' Childlike wonder '...

Childlike wonder happens in the experiential realization that every thought and emotion and every other aspect of life arises spontaneously out of nothing. The heavy burden of “me” is seen to be unreal in this seeing.

From the point of view of the false, separate self, thought measures back into past to claim, “I did that,” and measures forward into future to claim, “I am going to do that.” But look more closely. Even those thoughts arise spontaneously out of nothing. Are you bringing those thoughts about?

In seeing that you are not the doer, there is a realization that you are being done, that life is being done. It is simply happening whether there is consent or resistance to the way it is happening.

What you think you know is what stands in the way of this liberation. What you think you are in control of stands in the way of this liberation. As it is seen that the story you take to be “you” does not know or control anything, liberation is realized. This is childlike wonder. No separate self can achieve childlike wonder. The separate self is too busy dreaming that it has control and that it knows all the answers.

Childlike wonder appears obscured by the mental movements of knowing and controlling. But even the thoughts that say “I know” and “I am in control” are happening spontaneously. Therefore, there is no obscuration.




-Kiloby, Scott. Reflections of the One Life: Daily Pointers to Enlightenment