Even amidst the life-story drama of being an apparent individual, there sometimes is recognized a curious emptiness. It seems alien to the story of strife and struggle. It is is an aspect of ourselves that really can't be defined. While wrapped up in identification with the passing forms, it will usually just be skipped over because nothing can be done with it and it doesn't seem useful in "fixing" our imagined problems, which is, of course, our focus. Perhaps at some point the ego (self idea) gets called into question. There may be the seeing of it as merely another thought arising in awareness. This is the dis-identification with the belief in the limited person. Without this core concept, life is known as a sentient emptiness in which everything appears. This knowing void is always present, through every experience of life. Being absolutely nothing, it is absolutely everything. How curious! This conscious void has no problems and is perpetually at peace, always in the only moment there is--the present. Past and future are insubstantial phantoms, they never have nor never will exist. Right now, when is it? Now, of course. Now, look again, when is it? Now.
These words are unimportant. Do you see what they're pointing at? It is the most obvious aspect of existence, and, being so, it is the hardest to see because every where you look, it's all you see. We miss the forest for the trees.
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