If we attend carefully enough we find the universal in the particular and the particular in the universal…
Archives
2023
There is no separation in all aspects of being, a life is indivisible whatever it’s variation. There is true liberation of mind in this realisation...
The specifics of where I am, and what I do are irrelevant. I am always right here, right now, riding the irresistible, ungraspable wave of...
Adventure? Compared to what? Simply being here is adventure enough.
In practice the more you desire and effort towards anything in particular the further and faster you push it away. Let go of all notions...
A felt sense of being beautifully bloated and pregnant with unutterable possibility yet profoundly empty with infinite capacity
All these words are just ferns unfolding A worm extending itself through the earth Raindrops evaporating on the ground No more, no less.
To take oneself apart yet remain indivisible To clearly see through oneself yet remain whole To completely disappear and dissolve in the world yet embody...
“The true human being Has undone everything And made no attempt To do it all up again They live from emptiness The most beautiful grace...
“There is a natural intelligence That speaks a secret language You can only hear it, and feel it, When you stop trying to fill all...
“‘Being fully alive also means aligning our lived lives with what in Zen is called the inmost request. The inmost request is what we most...
“What is the self? It is yourself and there is no excuse whatever. So you are absolutely in the frying pan. But it must be...
Paradoxically ‘not knowing’ — being the condition of having no idea what to do or how to do anything is one of infinite wisdom. Instinctive...
“When awareness recognizes itself, recognizes what it's always been it feels a kind of joy. It's just the joy of openness, the joy of no...
Confusion can only ever arise when thinking about thoughts. The bare, raw actuality of experience is always clear and open and simple.
“Fear informs most people’s choices, and investment in the belief that fear keeps us safe is widespread… Back to the Present”
“The action devoid of attachment represents the functioning of impersonal and universal creative energy. The energy that has no agenda and no purpose. The one...
“Perhaps the most liberating of all realizations is the recognition that there is always simply what is, just as it is. All our ideas about...
“…it’s not really “me” in the individual sense, finding how to harness my mind, or merge with Source. It’s ‘me’ stepping aside to allow Source...
“Nothing has to happen right now but what is happening right now. Nothing has to be right now but what is right now. You have...
