@ The Pacific Ocean-One Taste
Hawaii / Presence / Original Love
Vegas Magic: Living Timelessly
Not living forever, but becoming present enough that the moment no longer needs a future.
Opening Reflection
“I don’t see things as they are; I see them as I am.”
I am not smart enough to be wrong all the time. Whether I geographically move to Hawaii or psychologically return to what I feel when I am there, I keep breathing and keep #winning over death—not by living forever, but by living timelessly, by being present to the Present.
As I wrote in 2007, perception is never only about the world in front of us. It is also about the awareness looking through our eyes.
The Asymmetric Equation
Presence + Awareness = Timelessness The moment becomes larger when attention stops leaving it.One Taste
I Am the Waves
Hawaii becomes less a location than a way of seeing—an experience of no separation between observer and world.
Right now, I don’t see the waves. I am the waves.
I don’t touch the sandy beach. I am the sandy beach.
I don’t feel the sunshine. I am the sunshine.
To live in this vastness is to bathe in the ocean that mystics call one taste.
These are the good old days—enduring moments when I say that this is the ever “me.” I can drink the Pacific in a single big gulp, with one single big mind.
I can be happy in the world only because I am free of it.
I am not addicted to experiences and memories. I don’t need to gather any more experiences. I go beyond all that.
The Asymmetric Equation
Silence + Distance = Signal When the noise falls away, the observer and the observed begin to meet.The Noticer
There Was Never Any Journey
The search ends when the seeker recognizes the awareness that was present before the search began.
Life is just as it is. I am as I always was. There was never any journey.
What I was looking for is what was looking—the noticer.
I can have all the love I want in the world for the asking. Love flows through all that is—so I am that love too.
I have access to love within myself, and it says: “I myself am beauty. I myself am joy. I myself am happiness.”
Knowing myself as myself is the ultimate intimacy. It is original love.
So what do I need of anything else in the world?
The Asymmetric Equation
Attention − Separation = Original Love The less distance created by thought, the more intimacy remains.Original Love
Remove the Obstacles
Love is not manufactured. It becomes visible when fear and distinction stop controlling perception.
Whenever I look at anything or anyone as separate from me, I am afraid of it. Love is letting go of that fear.
My love refuses to separate, to make distinctions. The nectar of love empowers me with its message that I am, always have been, and always will be, made of love.
When I realize the depth and fullness of my love of myself, I know that every body, everybody, and the entire universe are included in my affection. I love naturally and spontaneously.
There is only love, and all I can do is remove the obstacles to the awareness of this love.
I have a power that makes all things love-worthy and lovable.
The Asymmetric Equation
Separation + Fear = Suffering Love begins by refusing the false boundary between self and world.Field Images
The Visual Record
The original photographs remain part of the chapter, now using direct Blogger image URLs so they display without being clicked first.
The Elixir
Welcome to the Magic of Being
Living timelessly does not mean escaping time. It means entering the present so completely that the old division between the person, the place, and the experience no longer holds.
The Asymmetric Equation
Experience + Form = Elixir The lived moment becomes a gift when it is shaped into something another person can carry home.