' Simplicity '...

Have you noticed how simple life actually is when you are not living it completely through the veil of thought? It is so simple, so effortless. It is doing the laundry, pouring detergent into the washing machine. It is hearing the sound of the door to the machine slamming shut and the cycle starting. It is footsteps to the kitchen, pouring a glass of water, and the feel of cool water flowing down the throat, soothing the body. It is walking to the bathroom, using the toilet and washing the hands. It is the feel of water rushing over the fingers. It is drying off the hands.

It is breathing, smiling, frowning, driving, walking, talking, being. It is noticing thought and then not noticing thought. ‘This’ is life just living itself spontaneously. No one is bringing any of it about. It is simply happening now. The self that would try to understand this is also just a thought happening now. You do not bring the story of “you” about. It merely pops into your head spontaneously. When this is seen, all sense of being in control is seen to be illusory. In noticing this, the possibility of an awakening into simplicity arises.

Life is so simple, so effortless, so natural. The person trying to live it, trying to control it, and trying to understand it will never see and experience that simplicity.




-Kiloby, Scott. Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment