The simple feeling of being is inescapable. It is not something that needs to be created or generated or sustained or practiced. It is what is here already.

As it is sometimes said in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the end point of the entire spiritual path is also the starting point, for what we’re looking for is actually exactly where we find ourselves already. And where is that? Right here in the simple feeling of being.

What all the teachings are about is the simple feeling of being. What everything else is or might be is way downstream from the primal fact of being. All the elaborations, the seeming complexities of our human lives… without the simple feeling of being, there is none of that, right? What we think of as the complex nature of our lives, all of it just pure existence, the miracle of life itself.

The simple yet most profound feeling of all. Being.

Let yourself revel in that. No need to think about it, just feel it. I mean, you can think about it. You can analyze it, try to make sense of it. But it’s not necessary. Just absolutely enjoy it, the ceaseless flow of being. And as you do, see that this is what........

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