Aimless Openness as Quality of Life - Now.

Aimless Openness as Quality of Life - Now.

The sequence of your days—a simple question of presence.

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Call it as you wish. I call it aimless openness. You can call it reasonless presence. You can call it choiceless awareness. All refers to a state of mind that is not guided by the movement of time, which is reason, cause, goal, purpose, towards something, away from something, all those.

And the important thing here, before you tag that state in your active mind as a dull, futile, empty and insignificant state, note the attribute of aimlessness, reasonless, choiceless, present, because that attribute is the attribute of the now, not the passing moment, but the everlasting now.

The now cannot be guided or even touched by the active, controlling, purposeful mind. And in the absence of those, so does the mind, as you know it, is absent or at least uninvolved. And only in that, the reality of this alerted, awakened, endlessly living space come to be in your life - Now.

All is then original, beyond any mark of personal. All is then new, beyond any mark of knowledge, which means preference or background. The quality of your life is the quality of the now, as you live it. It is that living space, unburdened by the chattering and pretending to be helpful mind.

From that, clarity speaks. And you cannot, and do not, and need not to intervene at all, no matter what.

Amihai Loven

Amihai Loven

Jeonju. South Korea