The Timeless Freshness of Being

T.S. Eliot wrote, ‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.’ Our exploration begins with being and ends with being, yet we taste it as if for the first time because being exists outside time. Meditation is never boring, always fresh. Boredom is merely a state the mind superimposes on pure being’s freshness, just as expectation is superimposed on its ever-presence. Be sensitive to any expectation left from your search for happiness. Nothing special is going to happen. What is special is already present – being shines quietly in the midst of experience, at peace, lacking nothing, free. When striving subsides, that for which we searched shines naturally. Boredom pulls us into the past, expectation into the future. Between these stands being’s vertical dimension. ‘Now’ is the portal through which we pass from time into eternity.

From event 21 March - 28 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 21–28 March 2025

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