Can we see that awareness is the one and only constant in our life. It allows everything to happen, to come and go. It’s all...
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Our common shrine can be the open, boundless, indivisible awareness that is always right here, right now.
With peace of mind we find ourselves at home everywhere.
May we raise children who love the unloved things
“May we raise children who love the unloved things – the dandelion, the worms and spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn &...
The ability for two people to be together in each other’s company, in complete silence and total ease, without any desire to speak or express,...
What is here now?
The warmth of the sun but no face Cold air but no skin The world moving past and through But no doing Myriad sounds but...
Leave yourself alone. Stop meddling. There really is no need to interfere with what is already perfect exactly as it is. Nothing need be added...
Trying to be something or someone obscures the simple truth of what you really are without contrivance or effort.
Awakening is like finally recognising that the car we are driving is actually fully autonomous requiring no driver. We thought we were at the wheel...
Continual identification with every thought that enters our awareness condemns us to a prison of our own making. Freedom comes when we recognise we are...
All of which serve to distract and conceal the vivid, raw, alive truth of simply being here, now intrinsically woven into the world without boundaries...
Can we also notice the continuous directors cut narration that plays over the present moment?
Can we recognise our memories of the past and thoughts about the future as fundamentally all the same imaginary fantasy?
“The trouble with the mind is its supposed abstraction from the world… Douglas Harding”
The real problems of life are literally not what we think they are. The problems lie with identification with every thought that occurs to us....
Only confusion lies at the end of trains of thought.
We pour all our cognitive resources into and invest heavily in our separate egos. What a waste. Let us recognise what happens when we invest...
Can we attend closely and carefully to the difference between memories and what is actually present here, now?
If we are anything we are a spontaneous arising of ever changing aliveness.
The universe remains indifferent to our separate identities and desires.
