Being Available
A companion piece to The Unshakable Ground
From the very beginning, human beings have asked the question: Why am I here?
It is a genuine and primordial inquiry—one that arises naturally in the heart. But in most of us, it is quickly hijacked by the ego. The ego turns it into a survival project: What is my purpose? What legacy will I leave? How do I prove my existence matters? How do I reaffirm my existence in a threatening world?
Once captured in this way, the question becomes a tool of self-preservation, feeding the endless drama of significance and insecurity that is the underlying substrate of experience for most of us. This subsuming of the real by the unreal was explored in the companion essay The Unshakable Ground.
Yet the question itself is not the problem. It is real. And in fact, it grows only more compelling once we have seen through the ego’s games. After awakening to the unshakable ground of being—knowing ourselves as the dimensionless and formless, the unborn and eternal, the threshold of unlimited possibility—the question doesn’t dissolve. If anything, it sharpens. It forms a creative surface tension within the deep peace of surrender. It is the clarity and awakeness that accompanies the deep relaxation of pure being.
