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Apr 8, 2025: Am I the only one who finds the Tapestry app ugly? I’m sure it’s technically amazing but it just looks horrible.
Apr 7, 2025: There’s a difference between being comfortable in your own skin and being pleased with yourself. The latter are almost always never the former.
Apr 4, 2025: The most pertinent questions AI raises are about us. What are we?
Apr 3, 2025: We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not …
Apr 2, 2025: Now, more than ever, cultivating resilience is perhaps our most important endeavour.
Apr 2, 2025: The ego is the workshop where the self is made. — Carl Jung
Apr 1, 2025: Experience is a spectrum not a hierarchy.
Mar 30, 2025: Good morning.
Mar 28, 2025: The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw
Mar 28, 2025: Despite being a massive fan of Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan I didn’t overly enjoy their stage production of Dr. Stranglove. It’s an odd show. …
Mar 28, 2025: Head in, bum out. Comfort.
Mar 25, 2025: “It is by no means certain that the man with good intentions is under all circumstances a good man. If he is not, then his best intentions will lead …
Mar 25, 2025: “When a man lacks self-knowledge, he can do the most astonishing or terrible things without calling himself to account and without ever suspecting …
Mar 24, 2025: Good morning pheasant.
Mar 23, 2025: This was 16 yesterday. No more mountains or hikes left in her but she keeps on trucking, ever more slowly, and making us laugh every day. Happy …
Mar 21, 2025: eveningSatoru Hasegawa https://gram.social/p/Tsbasatoru/808639683390295453
Mar 21, 2025: “Don’t try to create and analyse at the same time, they’re different processes.” — Corita Kent
Mar 20, 2025: The glory of a beautiful Spring day would not exist if not for all the bleak, grey winter ones that preceded it.
Mar 20, 2025: Investigate, question, examine, interrogate anything for long enough and sooner or later it disappears.
Mar 20, 2025: We educate and pass on our values to our children not by lecturing but by example, how we live, how we behave day in, day out.
Mar 20, 2025: We could almost be forgiven for thinking Spring is in the air…
Mar 20, 2025: A civil and humane society is held together and sustained less by its laws than by the everyday acts of kindness, compassion, generosity and care that …
Mar 17, 2025: Still cold here so jumper mode has been activated having been practically shaved this afternoon.
Mar 13, 2025: Tonight Toast bringing her door stop skills.
Mar 13, 2025: “The journey into the self, into the nameless and the formless, is first and last an act of abandonment.” — Know thyself
Mar 13, 2025: A still, cool and unnervingly quiet day out there… Off to see Mother Vera later at the Borderlines Film Festival later. Can’t wait!
Mar 10, 2025: Extraordinary. She’s not underneath anything.
Mar 10, 2025: Let no idea take you hostage lest you develop Stockholm syndrome to an ideology.
Mar 10, 2025: So, not altogether unpredictably I ended taking an unscheduled ice bath by falling into the brook! Although I won’t over dramatise, I’ll call it what …
Mar 10, 2025: Coffee first and then I have to chop/ prune/ wrestle a fallen tree out of the brook. Typically I have no waterproof footwear so it looks like I’ll …
Mar 10, 2025: I’m sorry but I have no idea what’s going on here.
Mar 9, 2025: Huh. Never heard of Próspera before until I read this. When hell looks like a Caribbean holiday.
Mar 7, 2025: “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” — Carl Jung
Mar 6, 2025: Humans are optimised for survival not truth.
Mar 6, 2025: One way and then the other.
Mar 5, 2025: Toast has claimed her spot and is not moving.
Mar 5, 2025: Another beautiful day out there. What feels like a balmy 12 degrees, a gorgeous blue sky scuffed with the merest wisps of hazy clouds. Just when I …
Mar 4, 2025: Lovely post, as always, from Mike Farley at An Open Ground. “Part of the trouble, it seems to me, is no more than the nature of mind itself. The self …
Mar 4, 2025: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick
Mar 4, 2025: “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
Mar 4, 2025: “I don’t know… I think I’d like to say only that they (children) should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I …
Mar 4, 2025: It’s become very clear that my mind is incapable of thinking geo-politically or in terms of Realpolitik.
