Since our first breath thoughts, feelings, concepts, ideas and experiences have come and gone over and and over and over. The open space of awareness which allows for all of that has not changed in the slightest. The awareness we have in this moment is identical to that when we were born – everything else is what has changed.

If we persist in looking to get or obtain something, anything from ourselves, others and the world then we miss that everything that happens is an invitation to receive and accept all things rather than an opportunity to gain only what we prefer.

What stories are we going to believe and invest in about ourselves and the world today? What forms and patterns will we think are real and permanent?
What ephemera will we mistake for essential? What will we hang onto for dear life without recognising there’s nothing there?

Dissolving or seeing through the fabricated ego self automatically frees us from craving and addiction as there is no one to do any wanting. The conditioned question ‘what do I want?’ evaporates leaving only the inquiry ‘what is here now?’