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Not wanting is a form of desire. What you grasp for is the same as what you push away. Suffering is an urge to gain what we lack. Suffering is a need to be rid of something. Only a false self can have things added or subtracted. No Self has no possessions. No Self has no lack. No Self cannot comprehend "not enough". No Self can never have too much. Peace has no concept of itself.

Separate things are invented by human minds. Interconnection does not accept our opinions. False divisions equal our anxieties. Retreat and melt Into peace and sanity.

The self comes into being and jumps into incarceration. "I believe"... bang! The cell door closes. "I must have"... click!  The lock engages. "I don't want this!"  The self lies down on its cot. We must realize the self is the prison and the guard. Leave it all behind for the herenow parole.

Open to a mild anticipation The near future flows in Unfolding, the moment is gone again What is there to grasp? Why torture ourselves in past and far futures?

The release of the self might imply no individual soul exists. Fractals imply infinite information within finite boundaries, all connected. Infinite within and infinite without seems a better description of reality and experience.

The horizon divides Tao, yin and yang. It lies between heaven and earth. It cannot be defined, though we try to behold it. Zoom in, move towards the horizon, it will infinitely melt to unknown electrons. Zoom out and it still does not exist there. We define the separations in our own way. Zooming in, zooming out, continuous.

Enlightened, you are not burdened by the heaviness of the world any longer. The heaviness was mind, uncontrolled, chaos that was never yours. Your thoughts were everywhere in your mind, never here, a false universe. The heavy self cracks and dissolves into the past.  It cannot be repaired. Small parts and sections may fall away at a time, torturous. Once your iceberg is dissolved, peace. Your new identity is open calmness, not within, not without. Openness loses its meaning without the false you boundaries. It may require acclimation!

There is endlessly unfolding herenow. Space and time are one. It's impossible to ever not be herenow. You are unfolding and intertwining with everything. Everyone is intermixing with everything. Everything merges with everything. When you were there in the past, another now. Blissfully gone, unfolded away. Now and now and now unfurl their forward march without effort. Past is non-existent. Future, another word with no meaning. These two are away, where we never exist. A surrender to herenow is only obvious.

There is no shell on our outside, only interactions between "us" and "environment".   No body is closed. Nobody is closed. Each cell destroyed and two born, then exhausted again. Atmosphere flows in. We are transformed. Food and drink enter to be broken and used. Another transformation between out and in. The environment is expelled. The waste released. More ecosystem in. Processes and transformations at all levels. The self shell dissolves from the new perspective. The fight against environment was never there.