Dharma In Popular Music: The Evernow
Posted on July 3, 2010, in Art of Dharma, with“Isness Is My Business.” -J. T. Henry
Isness is the state of being fully present, in the moment, aware, unattached, mindful, awakened, and in the evernow. Liz Mitten Ryan writes in Sabbatical: Resting in the Miraculous Power of Isness , “Isness just is — it exists for all time, in all dimensions. It is not a brief interlude, a now experience, but a knowing and becoming — a fluent state of wisdom and grace that embodies all creation.” Isness as an essential element of enlightenment. In Letting go of the past and the future, we let go of our unhealthy and ungrounded states of mind. We move from the world of the hypothetical to the real world. The eternal present calms our busy minds, eliminating hope, fear, and the ego. Ryan elaborates “When thought ceases, quiet remains, and in that quiet, we let go of our physical identification and allow our spiritual truth to resonate within us.” For more, read the article, “Isness” and the Moment. “The Evernow” is a song from the album “Sutras” by Donovan Leitch.
From within the endless sk
y
The silence surges softly through me
In the presence for the Bo tree
Comes the dawning of the day
The only thing to really learn
"Isness is my business." J. T. Henry
To only know the single moment
Living in the ever now
Dreaming as in a trance
Comes the rising of the sun
The only thing to really learn
