Everything Celebrates Being

Because the experience of just being is so quiet, transparent, we give our attention exclusively to content and overlook our self, thereby losing touch with the peace, joy and fulfilment that are being’s nature. Sooner or later, after searching the world for this lost peace or happiness, we discover the essential amness of our self and turn back towards the world again. What is the essential nature of anything we encounter? Always ‘it is’. Before thought and perception qualify it, ‘it is’ refers to just the fact of being. Everything shines with, celebrates being. The amness of our self and the isness of things – are just first- and second-person perspectives of the same being. When being is clothed in thoughts and feelings, we call it ‘the mind’. Clothed in sensations, we call it ‘the body’. Clothed in perceptions, we call it ‘the world’. But it’s all the same being, and we are that.