Mar 4, 2025: “One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.” — Too-Ticky/ Tove Jansson
Mar 3, 2025: “Reality does not need to be solved. It does not require a conclusion. The mind may demand answers, but life itself moves effortlessly without them. …
Mar 3, 2025: Looking forward to this. So many comedy heroes, particularly Chris Morris. Imagine
Mar 3, 2025: “Why is it that so few people follow their own star? Why is the star such a heavy burden? Because following your own star means isolation, not …
Mar 3, 2025: I’ll take as many of these freezing, clear dawns as the universe can give.
Mar 1, 2025: If we really, really accept and embrace the reality of our finitude, our death; then our being, our aliveness needs no reason, explanation or …
Mar 1, 2025: Few things have upset me as much recently as seeing Trump and his henchmen ambush Zelensky in such a ruthlessly cruel, calculated and premeditated …
Mar 1, 2025: “Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.” — Carl Jung
Mar 1, 2025: Controversial/ contrarian opinion alert! Care is more important than love. I’ve seen so many people suffer unnecessarily both on the giving and …
Mar 1, 2025: If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Mar 1, 2025: A price is being paid by millions simply from one man growing up with wealth, privilege and opportunity yet brutalised by his father. The …
Mar 1, 2025: What a world. Went to bed last night having watched a tiny, frightened, weak and cowardly bully throw a tantrum with his fingers in his ears while a …
Feb 28, 2025: I absolutely adore this photo. NightSatoru Hasegawa https://gram.social/p/Tsbasatoru/801072319446988748
Feb 28, 2025: Went to a new meditation session this evening at the local yoga centre. Really good. Non-prescriptive, gentle guidance in a beautiful setting and well …
Feb 28, 2025: “Memory is a liar. It’s a heap of dog-eared, smudged, incessantly revised fictions.” — Peter Schjeldahl
Feb 27, 2025: Back to work tomorrow and it’s my weekend to work. Here’s hoping the sun keeps shining and the land gets a chance to dry out a bit. It’s so saturated …
Feb 27, 2025: There must always be humour. Some way, somehow humour must be allowed.
Feb 27, 2025: Zen doesn’t answer questions, it dissolves them.
Feb 27, 2025: It’s a beautiful day out there. A walk across the fields in the sunshine for coffee seems like a good idea.
Feb 26, 2025: “Meditation is not about becoming a better person or a more spiritual person. It’s about becoming a more honest person.” — Barry Magid, Ordinary …
Feb 26, 2025: Yew tunnel.
Feb 26, 2025: I enjoy Day One Journal’s On This Day feature popping up, as it does, entries from years past. The older the entries the more I don’t recognise the …
Feb 25, 2025: “You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” — Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
Feb 25, 2025: “The point of Zen is not to escape life, but to live it completely, to taste fully the richness, the sweetness, the bitterness, the sourness, and the …
Feb 25, 2025: The brook is back to running low and clear now.
Feb 25, 2025: It’s relatively easy to live with other people compared to living openly and honestly with oneself.
Feb 25, 2025: Whatever a tree does, whatever a fly does, whatever the sea does, whatever a penguin does, whatever a star does; we’re busy doing our version of it.
Feb 25, 2025: After the floods.
Feb 25, 2025: “Meditation/ contemplation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” — Alan Watts
Feb 24, 2025: I like being in art galleries in the same way I like being in churches. And I like having no idea why.
Feb 24, 2025: “If we have one job in times like this, it is to be bearers, through our careful grief, of love, of grace, of light even, into this present …
Feb 24, 2025: So, made it into work after all, dodging lots of standing water most of the way. Thought it would be much worse. Just goes to show you never can tell. …
Feb 23, 2025: The only teacher you need, and that never goes away, is the present moment.
