Oh look, a donut!

‘Course, donuts come with holes.

Uh oh. Emptiness alert! Incompleteness! Lack!

We all know emptiness is bad. Emptiness is deficiency. Emptiness is missing out.

We don't want no stinkin' emptiness.

Oh my. Better take action. Better get some donut-holes too.

Yep. Fill that space up to the enough-ness line.

And now, suppose we’re not talking about donuts. Suppose we’re talking about you.

I mean, look at you. You obviously are not enough as is. You obviously need more money or love or health, beauty, youth, safety, control, happiness, peace.

Ugh.

Void, anyone?

Maybe order up some calm, some bliss, some enlightenment while you're at it.

Although... that enlightenment stuff can be tricky, since it is supposed to come with void encouragement rather than void filler.  Which does complicate things and make the whole subject kind of scary. I mean, encourage the void? Yikes.

Still, it's OK. Because the list of stuff you need more-of can go on and on and on. So just go for all of it. That should fill ‘er up.

The thing is, if you did finally fill in all the holes and attain “enough,” what would that even look like?

Well shoot, how would any of us know?

I mean it’s not like we can trust thought here. After all, when was the last time thought said, “OK yeah, I have enough money now. I have enough control. I have enough enlightenment, calm, happiness. I can rest now?”

That answer would probably be, “Never.”

Mind routinely rejects the enough it has, while searching for more enough elsewhere.  

And since there’s always something more to get, enough-ness never really shows up. Though even if it did, it wouldn't matter.

Because we're paying attention exclusively to the hole, and missing the whole.

So I wonder what would happen if we were able to play with shifting that attention.

Instead of trying to figure out what’s missing and how to fix that…

What if we could feel into “Whatever it is that we really are” (not getting sidetracked by figuring out or naming that right now)…

And what if we could ask, “Is What-I-really-am lacking connectedness, from itself or anything else? In fact is it lacking anything at all?”

Perhaps we might be able to see that it’s... Everything.

Huh.

Everything can’t be disconnected. Everything can’t be insufficient.

Y'know, because it’s everything.

So while the individual, in its constant attempts at completeness, yearns so much to connect to the vast enough-ness…

And while the personality yearns so much to have more, get more, BE more,

It turns out we’re already the everything donut, not the separated and empty hole.

Here we are, pining so hard, trying so hard, to be what we already are.

Complete. Sufficient. Connected.

Not to mention yummy.

All along. Realized or not.

And that is so much more than…

Enough.


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