By Leo Babauta
The boy awoke one morning to a startling discovery — that the whole lot he believed was not the reality. He realized that the best way he’d been seeing issues was just one approach of seeing issues. His view of issues was not absolute however tentative.
What he noticed this morning is that the whole lot was made up of a luminous cloudlike substance, an power. Together with himself. Together with the air and wind and lightweight. Luminous and stuffed with surprise.
His physique was made up of this power — there was no distinction between inside himself and out. Even his feelings had been types of it — anger, disappointment, love, worry, grief, frustration, loneliness, all had been made up of this luminous, wondrous, cloudlike power.
The power was all the identical all over the place, nevertheless it was swirlying and cloudlike and altering in type. His physique, for instance, might need appeared like a separate factor from the whole lot else, nevertheless it was always shifting like a cloud, respiratory out and emanating elements of itself to the remainder, taking in new elements from the remainder.
This discovery of the luminous power making up all of actuality … it modified his life that day. He felt related to the whole lot round him, as a result of it was not separate from him.
He was not held again by something. He may do issues he was afraid of earlier than, as a result of he noticed that worry was simply the identical power as the whole lot else, stunning and scrumptious. His previous behavior of avoidance melted away, as he had no troublesome emotions to keep away from — all was luminous power.
He was not a slave to his addictions, as a result of the craving that precipitated the addictions was merely a type of this wondrous power. He may merely really feel the craving, and find it irresistible as he cherished the whole lot else.
He not felt fearful about being sufficient, as a result of there isn’t a worry of inadequacy if you end up part of the luminous power of the whole lot. He not needed to fear about getting love, as a result of he was part of the love of the whole lot.
He was liberated. And so he determined to liberate all different beings by sharing his story of awakening to luminous actuality.
