Untangling the Tapestry
Let’s look back, through our lineages, through our lines. Let us retrace the weave of those threads that shape us. There are many strands that form the fabric of our lives. Threads spun long before we arrived, shaping an intricate tapestry, a beautiful tapestry. This tapestry is not woven alone; it is shaped by countless lives, choices and circumstances. A web of causes and conditions.
Over time, these threads can become entangled—confused, congested, stagnant—wrapped, warped, twisted, and knotted. There are knots within us, just as there are knots in the ancestral line. If we examine the threads of our ancestry, we see how these knots—born of suffering, trauma, and unresolved patterns—distort the image and change the weave.
Some believe they must trace the past to untie the knots of their lineage. But you don’t have to go backwards—you have to come to where you are. The knot is loosened not by pulling on its origin, but by how you meet it here and now. When you accept where you stand, when you rest fully in presence, the tangle begins to unwind on its own. The past is not outside of you; it is woven into this moment. And it is in this moment that it can be freed.
The catch is that to realise pure, primordial presence, one must let go of the idea that they are the one untangling the knots. True presence does not boast of its capacity to heal, nor does it claim credit for untying the threads. No realised being declares, “I am healing my kin through my great presence.” Presence does not need to announce itself—if it did, it would not be presence at all.
As Lao Tzu says: “Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.” This knowing is humble, self-luminous—like awareness itself, illuminating without effort.
Just as light dissolves shadow, pure presence harmonises the time-bound mind with the timeless. From this space, all is our relative—every parent our parent, every child our child, every lineage our lineage, every past our past, every future our future.
I always say presence is the real medicine and this is why. It grows as understanding grows—until it swallows understanding itself, until it swallows all concepts. And once you are swallowed, that non-dual essence radiates in all directions, effortlessly. There is no one choosing how the wave rolls, lands, or crashes but there is an ocean that always embraces the seeming separation of waves and winds and shallows.
If you look back at yourself, your parents, and your society and say, “I am healing my lineage,” it surely is noble. But if presence itself heals you, there is no agenda to wield a sword against the past. Instead, in radiance, the lines are purified naturally and effortlessly. You carry the burden only so long as you believe yourself to be the one carrying it. Let go of that idea, and the load is lightened.
That is not to say that simply closing the story is all that is needed or that you need to just gaze at your own holier-than-thou navel and the world will be healed. Instead, it is an encouragement to act with humility and hold duality lightly. It is to do the noble work while abandoning the results. Like Krishna says to Arjuna: "You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction.”
What you do here today, in this moment right now, can clarify, cure, and heal the past and the future simultaneously. If you find that place inside of yourself where presence lives—then where is the problem? If you live from there and let that be your path and guide, with forgiveness at your side, then as you look back at the past, even those who live there feel the chains loosen—not only from your spirit but from their own as well. If you look forward to the future, then what is passed on is presence, and those future generations will reap the fruits of the seeds you have here sown.