Feb 23, 2025: The brook now running brown and a little faster and higher. Another twelve hours of this rain and we’ll have a full on raging torrent and widespread …
Feb 23, 2025: “It boils down to waking up moment to moment. Being present, open, unprotected. Allowing the tenderness, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, the love, …
Feb 23, 2025: Wet and windy out there so keeping warm and dry indoors watching the footie. Newcastle flying against Forest. Expecting similar from Liverpool vs. …
Feb 23, 2025: “And that to me is the healthy heart of contemplation (a.k.a. meditation). It’s an allowing. It’s a participation in the living truth that’s always …
Feb 22, 2025: I swapped the sea for mountains and rivers and thought I’d regret it but have never looked back.
Feb 22, 2025: Lovely evening watching our favourite local band, Peiriant, play a homecoming gig. And, bonus, discovered the local brewery have a new beer out!
Feb 22, 2025: What a glorious sunny day. Yoga, coffee, fixed gutter, coffee, fires, logs, laundry, 5k run, lunch and now taking the ancient hound for an incredibly …
Feb 22, 2025: ”Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?” — …
Feb 21, 2025: “…today’s ‘self-realisation’ might be tomorrow’s ‘what the hell was I thinking?’” — Robert Saltzman
Feb 21, 2025: There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
Feb 21, 2025: The whole idea of so-called ‘Productivity’ is, not only just plain bullshit, but a distraction from just getting on with stuff.
Feb 20, 2025: As I periodically do from time to time, I’ve mercilessly stripped out loads of feeds from my Reader. Feels good. Experimenting with just my absolute …
Feb 20, 2025: “The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.” — Henry James
Feb 20, 2025: Boredom is wanting something that isn’t there. Contentment is having everything when nothing is there.
Feb 19, 2025: Madrid are a cat toying with City as if they’re a mouse.
Feb 19, 2025: RMAMCI Game over…?
Feb 19, 2025: Apropos something completely unrelated, a couple of words popped up that accurately describe my attitude to the internet. Dabbler and dilettante.
Feb 19, 2025: As far as philosophy is concerned I’ve always thought Wittgenstein drew a rather neat line under the whole enterprise as we had come to understand it. …
Feb 19, 2025: Over the years (since around 1999) I’ve had countless blogs (ie. I’ve lost count). Using, in no particular order, Blogger, Moveable Type/ Typepad, …
Feb 19, 2025: Dog and bed in perfect harmony.
Feb 19, 2025: And home again.
Feb 19, 2025: Fires, logs, laundry, shopping, pharmacy, run and walk across the fields into town for coffee.
Feb 19, 2025: What stories and narratives of self will you be holding onto as you’re dying? Which begs the rather more urgent question, what are you holding onto …
Feb 19, 2025: Wow, a Red Kite just swooped down onto the road in front of me to grab a scrap of roadkill. I slowed right down but it flew off, its large wings …
Feb 19, 2025: “People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.” — Carl Jung
Feb 18, 2025: It’s a strange feeling being surrounded by people who seem to have a lot to say about everything when you have very little to say about anything.
Feb 18, 2025: “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Of course …
Feb 18, 2025: What an extraordinary morning. Seeing the actual sun for the first time in what feels like many weeks that the sky has been obscured by thick cloud. …
Feb 17, 2025: The specific qualities of experience pale in comparison to the simple presence of everything, the fact that anything is happening at all.
Feb 17, 2025: “Embrace your losses as fair payment for the surplus of being alive.” — Kieran Setiya
Feb 17, 2025: I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Evelyn Beatrice Hall via Scattershot
Feb 17, 2025: Never confuse your own character and personality with those of the society and culture in which you find yourself.
Feb 16, 2025: My favourite Prince anecdote comes from an interview when he was asked what Rolling Stones song he wished he’d written, to which answered ‘Miss You’. …
Feb 16, 2025: Been revisiting Prince for the first times in ages. For my money, throughout the six year period from ‘82 to ‘88 and the six albums – 1999, Purple …
Feb 16, 2025: Really savouring Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs. Great poet that she is, she manages to convey the human universal through the particularities of dogs.
