We are unborn

The following quote is from Zhuang Zhou describing enlightened sages living wholly in an unborn deep ecological perspective. 

'For such people, birth and death change nothing. All heaven and earth could be churned over and falling apart, but for them, nothing would be lost. They inquire where nothing is false, and they aren't tossed about as things shift back and forth. They know the endless transformation of things follows its own inevitable nature and they hold fast to the ancestral source. On loan from everything else, they'll soon be entrusted back to the one body, forgetting liver and gallbladder, abandoning ears and eyes, they'll continue on again, tumbling and twirling through a blur of endings and beginnings. Wondering boundless and free through the selfless unfolding of things.' - Zhuang Zhou

This quote is taken from a podcast I listen with David Hinton. He was featured on the Mountain Cloud program. Click here to listen to the slow, rambling, delightful and insightful session about ways of being in challenging times. 

The talk explores ideas meditated on by Chinese Ch'an practitioners over 1,000 years ago. Ideas that seem searingly relevant.

For me the talk points to a deep need for unlearning almost everything we think we know. Once we can get back to how we might have been and thought if we were born 100,000 years ago, we might be able to make more sense of how to be today.

That is how to 'be' in a way that allows us to feel wholeness, belonging, joy, and peace.

How to 'be' by realising we don't be. We are unborn. We are always everything for all time. With no beginning and no end. No birth or death.