All that has been, all that is, all that will be, you are

By Enza Vita, author of Always Already Free – What is Enlightenment and What Does It Matter Anyway?

The most important point I can make is that you are, naturally so, and

that you exist right now, effortlessly. Can there be any doubts about

that? Awareness is, and as awareness, you are not only aware, but

brightly present. You are awareness, awareness-ing, in every moment.

Every search, however broad or knowledgeable, comes back to this

simple seeing. Your mind wants to continue the search for the truth

because the mind cannot grasp the simplicity of it all, so it clings to the

idea that it is a separate entity. The mind generates questions in order to

validate its own existence. You must be extremely clear in your direct

seeing of this.

This is so simple and so basic that it continues to be habitually

overlooked. As humans, we tend to pile complexities on things that we do

not understand. The mind likes to form puzzles to unlock. The mind

creates concepts like time, future, past, striving, questions, and obstacles.

But the answer is so simple. You are awareness in this present moment,

and awareness is all that there is.

The true essence of your being is embodying itself moment to moment,

becoming the flow of life, moving through your body and mind just as it

moves through the bird, the tree, the rock.

You come from no-thing, an ocean of pure potentiality, into being. You

think you are just one of the waves, a short life that ends crashing on the

shore. As a wave you live and you die. Eventually you crash upon the

shore and there is the end of your existence. But the truth is that you are

the ocean itself; you create the waves. Each wave is your present life

story, which is only a part of you. Yes, the story of who you are will

eventually crash against the shore, but you, as the ocean, remain. When

you realize the truth, everything remains the same, except that you no

longer believe in a false idea.

Enza Vita is the current editor of InnerSelf magazine, the former editor of

Woman Spirit and Health & Wellbeing magazines, and the author of Always

Already Free – What is Enlightenment and What Does It Matter

Anyway?.Based on Enza’s own experience, Always Already Free, de-mystifies

ancient spiritual teachings and practices from east and west and reveals that

spiritual enlightenment is not a faraway dream, but the ever-present reality

always available here and now.