Feb 16, 2025: “Awakening is highly overrated. And it is credited with a lot more than it is actually responsible for. Far more powerful than awakening, is the …
Feb 16, 2025: I’m finding it enormously freeing and conducive to a profound lightness of being to not try and hold onto and keep… well, anything really. What’s gone …
Feb 16, 2025: If one is in the business of finding answers to life then, if they exist at all, they surely reside within the full, unconditional embrace and …
Feb 16, 2025: Logs chopped and laundry done, now just time for coffee and cake before a late shift.
Feb 15, 2025: Only when that time comes, then and only then will we know what we will do and who we are.
Feb 15, 2025: Enough is more than everything.
Feb 14, 2025: Very happy with my Valentine gift from my wife.
Feb 14, 2025: The best advice ever: There’s what you should do, there’s what you shouldn’t do and there’s what you’re going to do anyway.
Feb 14, 2025: Not living anywhere near London anymore I’m really excited to have got tickets to see the National Theatre Live broadcast of Dr. Strangelove in our …
Feb 14, 2025: In terms of one’s immediate phenomenological experience in this moment, there is no difference between the memory of an actual experience you once had …
Feb 14, 2025: Woe betide anyone who thinks they know better.
Feb 13, 2025: …the right-populist turn seems to be the effect of improved material, and especially technological, conditions that, for better and for worse, have …
Feb 12, 2025: My wife is doing an MA in Contemporary Craft. This little window into academia is slowly but surely destroying her soul and will to live. It’s not …
Feb 11, 2025: “We suffer from the delusion that the entire universe is held in order by the categories of human thought.” — Alan Watts
Feb 11, 2025: Fire lit. Dog fed. Feet up. Footie on…
Feb 11, 2025: “Churches speak most convincingly when there’s no one in them.” — Keith Ashford
Feb 10, 2025: “Can we imagine a life with no content?” — More, please
Feb 10, 2025: Great episode of A New Way Of Being podcast, interview with Shiv Sengupta, a writer I have a lot of time for in matters of life, wisdom, spirituality …
Feb 10, 2025: A rainy, grey day. Yet there is egg, bacon and coffee at my local cafe before the cleaning of fires, chopping of logs and hopefully a run later…
Feb 9, 2025: Dog spillage.
Feb 9, 2025: “I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it.” — John Cage
Feb 8, 2025: So today was spent mostly getting dirty, taking stuff to the recycling centre, clearing up after the workmen and generally getting filthy and cold. …
Feb 6, 2025: The problem with pleasure.
Feb 6, 2025: So this old girl (16 in March) got her new meds and top up jabs (oh, and treat or two from the vet) this morning as well as getting dragged around …
Feb 6, 2025: Can’t believe I’ve only just now been introduced to the amazing Lola Young, thanks to my wife who has impeccable taste. I love this track in …
Feb 6, 2025: Our unconscious exerts itself on us whether we want it to or not. Indeed, the degree to which we think our life is guided by our so-called conscious …
Feb 6, 2025: “Both men are conspicuous for the degree to which they still resemble children, having retained a juvenile sense of entitlement, recklessness, and …
Feb 6, 2025: “You can’t define a person. You can’t sum anyone up. Life is non-summative—it is infinite.” — James Low
Feb 6, 2025: The Dark Enlightenment is now happening, live.
Feb 5, 2025: There is no avoiding anything. Everything reaches you in the end.
Feb 5, 2025: “The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one.” — Terence McKenna
Feb 4, 2025: “Original experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you’ve got to work out your life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can’t.” — …
Feb 3, 2025: What we are does not exist in language. Not everything has a story. Not everything needs a story.
Feb 2, 2025: In every fleeting moment question and answer are the same thing.
