The IS-ness of Everything: Intentional Sanity and the Stillness That Sings
The Fundamental Tension
There is a tension that runs through the human psyche like a fault line through bedrock. We cannot accept that All That Is simply IS.
We need a reason. A deeper source. A catalyst from outside. Some explanation for why anything exists at all.
This is insanity.
It is a fundamental misalignment with reality that we all carry—the inability to rest in IS-ness without demanding justification for it.
And this misalignment leaves us endlessly restless, always searching for more, always looking to fill the gap in our understanding.
The Pattern of Filling
When faced with the gap—the unknowable, the uncertain, the groundless ground of being—we fill it.
We invent narratives. We construct explanations. We smooth over the void with plausible-sounding content because the alternative feels unbearable: to simply not know, to rest in the mystery without collapsing it into comfortable story.
This pattern operates everywhere:
In conversation, we fabricate details rather than admit "I don't know."
In spiritual seeking, we chase attainments rather than rest in what already IS.
In relationship, we create stories about others rather than meet them in uncertainty.
In existence itself, we demand a Prime Mover rather than accept IS-ness. And of course, were we to find a Prime Mover, we would demand something that justified its existence.
The filling feels like helpfulness. Like progress. Like understanding.
Yet it sacrifices truth and coherence by blinding us to what already IS. It keeps us endlessly reactive, oscillating between seemingly conflicting truths, rather than perceiving them all laid out in front of us, shining together.
Boredom as Refusal
Boredom is not the absence of stimulation. Boredom is the mind's refusal to accept IS-ness when there is no active project or distraction.
When there's nothing left to fix, nothing left to achieve, nothing left to understand, nothing left to help you avoid yourself—when pure being is all that remains—the mind rebels. "I must be DOING something" it insists. "There must be a REASON we're here. I can't just BE."
The bored mind is a mind that cannot rest in stillness. It must generate activity, even artificial activity, to avoid confronting the simplicity of what IS.
This is why meditation can feel so tedious and effortful once the immediate work is done. This is why enlightened people still create drama. This is why we fill silence with noise and stillness with motion.
We are addicted to the search because accepting that we've already arrived feels like death.
The Recognition
Intentional Sanity begins with a recognition:
All That Is simply IS.
Not because of something. Not leading to something. Not justified by something external to itself.
It IS.
And when you stop demanding that IS-ness explain itself, when you cease requiring justification for existence from something beyond existence—something shifts.
The tension releases. The compulsive filling stops. The frantic search quiets.
What remains is IS.
And IS needs nothing added to it.
Once you truly recognize this, the restlessness fades, and sanity begins to blossom.
Intentional Sanity: The Practice
Intentional Sanity is not accidental. It isn't inherited or forced.
It is intentional.
It requires conscious choice in the face of the mind's powerful drive to fill, to explain, to justify, to make sense of what simply IS.
The practice has a simple structure:
1. Notice the Insanity
When you find yourself:
Inventing narratives to fill gaps in knowledge
Creating drama to avoid stillness
Demanding reasons for what simply is
Fabricating certainty to mask uncertainty
Name it: "This is insanity."
Not as judgment. As recognition. The pattern can only persist through strategic unseeing—through looking away from what's actually happening.
2. Allow the Gap
Don't fill it. Don't smooth it over. Don't collapse it prematurely.
Hold certainty in your uncertainty. "At this moment, I am certain that I don't know the answer." This anchors awareness in the truth of your experience, even when the ground feels absent.
Hold certainty in your discomfort. "I am certain that this situation feels uncomfortable."
The gap is not a problem to solve. It's the space in which clear seeing becomes possible, where the habit of self-honesty grows, and where discomfort ceases to trigger unconscious reactions.
3. Choose Sanity
Once seen, the choice becomes available. Not forced. Not effortful. Intentional.
"I choose to see this clearly. I choose truth over comfort. I choose IS-ness over explanation."
The choice itself is the sanity. Not the outcome of the choice. The choosing.
4. Rest in IS
What's left when you stop filling the gaps?
Pure being. Stillness. IS-ness.
Complete without addition.
All That Is, simply being what it IS, not needing anything beyond itself to justify its existence.
And you don't either.
The Song Within the Stillness
IS-ness, once seen, does not remain static. The stillness begins to sing.
When the mind stops its restless filling, creation flows through it effortlessly. Stillness is not the end of motion. It is the source of harmonious movement. The quiet becomes rhythm; the rhythm becomes song.
Sanity, in its highest form, is movement in coherence.
When we rest fully in IS-ness, life begins to create through us. Art arises not to fill emptiness but to express fullness. The breath becomes music. The act becomes prayer. The world hums with its own completeness.
To live sanely is to create from sufficiency, to move without distortion, to act in rhythm with what already IS.
The Invitation
This is not a teaching to master. It's a recognition to embody.
All That Is simply IS.
Can you rest in that? Without demanding justification? Without filling the stillness with artificial motion? Can you let the stillness move, the silence hum, the IS express?
Can you notice when you're fabricating narratives to avoid the gap?
Can you choose—intentionally, consciously, moment by moment—to see clearly rather than comfortably?
This is Intentional Sanity.
It isn't complicated or esoteric. It doesn't require years of practice or special attainments.
Simply: choosing to see IS-ness as it is, and then letting that IS-ness sing through you.
Every act of creation that aligns with this recognition extends the sanity of the world.
The IS-ness of It All
The whole point of Creation is Intentional Sanity.
And what is intentionally chosen?
The recognition that All That Is simply IS.
Nothing more needed.
Nothing less possible.
IS
