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2024
What we are does not exist in language.
Nothing Missing
“All there is, is this one bottomless moment, present experiencing here and now—ever-present, ever-changing. Sometimes it is lit up (in waking and dreaming); sometimes it...
Dogen
“Realisation is reality right now. Even shocks, doubts, fears, and frights are none other than reality right now… Dogen”
“The key to peace of mind, I say, resides not in practices and paths, but in suffering consciously the ordinary pain, fear, and confusion that...
One can not feel the conscious need or want to do anything at all, yet be powerfully moved to simply act out of nowhere.
Your life Your lived experience Your own unique aliveness That simply is Without need or want In every moment Is the only possible way
“You want to become a Buddha? There’s no need to become a Buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since...
“Mind is Thus and objects are also Thus: There is no true and also no false. Existence doesn’t concern me, Nor does nonexistence hold me:...
There is no obligation to place the recognition of the nature of one’s own mind into any particular spiritual tradition. The only appropriate context is...
All we are is the present moment. Everything else is imagination.
Home
At home in joy, At home in confusion, At home in peace, At home in darkness, At home in light, At home in noise, At...
You are the highest, utmost authority of and to yourself.
Trust your own insights, you have your own unique mind and experience, no one else’s.
If you can’t integrate/ assimilate traditional ancient wisdom into the ordinary reality of your own lived experience then you’re completely missing the point.
Far from shielding or protecting us, awakening/ enlightenment make us even more acutely aware of the vicissitudes of life which somehow, miraculously, make us instead...
I’m continually surprised by how many apparently mature and experienced spiritual practitioners remain fixed in a self image of brokenness and lack, perpetually seeking their...
There is a dishonesty to many spiritual teachers that misleadingly promise some fictional, unattainable future state, to seduce and entrance its seekers, to keep them...
It’s not a matter of either deserving or not deserving anything. We just get what we get when we get it.
