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The point of utopias and dystopias is that we end up somewhere in the middle. What we fail to recognise is that we have to...
Good afternoon.

We cannot rid ourselves of anything that happens because we are everything that happens.
““The observer is the observed and therein lies sanity, the whole.”” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The shift from a busy, confused and overwhelmed mind to that of open, clear, spaciousness is counterintuitively slight but experientially enormous.
Good morning.

““The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.”” — Tara Brach
Being alive is the only adventure.
At meditation this evening I felt an exquisite intensity of the moment – of everything happening all at once.
““When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”” — John Muir
““Different strokes for different folks or for different moments. One moment you need Zen. The next moment you need Advaita. Then maybe you suddenly find...
Good morning.

Good morning.

Things go away. Everything is always here.
Good morning.

Ever tried looking for yourself and not come up with either thoughts, ideas, stories, memories or fantasies? 🤔 😳
Nothing has to happen yet everything does.
Recognising the eternal now is exquisitely palpable yet utterly ungraspable. Reality is fully complete in each moment and yet endlessly generative…
““Notice — what happens when the wordless meets the listening. This listening is without a listener. I have no words — listen.”” — Andō