On my walk today I was surrounded by the silence of nature. There is a level of silence amongst the birds chirping or the wind blowing that is sacred. A stillness and peace that we can seldom replicate in an artificial setting. It made me realise that our lives as humans is full of constant doing. There seems to be some purpose or action attached to our existence, or at least that is what we have come to believe.
Humans can’t help but engage in thinking, reacting and making sense of things. We are concerned with finding purpose in what we do, who we are and how we live. But what if the purpose was simply embracing nothingness?
Many years ago I could not have entertained that notion, because I used to associate nothingness with darkness, void and apathy. There was no beauty or meaning that was attached to nothingness and that scared me. But I am beginning to wonder what if there is depth to nothingness? What if we spend time sitting with it?
Nothingness is a state of no thing, no distraction, no illusion, no story, no theory, no meaning, no analysis, no doing. No thing is freedom, a type of freedom that we are to afraid to even explore.
As I stand still amongst the trees, I notice how they grow through the nothingness that is around them. Growing and being as they are, irrespective of what meaning we attach to them.
I don’t need to know the answers anymore, I just want to feel the truth and embrace it without fear. I am not searching for certainty; I am just hoping that I can let go of every thing that makes me afraid of no thing.
Love Always
M
Souloom™ 