~Finding the Sacred~

How is something sacred...made sacred...experienced as sacred?

Just to share a brief moment...

I was towelling off after a shower, fully present with the sentation, not wanting to be anywhere else, not even wanting to be there at that moment...just letting it all be.  And as the presence crystalized and penetrated, I was suddenly no where to be found.  There was simply toweling off...not 'me' towelling off.  In that moment, it was sacred.  Totally mundane, ordinary, a moment that is usually skimmed over with some distracted thinking.  Yet I allowed myself to be totally there, without a need for it to be any way in particular, and it was sublime.

So what is the lesson here...the lesson about sacredness?  It seems that sacredness is not some thing, not a quality of an object, or contained within an object, but the reality of everything, when engaged with fully.  Thus, brushing one's teeth could be sacred, a direct portal into truth and awakening; and ritualized meditation or prayer could be nothing more than distraction, an empty gesture downbound in ignorance.  It is all a matter of the quality with which we meet these things, these actions with...the relationship we cultivate with life itself.  Nisargadatta said that sincerity alone is the necessary ingredient for awakening.  We must sincerely engage with whatever is present for us moment to moment...be it sadness or pain or bliss or bordom...it is not so much about what is being known, but connecting with that quality of knowing.  It is the knowing that brings us home to ourselves.

LightLifeLove,

Eka