Can we see that ‘knowing’ is the most limiting, restrictive, unhelpful and stultifying condition there is, whereas ‘not knowing’ is the most open, liberating, expansive...
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2023
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud”
Can we see that there is no need to go out seeking challenges. Every day is full of challenges if we face it openly, honestly...
Non-Duality
““Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too...
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he...
We imprison ourselves by already deciding in advance how we are going to think and feel about things in the future.
Meditative inquiry is not a way out. It’s a way in. A willingness to attend to and embrace whatever shows up.
Words, images and stories are only ever signposts all directing our wandering, distracted minds back to the infinite space where we already are.
The non dual perspective is not mysterious in any way, in fact it is the most ordinary, simple view there is. What it reveals, however,...
Since we are already tyrannised by our thoughts, why would we indulge in yet more thinking.
“…over time, winners tend to control everything, game systems in their favor and hoard more. And yet, no matter how much they have, there is...
What other people want (and possibly from you), is no concern of yours.
Can we pause for just a moment and look at what is arising without judgement, without wanting what is here now to be better or...
There is nothing more to be discovered about existence than what is revealed right here, right now in this very moment of aliveness.
Before we criticise, judge and denounce can we pause for a moment and consider why others do what they do in the light of why...
Knee-jerk judgement and condemnation says more about our own psychological frailties than about the target of our righteousness.
“Before seeing who you are, you read the scriptures to see if you have got it right. After seeing who you are, you read the...
“True Zen cares nothing about Zen. Douglas Harding”
“Life is a burden until it isn’t. Will Rauschenberger, Ordinary Zen Sangha”
Our ability to let go, allow whatever arises and act out of the present moment instead of memories of the past or desires for the...
