Recently, a precious friend of mine was talking about an interaction with a third friend. She said, “I don’t care what the truth turns out to be, I just hunger to know the truth.” I was deeply struck by the beauty of that statement: my friend has a fidelity to truth. What the truth is– even if it hurts–doesn’t matter. What matters is that it’s true, real, present in our direct experience.
This moment, no matter what it holds, is true. If we are willing to open to that truth, life becomes simpler and easier–we love what is. Otherwise, we rail against what is here because we are attached to what we would prefer it to be. For example, today, the sun never came out; the clouds persisted. If I had longed for sunshine and the warmer temperature it brings, instead of opening to the beauty of overcast skies and a cool day, suffering would have been present–perhaps very subtle, but still, suffering.
As children, most of us loved finding a milkweed seed full, ready to pick and be blown to the wind. But can we see the beauty in this milk weed seed, this very seed occurring now, that is past its so-called prime?
© Amrita Skye Blaine, 2012
the heart of the matter 
The milk-weed seed image is so potent as I still experience some wonder – it wafts in such present flow. And then today I kept seeing them at intervals outside on playground or waiting for parents on the steps out front at the end oft the day. Each time I remembered your words about them being “past their prime”, which I had never seen them in that light. How interestingly thoughts color perspective. And, of course I relate to wanting to know the truth more than wanting to avoid whatever consequences the truth brings.
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I no longer experience them as past their prime, but that is what I was taught–in no uncertain terms–as a child.
I’m with Rupert Spira right now, for a week. Simply delicious!
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I just received this. It seems pertinent when we talk of the Truth and wanting to know the Truth:
“…you can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum…”
So, I suppose at least our senses are only partially capable of helping us out in this endeavor!
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Hi friend,
That’s for sure!
Just starting a weeklong retreat with Rupert Spira. Yum!!
With love,
Amrita
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