Today is my birthday.
More years ago than I care to mention, I emerged, messy, naked and fully present to this thing we call life.
I had no story, no language, and no identity.
Yet I was lived.
I’d not come to learn the idea of ‘separation’ and as a consequence I received it all with possibly the most open, rule-free mind I’ve ever had.
Today is also my re-birthday.
For by an astonishing coincidence, six years ago today, on my birthday, it happened all over again (with less mess and more clothing, you’ll be relieved to hear).
Up on stage in front of an audience, without warning, I dropped out of all my stories and the identity I’d been living for decades, saw through the mind’s illusion of separation and ‘had an experience of my own health’, fully present to this thing we call life.
Which was the starting point and the whole reason for these pieces of writing.
This recording is quite a few years old now (and listening back, I’m a little bit garrulous and star-struck) but the full story of how it all happened was captured on Jamie Smart’s Get Clarity Podcast, that you can listen to, below:
The weather forecast for today is quite terrible so I shall no doubt be riding the indoor trainer… but only to work up an appetite for a meal out with my wife and daughter, later. 😋
Until tomorrow!
💟
Giles