a being state of presence, paradigms are irrelevant.
It’s not a choice, it’s not an obligation, it’s not an opportunity…it’s simply what I do.
For the rest of the day, I will be aware of this flow that comes from being present.
