Just show up and observe!

 The surprise has been that I can only do “spiritual work” for a few hours. That would be reading, writing and talking to people about spiritual matters. Those would be the morning hours and the afternoon I pretty much take off. Sometimes I call myself only half-joking a part-time spiritualist. After all, I am used to a lifestyle of working all the time, and there are clearly books to write, videos to shoot and a community to build.

 

The other day I had a satori experience that for the first time didn’t feel like one. It felt normal instead. I was looking at the world and life as is through a windowpane. There was no me around forming an opinion on what was going on. There were no thoughts—other than perhaps, “oh wow, who would have thought this is so simple!” I wasn’t working on anything then. I believe I was on my way to my favorite bread store.

 

You know what the conclusion of this satori experience is? The only problem with the “part-time spiritualist” judgement is the expectation that spirituality is something one can work towards. Living is spiritual as long as the self perception with all its shoulds, musts and can’t is kept out of it. Life as is happens the way it does anyhow, no matter what our opinion on it happens to be. How can we be the silent witness? Just show up and observe!