“When the thinking mind tries to figure things out, confusion appears. But right here, right now is not confusing at all. Joan Tollifson”
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2023
When the illusion of self is clearly seen through we miraculously disappear in each other’s favour.
In the absolute there are no happy endings as there are no endings.
True understanding is a kind of instinctive unknowing, a deep sense of fundamental emptiness expressed as everything.
Noise is just as intrinsic to the absolute as silence. As motion is to stillness. They enable each other. In the infinite all opposites allow...
One fascinating, paradoxical and wonderful, yet utterly ordinary aspect of awakening is the freedom it affords one to go past, through and leave behind many...
Wide awake in the midst of life.
What are we doing and what is it we think we are doing?
Neo-Advaita Meets Dzogchen: The Unraveling of a Pseudo-Enlightenment
“The following is an excerpt from Sam Harris’s book Waking Up. I must confess that I have not read Sam’s book, but I find the...
Unconditional expression.
Existence purely expressed directly without preference, bias or fantasy.
When we attend closely we find nothing more or less that the universe unfolding as us.
Trust not knowing. Let go of certainty. Fall through doubt and land in what’s left.
Freedom comes when we realise that although we will think, we don’t have to think. Letting go of the spurious obligation to fill open awareness...
Listening, sensing, awaring without expectation.
The acquisition of happiness through pursuit is a fundamentally flawed project. We can’t make ourselves happy, we can only be happy.
There is simultaneously both something yet nothing. No experience yet being everything.
“Our quality of being determines our quality of doing Thich Nhat Hanh”
