“It’s what’s real. Shift your focus from thought forms, physical objects, and mental stories to what’s aware of those things, and you’ll see. No Need...
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“When I am hungry I eat, and when I am thirsty I drink. Bankei”
One could write a million words, make a million pictures and still get no nearer to the raw actuality of this moment.
Icy wind, flecks of stinging rain, deserted beach, mind open.
All that needs to be done is simply done without pause or question. Doing without gain or goal. Making without thought or intention. Simply act...
We become what we give our attention to.
Let the nettle sting be. Who are we to claim it as ours?
“Reality is not a symbol, we live in the midst of it. John Aske”
When we truly lose the overbearing sense of a self, what is left naturally inclines towards others.
When we say we can’t take anymore what we’re really saying is we don’t want anymore.
“Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable. Anthony de Mello”
Observe what is here already, no need to go seeking elsewhere.
Don’t wait to be taught. Let your own intuition and insights guide you.
Words and images have meaning in contrast to reality which simply is meaning.
The real benefits of contemplative inquiry appear when we let go of acquiring any.
It’s the holding on that hurts, not the letting go.
Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into form, but to elevate and separate that form above and from...
It is what we do when we don’t know, don’t understand what we are doing.
