The primary premise of B & B’s This Is Now, is to develop skill, practice, and community of deeper listening. It’s not willing a plan into place. Nor an exercise. It’s not more efforting from a paradigm of tenacity or force or imposition. Rather, it’s being moved by what is arising. Giving ourselves to that. Amplifying that. Which means some real commitment to presence. Some ease with waiting. Some playfulness to link intuition with impression. Some baseline orientation to wholeness.
Yesterday’ session was delightful. One person talked about “useful” in her check-out. “Nowful” too. Kind of fun to replace the former with the latter, attributing inherent value — it was very nowful. And if it’s nowful, it’s useful.
I picked up a bunch of other phrases that help lift this energy.
- “Let’s now” — it’s great to be in company that can making nowing a verb.
- “This moment matters” and “this moment is” (thx Elif).
- “By the grave of God, it all runs together” (thx Wendy).
- “We already know” — it’s great to affirm our spiritually and alchemically indigenous knowing.
- “Be nowed” — be moved; be inspired in the way you might at the ocean’s edge by the vista of now.
- “Everything we need is now” — there is much that is life-giving in the present moment. This is what many wisdom leaders have taught throughout time.
- “We belong to each other, no exception” — (thx Saoirse quoting Father Gregory Boyle).
- “Nowing is a self-organizing pattern” — takes me back to my early days with Meg. When we now, we connect, we learn, we move with life.
Nowing is at some level, an exercise. Sure.
But moreso, it’s a way of being, or orienting — that challenges paradigms of time, of preparation, etc.
Nowing brings us to relationship with what is, now alive, now moving, now weaving inner and outer, now inviting.
An epistemology? Yes.
A truth-telling of what is possible and inherently already in us? I think so.
On it flows.
Thx for reading.
Let’s Now.
