“By a symbol, I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned...
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“What we’re really in the business of doing is helping people stay with the thoughts and feelings they are coming to meditation to escape. Barry...
At any given moment the only thing that could possibly be missing is what we’re not giving.
We really don’t need to trouble ourselves with questions of self/ non-self , duality/ non-duality, emptiness, oneness, equanimity, enlightenment, awakening and all the myriad other...
“Enlightenment is not some supreme spiritual state. It is the simple perception that reality is only here and now. No matter what the here and...
“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson”
Practice is not a curative fantasy. Rather an intimate unconditional relationship with what is, what is here, whatever is happening.
Recognising our raw aliveness in every aspect of this moment. Both pain and joy, delight and sorrow are all equally expressions of the totality and...
“Just as the mute person has trouble describing the taste of sugar, we have trouble describing the nature of mind. Kalu Rinpoche”
Anything that purports to be an answer contains the seed of another question.
Silently implicit in the marrow of being is the inevitability of not being.
We are never not completely what we are, whatever is happening despite not having the first clue what or how any of this is occurring.
Perhaps that which is beyond articulation is the more real, the more true, the most valuable.
“You cannot choose or decide what to understand or when. You get what you get when you get it. Robert Saltzman”
“Your goal is not perfection (which is a very one-sided attitude toward life) but your unique totality. During the process you may not know what...
You’re never too old for this shit.
