Ing-ing. There’s a fun new word to play with. Think about this: we are always ‘doing’ something, experiencING things, lovING things, engagING things, you get the idea, we ‘ING’ everything by way of perception (that would be perceiving). It’s the “ing-ness” that is experience itself; transient and slippery, yet so obvious that you can’t miss an ing. You can trip over it, but you can’t miss it. My grammar teacher would be proud that I remember the word “Gerund.” A gerund is the active form of a verb—that is, the verb BECOMING a noun . . .when you are loving, you are experiencing something (a noun being ‘something’) . . what are you experiencing? “It” – and “it” is clearly a noun . . .unless it’s a verb, then it’s a gerund verb, which is a verb masquerading as a noun, which is just the ego masquerading as truth. When you are running, you are be’ing’ run; when you are loving you are being Love itself. Is-ness is what Ram Dass calls it. Tao is what Lao Tzu calls it. A non-horse is what Chuang Tzu calls it. Ommmmmmm is what the universe calls it. It calls itself Yolanda, or sometimes dust, desk or car. Yesterday it called itself tubing the greenbelt. Tomorrow it’s called __