The Seer and The Seen: Collapsing the Gap on The Longing for Love

To see deeply, is to be deeply seen

So many of us feel invisible – unseen and lost on the brink of giving up in our battle to be seen, to be heard, to be good enough,  and ultimately,

To be loved.

All in the name of survival, this pain, frustration, despair, fear, and angst is fuelled and intensified profoundly by the sense of disconnection and loneliness that we experience.  This becomes so intense that we, over the course of our lives, conceal it almost completely from our conscious awareness. From this, this attempt to conceal appears as a compulsion to effort, try, change, and become – a preoccupation with life and our self being something other than what we are and what is now. This preoccupation, heavily reinforced by the people, situations, and activities around us reflecting the same, has a background atmosphere of hopelessness and meaninglessness that, should we dare to look into it, reveals a questioning of our very existence - of life here now. The angst that we experience out-pictures as the sense of the world in which we inhabit yet feel so disconnected from.  

If we so choose, this struggle can be recognised not only as a longing to be acknowledged in our suffering, but as the universal longing to see and feel a deeper connection with what is present. To explore the inherent worth and beauty of all experience and to know, through self-recognition, the wound and the medicine for it. This which we all effortlessly share.

"I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you all else melted away"

RUMI

When we connect with what is present beyond words and ideas, we come into a radically different kind of engagement with life. What we consider as ‘meaning’ gets turned inside out. The more we explore this presence, recognising the inherent worth and beauty in every moment– in truly seeing it as it is, rather than telling it what it is, there is a reciprocity that takes place beyond anything I could ever bring words to. To see presence fully is to simultaneously be seen by the source of all creation, and to recognise at a level of absolute knowing that there is no division between you and this. This reciprocity is immediate because this is what you truly are. Deeply in love and directly engaged as yourself. Alone, but not lonely, everyone and everything is an expression of yourself. This is true connection. True intimacy. True being as:

                   The seer and the seen.

This invitation isn’t about teaching you something new or different. But to support you to recognise how deeply engaged you already are with and as yourself:

                    this flow of experiencing

                and this within which this flows.

Even when life feels overwhelming and hopeless, recognising this deep engagement, this deep seeing, is effortlessly being this which you already are.

It’s about feeling into the wholeness of this perpetual moment:

all emotion,

all thought,

all sound, sight, taste, and touch

all sensation,

whenever you naturally remember to do so, in profound openness, curiosity, and compassion. In doing so, with gentleness and ease, you will come to recognise all of this as the expression of the same unified field of being which we all are.

          To see deeply is to be deeply seen.

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