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“ON OPENNESS”

Openness is not something that “I” acquire through effort or achieve; rather, it refers to a quality of awareness itself—of pure presence.

In other words, to abide in openness means that the “I” is absent; it is a matter that awareness is utterly humble before the fact that “‘I’ know nothing.”

That is synonymous with an absence of action by the “I,” or being a complete surrender of the “I.”

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This openness is not, for instance, a matter of the “I” blindly accepting the words of a sage (words which the “I” thinks as such, yet which are invariably distorted by projections and interpretations born of “my” own experience and memories), nor is it about living strictly according to those interpretation of words.

Such approaches are merely forms of “closedness” as closed-mindedness—interpreted openness by the “I” that unconsciously desires to be someone.

The truth is quite the opposite: openness means seeing, accepting, and remaining unattached to all things, events, or people—including oneself—exactly “as they are,” without obstruction by any known knowledge or thought, and without any judgment, interpretation, or comparison.

It is precisely this openness that provides the key—the universal wisdom, insights, or the capacity to see facts as they truly are—to genuinely liberate awareness from the self-identification and fixation on the narrative of the “I.”

In short, it constitutes the essential fundamentals the same as the clarity of the innermost stillness for true liberation from the ignorance into which all human beings inevitably fall.

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What is required is neither thinking, nor lamenting external tragedies (as the “I” label them by comparison), nor advocating for solutions to them.

Such attempts will never succeed.

This is because these recognizable things are merely transient phenomena as impermanence; they possess no substance, nor do they represent permanence.

Realizing this unalterable fact is of vital importance.

It is precisely these kinds of realizations and insights that awaken awareness effortlessly (means the fixed notion of the “I” is dismantled and dissolves, leaving behind only pure presence).

To achieve this, awareness must turn it’s attention inward rather than outward—patiently ovserving and inquiring deeper and deeper into the recesses of existence with the clarity of innermost stillness—and see through nothing but the facts and the truth.

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Openness does not label anything as “evil” or “wrong,” nor does it deny, exclude, or ever fight against anything.

In other words, it does not insist that one thing is right while another is wrong and therefore must be corrected.

Openness is simply accepting the raw reality exactly as it is—with a heart of compassion.

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Openness is synonymous with impersonal, transcendent, unconditional love without the “I.”

And that—as pure beingness—is the Self, as true nature of the presence. (OM 🙏)