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2023
Language is a world unto itself. An infinite universe of imaginative and conceptual imagery and symbols. Communication is the least of it yet we assume...
“It is precisely at the point where we become completely lost that life fully operates. Kosho Uchiyama”
“Any search for meaning ultimately leads to the inner "mythical" realm and must be understood as a limited subjective attempt to answer the unanswerable. Carl...
“How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright...
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not...
Recognise that the car we think we are driving is actually fully autonomous requiring no driver. We think we are at the wheel but the...
It is both a great relief and also a source of boundless capacity, to look for oneself and find no one at the wheel.
If you think your consciousness and ego/ self of I, me, mine is so damn clever, important and responsible for all the things it takes...
The less one says the more one is.
“Awakening washes away awakening. Old Zen saying”
The difference between what you want to do and what you don’t want to do dissolves until you are simply left with what happens.
Naked and alone
A Zen master's students arrive to find him disheveled, mud-spattered, and naked, sitting on the ground in front of his house, beating on an empty...
The specific qualities of experience pale before the simple yet unfathomable recognition that there is anything happening at all.
We really don’t have to do anything to be fully and totally alive. We don’t live our lives, our lives live us spontaneously in every...
You’re only free if you’re free to suffer as well as laugh.
A simple, open-ended curiosity with what is…
“It’s over, the “buddhas and patriarchs” disease That once gripped my chest. Now I’m just an ordinary man With a clean slate. Daito (1282-1334)”
We are always exactly where we need to be.
