We deceive ourselves by thinking it can’t be this obvious, this simple, this effortless. It is our thoughts, not our raw awareness, that create confusion,...
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The eternal unfolding of the infinite everything includes the arising of the futile attempts to describe it. A ruler trying to measure itself.
Can we be still and attend to this open awareness without describing or narrating?
We don’t experience things in the present. We are experience and presence simultaneously without separation.
When we truly and honestly inquire into the present moment with open awareness, without concepts or definitions, we paradoxically find the inseparability of emptiness and...
Notice how we don’t experience time in the same way as we experience bodily sensations. When we really look for the experience of time, there’s...
““True freedom is the end of separation, this moment of life without ‘I’. The presence revealed through the absence of yourself. What remains is this...
Life lives us without effort. We need do nothing to be fully alive. We can’t stop it, we can’t make more of it. The present...
Can we take responsibility for the truth we find when we let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
You’re never going to win the argument you have with the universe.
Regarding Truth
“What stands in the way of self-remembering? Knowing that YOU are prior to the "YOU" that is created in time by thought … Regarding Truth”
When our minds are open and not constricted by the blinkers of small ego, we realise there is wisdom to be found everywhere from everything.
“Falling into openness—a dissolution of the psychological knot of ego—is the doorway to freedom. Amoda Maa”
If, sometimes, we must hold, hold lightly with gentle tenderness, full in the knowledge that that is what we are doing.
“Whatever state of mind you find yourself in, rather than focussing on the content or the description of it and all the mental/ emotional associations...
That which is undoubtedly here yet utterly inconceivable.
What seekers are seeking is not ‘out there’ beyond but right here, right now before everything, even prior to the seeker and the sought.
Nothing is fixed or stable including us and our fantastical flights of fancy about identity and self.
There is no mistaking the raw actuality of this moment, right here, right now. Everything else is fantasy.
