Coming home to the ground of being.

Lately I have found myself coming home to the ground of being throughout the day. Even if the day is busy, the reminder is there: the invitation to let go of efforting. It isn’t a thought as much as a feeling in the body of letting go. It feels like a sweet surrender into stillness. The me that has been worrying or pushing can rest here.

It took me awhile to discover the ground of being in meditation practice. I tried to understand it conceptually but the words are simply pointers to a lived experience. That lived experience found me in a moment of silence, when the efforting had ceased. It was in a willingness to open to what was actually here that the ground of being appeared. It surprised me. And it continues to arise spontaneously in my being to support this state of allowing, this true nature.

It is impossible to understand the ground of being from the mind. The seeking energy of the mind keeps the embodiment of these ideas just out of reach. It can be frustrating to the mind that it can’t make these things happen. The energy of true realization is in the non-efforting, it’s in the surrender and the allowing that our true nature can arise.

I am constantly waking up to the ground of being. It is when I feel it in the body that it is so useful. It helps me feel more peaceful, more joyful, more loving. I am more present to my direct experience of life and I worry less. I invite you to fall back into your experience of the ground of being and rest there. And see what happens.