' What’s going to happen next? '...

Liberation is not knowing what is going to happen next. Even in the dream of self you don’t know what is going to happen next but, within that dream, a story of knowing is told.

Look more closely right now. Sit there quietly in your chair after reading this reflection. Watch an arm move or maybe a finger. Notice your head turn. Notice a thought arise or maybe a feeling. Notice that “you” are not making these things happen any more than you are pumping blood, digesting food, or breathing.

Thought measures ‘backwards’ to say, “I was just thinking a minute ago,” or “I am going to move my arm now.” But even that thought arises beyond your control. Even if you are arguing with what is being said here, notice that the argument arose spontaneously and involuntarily.

In noticing that life is just happening spontaneously and involuntarily, there is also a noticing that you cannot know what is going to happen next until it is already happening.

The resistance to life as it is happening is suffering. The recognition that life cannot happen in any other way than it is happening is liberation. Liberation is not about doing anything. It is about noticing what is already being done. This is freedom from the false idea that you are doing it.




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