Feb 1, 2025: “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. …
Jan 31, 2025: Tonight is Severance night. Loved Season 1 and I’m carrying on watching it but I’m beginning to kind of sort of not care. Brilliant premise, no doubt, …
Jan 31, 2025: To bastardise/ rewrite Alan Watts: “Poetry is perhaps our greatest folly. The art of saying what cannot be said.”
Jan 31, 2025: Maturity, at any age, is nothing more than realising that both you and life are not what you thought they were and then accepting them exactly as they …
Jan 31, 2025: “If one is looking for final answers and somehow, unfortunately, finds them, that is religion, not wisdom, and blessed indeed is s(he) who knows the …
Jan 31, 2025: Feel I have to give another shout out to The Kissing of Kissing: Poems (Multiverse) by Hannah Emerson. Picked it up this morning and was, yet again, …
Jan 31, 2025: “When we live our life as a whole, there is no longer an aspect that gets singled out as ‘suffering’. — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
Jan 31, 2025: And suddenly the smallest mounds became hills to die on…
Jan 31, 2025: “No war was ever started by someone who couldn’t give a fuck either way.” — John Cooper Clarke
Jan 31, 2025: “How can I be substantial without casting a shadow? I must have a dark side too if I am to be whole; and by becoming conscious of my shadow I remember …
Jan 31, 2025: Nothing in particular to do today. Got a run of long shifts coming up so taking the opportunity to not do much of anything. Cold but bright out so …
Jan 31, 2025: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — Carl Jung
Jan 30, 2025: Yoga this evening was part brutal, part glorious with moments of hilarity. All life was there.
Jan 30, 2025: “Thus to enter a realm of immediate experience is most stimulating for those who have done their utmost in the personal and rational spheres of life …
Jan 30, 2025: “This may be no more than his household, his own tortured psyche, or the lives that he blights with the touch of his friendship and assistance; or it …
Jan 30, 2025: The one thing I know. I don’t know anything.
Jan 30, 2025: “One lives as one can…” — Carl Jung, Your questions are unanswerable
Jan 30, 2025: Today: cleaning out fires, chopping logs, laundry, signing off on our roof work and then maybe a 5k run later. It’s cold but the sun is shining and …
Jan 30, 2025: Not integrating and assimilating traditional ancient wisdom into the ordinary reality of your own lived experience would seem to be completely missing …
Jan 30, 2025: The closest I came to an esoteric or so-called spiritual experience when I was a child was when, from time to time, I would contemplate on the …
Jan 29, 2025: Another variation on the same theme. “Just being alive is enough.” — Shunryu Suzuki
Jan 29, 2025: The absurdity of accumulating and hanging onto items, things, stuff…
Jan 29, 2025: I love Joan Tollifson.
Jan 29, 2025: Flipboard’s new Surf app is all very nice now but it will just turn to shit, like Flipboard did, when the ads start showing up. If anyone is looking …
Jan 29, 2025: Consciousness and phenomena are so intertwined, interdependent and co-emergent as to be indistinguishable from each other – effectively the same. Not …
Jan 29, 2025: “Suffering doesn’t disappear from life, it disappears into life.” — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo.
Jan 28, 2025: Being/ life is exactly what it is, exactly what it appears to be in each moment and yet we have no idea what it is.
Jan 28, 2025: “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were …
Jan 28, 2025: Feet to the fire
Jan 28, 2025: The more one learns about the great spiritual traditions in tandem with examining the raw phenomenology of one’s own direct experience the more it …
Jan 28, 2025: SUERZA n. a feeling of quiet amazement that you exist at all; a sense of gratitude that you were even born in the first place, that you somehow …
Jan 28, 2025: Another saturated morning
Jan 27, 2025: “It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid …
Jan 27, 2025: Words always fail. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes catastrophically.
Jan 27, 2025: So. What a weekend. We had workmen doing repairs on the roof last week that didn’t get finished and it rained like crazy all weekend. Suffice it to …
Jan 26, 2025: The restless, seeking mind settles when it realises there’s nothing to find.
