What Naturally Seems To Appear Is Already Enough

Before any belief, interpretation or explanation is added, there is simply what naturally seems to appear.

Not an idea of it or an explanation of it, but simply what naturally seems to appear.

What naturally seems to appear is self-evidently appearing. Here, appearance is not limited to any particular kind of appearance, but includes everything that naturally seems to appear — thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, people, objects, events, the world, the universe, awareness of these things, awareness itself, and whatever else may naturally seem to appear.

It is not self-evidently nothing. It is already fully itself. Nothing is self-evidently missing from it.

These are not beliefs about what this ultimately is, nor do they require it to be described in any particular way. They describe what is already self-evident about what naturally seems to appear.

What naturally seems to appear may nevertheless include the apparent experience of being someone or something separate. Thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions may seem to belong to this separate self, while everything else appears to be outside it. Life may then seem to be happening to someone, somewhere, within time and space.

With this may come the sense that something is missing: that what naturally seems to appear is not enough and something needs to happen, stop happening or become different. There may be a search for fulfilment, certainty, meaning, safety, enlightenment or completion.

And yet nothing is self-evidently missing from what naturally seems to appear, while the separate self to whom something supposedly is missing is itself not self-evident.

This does not require another explanation, replacing the separate self with another description or arriving at a final answer about what this ultimately is.

The message is much simpler:

What could be more naturally whole than the wholeness of what naturally seems to appear?

The Appearance Of Humanity

None of this excludes human life.

Human beings naturally seem to appear, with bodies that need food, warmth, safety, rest and care. Thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving appear alongside pleasure and pain, while people seek, struggle, react, respond, relate, create, play, organise and care for one another.

Psychological distress and wellbeing may both appear. There may be circumstances that need changing, relationships that need attention, illnesses that need treating, injustices that need challenging and practical problems that need solving. The wholeness of what naturally seems to appear does not imply that every human state is equally comfortable or desirable.

A movement towards food when hungry, safety when threatened, companionship when lonely or warmth when cold does not establish that something was existentially missing from the wholeness of what naturally seemed to appear. The movement itself is part of what naturally seems to appear.

Seeking, responsivity, choice, practices, methods and tools may all appear, together with love, creativity and playfulness. Even the apparent experience of separation naturally seems to appear. None of it stands outside the wholeness of what naturally seems to appear.

Words such as whole, complete, alive, empty or no-thing-no-thinging may be useful descriptions, but the words are not what they describe. What naturally seems to appear does not need a description in order to appear, nor is it self-evidently dependent upon being known in order to be fully itself.

Nothing is self-evidently missing.

With love,
Freyja