Rest as Loving Beingness

A Contemplation on Presence, Authenticity, and Fearless Action

Close your eyes.
Let the body soften.
Let the breath return to its natural rhythm.
Let thought be what it will, like ripples settling in still water.
You are already here.
Nothing to reach for, nothing to become.
Rest now, effortlessly as you are without trying to change anything.

Rest as the silent witness as if you are the loving parent of all perceptions.
Be the quiet awareness behind all experience— the gentle, loving presence that watches, 
Unchanged by what it sees.

Observe the mind as if you were observing a worried adolescent child speaking.
Trying to protect, defend, justify.
See its movements—striving, judging, comparing,seeking
Longing to be seen or approved of.
Watch it with love and yet detached indifference.
Let it be witnessed without identification.

Be aware of the body, as you would embrace a child expressing its hurt feelings.
Bring attention into the body—especially its tender places.
Notice sensations. Let them be felt fully.
As they wish to be felt.
There is no need to fix or flee.
Just be with what is.

Ask softly:
Is adolescent mind creating the notion of "me" in space, time, otherness, "me"-ness and separateness in its narrative?
Are its thought racing to try and fix, solve, seek, avoid, suppress this "me"?
Watch how the illusion of separation forms and fades.
Let the question itself dissolve into silence.

Gently notice:
Is the child body uncomfortable?
Feel into the characteristics of these sensations without naming them,
Or following the mind's narrative about them, as it it understood them.
Welcome what arises, as a parent welcomes a child—
held, safe, and seen, in limitless patience.
There is no need to name, analyse, or solve.
Have no expectation that the sensations will leave.
Allow them to unfold, evolve, or remain—
Free to develop in their own rhythm and time.
Knowing it is an appearance of your innocence you are welcoming.

Return to beingness.
Rest in loving presence—without outside, without other.
Let beingness be your home.
Feel the spontaneous joy that arises—
An enthusiastic aliveness free of effort or identity.

Allow thoughts of "me" in space and time to dissolve
In the clear understanding light that the mind agrees it does not-know these are true.
And there is no need to veil your nature with mental definitions of any sort,
Let yourself be known by being it.

Listen to the aliveness within:
From this peaceful stillness,
What does love desire?
Let the movement arise naturally,
Not as a should, but as a peaceful confident movement of joyful aliveness.
Pointing your children the mind and body in the unified direction of your loving beingness.

Watch what thought or action appears—
Free of defense, free of seeking,
Not born of fear or lack,
But of presence, clarity, and love.

Let action arise.
Let it unfold naturally, without hesitation.
Then pause—softly observe:
Was this action born from the peace and clarity of wise presence—
The grounded freedom of your loving beingness?
Did it carry the quiet strength of courageous enthusiasm—
A fearless, natural movement from love itself?
Did it protect the body, express inner joy,
And arise free of any expectation?

Or...

Was it an emotional reaction—grasping for something,
Seeking approval, escape, or control?
See the difference clearly.
This is the experiment in action.
Free action honours the body, expresses joy, and seeks nothing and gains and loses nothing.
Emotional reaction always wants something—
A result, a change, a sense of self.
Feel what remains.
If peace is still here, if your energy is light and clear,
You have acted from truth.
If any residue of attachment lingers, do not resist it.
See it. Hold it.
Do not follow the mind into narratives of self defeat,
Simply, return again to stillness—
The home you never truly left.

Rest now,
Not as the doer,
But as the loving presence in which all doing arises and dissolves.
You are whole.
You are free.
You are loving beingness.
Always.

With Love,

Freyja