“Re-examine what you believe you know about yourself. I live in transience, and since there is no permanent separate self, I can never be what I was in the past, I can only experience how I am in these very moments, again, and again.” – Unknown
I often find myself wondering exactly how much I can be certain of what I know about me. Recently, going back into my belief systems about Zen, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shamanism, I am beginning to see nothing but a constant flux of accepting, clinging, and rejecting, concept after concept, all in search of the very process that is seeking. In speaking with others, this appears true for many of us journeying the “spiritual” and religious” paths. A separate conditioned-self, seeking to become a better, improved, and admired separate conditioned-self. I’m starting to see that only the genuine self, with all its contents, can only be engaged in these passing moments. For whatever reason, there is a feeling of relief and gratitude in the knowing.
Stop for a moment today and feel exactly how you are experiencing your experience.
Bryan Wagner
Visions of a People's Dharma 
The soul is testing me
during the day
with the memories
to my past
at night
with dreams
in which i
on stage
in the inner drama
play a supporting role
i am time
in the past
the future
of expectations
in the here and now
the knowloedge
trained
about the sketches
the dogmas
the tenets
the philosophies
the guess
a transcendence
the spiritual
towards as a human
to a higher one
separate
wonderful
autonomous
pure of pure reason
(real self)
the spirit
and the soul
are in man
not under compulsion
by the spiritually powerful
their traditions
their rites
their beliefs
from out there
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There are only these moments of direct noticing, everything else is a story about something. Take care my friend.
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It gives me
the subjective instant
the one with someone else
with the science
with the spiritual tradition
has nothing to do
history
refers to the experiences
the human
from the past
in my future
becomes the last word
from me in the void
end up
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This is so comforting – to be still and accept ourselves as we are right in this present moment, ignoring mistakes and regrets off the past as well as the striving in the future. Just to be right now.
Thank you, Bryan!
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It is comforting, that acceptance of exactly how I am. I believe living a genuine life starts with being exactly how I am in these moments. Take care my friend.
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I look to see if I can edit someone’s comments, although for me, off works as well as of. Isn’t it interesting how that works? Big smile.
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Lol 😀
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Ooops – should be ‘of’ and not ‘off’. Will you edit that for me Bryan? Ty
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