heartbeat of existence

Our essence is the heartbeat of existence

Have you ever, for a moment at least, dwelled in your own essence? Have you found that very core of your being? Have you found the source of life itself, within yourself? If you have even tasted that for a moment, you will know it's a mysterious thing – it's not a thing at all.

Our essence is a tremendously still point within us. On the one hand, it seems infinitesimal, smaller than the smallest thing conceivable. And yet at the same time it is vast, an infinite unbounded space, spaciousness itself. And there's a tremendous silence there. And in this still silence, one might expect a nothingness, and yet mysteriously it is not so. It is more like an everything-ness.

In this point within ourself, in our essence, we are not in any way separate from the rest of existence. Our essence is the same essence that allows trees to be trees. It's the same essence that makes a grain of sand, a grain of sand. This essence runs through the whole of existence. It underlies existence. It is the source from which existence springs eternally, ever new, ever fresh. It is the very heartbeat of existence. And that is our essence. Without it there is nothing, with it everything.