By Leo Babauta

The boy awoke one morning to a startling discovery — that every part he believed was not the reality. He realized that the way in which he’d been seeing issues was just one method of seeing issues. His view of issues was not absolute however tentative.

What he noticed this morning is that every part was made up of a Luminous cloudlike substance, an power. Together with himself. Together with the air and wind and lightweight. Luminous and filled with marvel.

His physique was made up of this power — there was no distinction between inside himself and out. Even his feelings have been types of it — anger, unhappiness, love, worry, grief, frustration, loneliness, all have been made up of this luminous, wondrous, cloudlike power.

The power was all the identical all over the place, nevertheless it was swirlying and cloudlike and altering in type. His physique, for instance, might need appeared like a separate factor from every part else, nevertheless it was consistently shifting like a cloud, respiration out and emanating components of itself to the remainder, taking in new components from the remainder.

This discovery of the luminous power making up all of actuality … it modified his life that day. He felt linked to every part round him, as a result of it was not separate from him.

He was not held again by something. He might do issues he was afraid of earlier than, as a result of he noticed that worry was simply the identical power as every part else, lovely and scrumptious. His previous behavior of avoidance melted away, as he had no troublesome emotions to keep away from — all was luminous power.

He was not a slave to his addictions, as a result of the craving that induced the addictions was merely a type of this wondrous power. He might merely really feel the craving, and find it irresistible as he beloved every part else.

He not felt apprehensive about being ample, as a result of there isn’t a worry of inadequacy when you’re part of the luminous power of every part. He not needed to fear about getting love, as a result of he was part of the love of every part.

He was liberated. And so he determined to liberate all different beings by sharing his story of awakening to Luminous Actuality.