All we know is mind
“So far as we know, there is no ultimate understanding, no supreme being, no "God." That which we have named "reality" or "the world" is...
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“The wisdom of age constitutes the ability to accept reality, which is the knowledge of certain death -- substantial, personal, individual extinction. It no longer...
“Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go...
Freefalling through phenomena… No parachute but no ground either.
Yesterday I received a letter which immediately caused me great anxiety and fear, a palpable contraction in my chest and my mind spinning. This very...
I’m not a Zen Buddhist. My mind has no spiritual tradition. It is whatever it is, however it is, wherever it is, whenever it is.
“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. Samuel Beckett”
“You guard a spiritual thing; It isn't something you could make, And it isn't something you can describe. In this ground of ours, There is...
Everything is just happening including you.
I have no idea what awakening or enlightenment mean to other people but to me they simply mean the open, unconditional, honest, vulnerable acceptance of...
I think so-called ‘original nature’ is a phantom. There is no such thing. There’s no original anything. There is simply everything that happens in every...
Rather than practicing in the midst of life, the midst of life is practice.
“If you can’t value the darkness, how will you ever value the light? Shiv Sengupta”
What is the meaning of life? You may as well ask what is the meaning of a mushroom. It is simply to be a mushroom....
“That the Buddha was a great man who lived many years ago and was written about in sutras doesn’t mean a thing. It is your...
