What’s True Here?

It's an inquiry without boundaries
whose answer shifts from
breath to breath, and yet
there's something foundational
at the heart of the question,
something universal and unchanging.
When I turn inside and hold
this koan lightly, it isn't an
answer I receive, but an
experience of life,
a sense of Self with a
capital S in intimate relationship
to consciousness and depth.
What's true here isn't a
simplistic statement of fact,
but a verb glimpsed in the 
midst of activity that is also
the very essence of stillness,
its two paradoxical aspects
spectacularly mind-stopping.
What's true here is openness
serenity, and joy, roiling
thoughts brought into focus
on a single point of presence
that gives me everything
important in an instant of
transmission - love offered,
love received.

~ "What's True Here?" by Danna Fauld, taken from her book - What's True Here - New Poems and Other Writings.

What true here cannot be found in the rushing from here to there and worrying about what’s next. Our truth is found when we take time to pause… breathe … and touch the still center of ourselves. There is love here.

Namaste