LIFE-BEING-PRESENCE


The great gift of LIFE

The great gift of 2 BEINGS

Finally...PRESENCE


We begin with the most basic question of all: why is there something rather than nothing? How is it that we find ourselves in this great mystery called LIFE? Life is, and we are, that is, we consciously experience ourselves as a BEING. In considering our being, we also realize that we are utterly interconnected to all life, including all other beings. This connection is what i call a sense of PRESENCE. 

In the haiku the allusion is to 2 beings that create a new presence, a new being, but it need not be that...any and all beings create multiple presences all the time! 

So there is  LIFE all round, we realize life in our BEING, and we come to feel the connection between life and being as a kind of PRESENCE.


The most practical application of this 3-fold dynamic of life, being, and presence is to bask in, enjoy, wonder, and feel the life-being-presence connection through contemplation/meditation. 

One version of this contemplative move is Dan Siegel's Wheel of Awareness meditation (i would put the link here, but it will probably change over time...better to google his name/meditation to find it). Briefly, imagine a wheel with attention at the hub and spokes representing all of our senses and relationships as the spokes (the many kinds of presence). In the wheel of awareness meditation, one sits with each spoke for a time and ends by turning attention in on itself to contemplate the nature of being (or what i would call the interconnection between LIFE-BEING-PRESENCE).




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