The unchanging Nature
There is something in you that has never changed. It is Not your body that has grown, not your aged, transformed since the day you arrived. Not your mind that has accumulated knowledge, fear, memory, opinion. Not your emotions also those have swung between joy and grief more times than you can count. But something underneath all of that. Something that was present when you were a child running without thought and is present right now as you read this. Something that does not age, does not accumulate, does not fracture. That is consciousness. And the strange thing about it the thing most of us miss is that it has always been whole. It has never actually been broken. What breaks is the mind’s relationship to it. Watch a child. A child does not perform happiness. A child does not calculate whether it is appropriate to laugh, whether laughing will make them look foolish, whether this moment deserves joy or not. The child simply is what they are, fully in each moment. There is no gap betw...