Jan 26, 2025: Get out of your own way and let yourself unfold…
Jan 26, 2025: “Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” — Samuel Beckett , The …
Jan 26, 2025: Looking forward to getting back to the meditation group tomorrow. A series of consecutive late shifts conspired to keep me away recently so it will be …
Jan 24, 2025: “No, it isn’t. No combination of words can be a fact because words are not facts and facts are not words. This revolts the word-addicted mind. Oh, …
Jan 23, 2025: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw
Jan 23, 2025: I don’t know if this makes any sense but, ‘react’ and ‘respond’ are not synonymous. For me a reaction is something instantaneous and conditioned, …
Jan 23, 2025: There’s no cure for being human.
Jan 23, 2025: Wherever we go, whatever we do we always take ourselves with us.
Jan 23, 2025: Sometimes there’s only one thing that matters.
Jan 22, 2025: And let’s not forget Toast in black and white…
Jan 22, 2025: Some old black and white photos…
Jan 22, 2025: Ignorance and certainty. Wisdom’s way: Believe nothing. Doubt everything. — Twins
Jan 21, 2025: “To remain still, to turn from knowing to simple awareness – without choosing, without direction, in open unknowing – really, that is all that is …
Jan 20, 2025: “I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” — Mark Twain
Jan 20, 2025: “In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.” — Boethius
Jan 20, 2025: If we allow them the vicissitudes of life make us instead of break us.
Jan 20, 2025: “Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.” — Carl Jung
Jan 20, 2025: “The advantage of so-called ‘free will’ is indeed so obvious that civilized man is easily persuaded to leave his whole life to the guidance of …
Jan 20, 2025: The best teacher is always the present moment no matter what is happening.
Jan 20, 2025: Feel what you feel, don’t feel what you think.
Jan 20, 2025: You can’t edit life. You’re either all in or all out.
Jan 20, 2025: Look close enough and all things disappear.
Jan 19, 2025: The problem is all the arguments and conflicts between people who think they have the ultimate answers to the big existential questions when, of …
Jan 19, 2025: Booked tickets to see Robert Eggers' remake of Nosferatu on Tuesday. Can’t wait!
Jan 19, 2025: As much as I love his films, I can’t get enough of David Lynch’s paintings and photography either…
Jan 19, 2025: Sadly I’m struggling to find a way to watch David Lynch’s Eraserhead and Lost Highway. It seems they’re both unavailable to view in the UK. Such a …
Jan 19, 2025: “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. It would not help you very much to study books only, it …
Jan 18, 2025: “Man’s fate has always swung between day and night. There is nothing we can do to change this.” — Carl Jung
Jan 18, 2025: “Deeply ingrained in the infantile psyche is the conscious or unconscious assumption that the cure for depression is to replace it with pleas and …
Jan 18, 2025: Good morning from The Dead.
Jan 17, 2025: Current status: Coffee before work
Jan 17, 2025: “We should not try to “get rid” of a neurosis, but rather to experience what it means, what it has to teach, what its purpose is . We should even …
Jan 17, 2025: “If you look for meaning, you miss what happens.” — Andrei Tarkovsky
Jan 16, 2025: Can’t fault her commitment to keeping the door open rather than relaxing in her bed.
Jan 16, 2025: RIP David Lynch. Things were never quite the same after seeing Eraserhead.
Jan 16, 2025: “Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.” — Susan …
Jan 16, 2025: No matter how small and simple a life may appear to be, it is whole and infinite.
Jan 16, 2025: We are not Black Holes. Our darkness does not consume light. Rich and fertile, it is the very stuff out of which our light is made.
Jan 16, 2025: “Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.” — Carl Jung
Jan 15, 2025: “…we uncover the essential impermanence of everything that arises; and that of course includes ourselves. Once this is seen – truly seen, not just …
Jan 15, 2025: ‘Just enough’ technology seems exactly the right amount. Or of anything for that matter.
Jan 15, 2025: The only way I found that successfully dealt with the whole To Do/ Tasks/ Lists farrago was to get rid of them altogether. No system, no lists, no …
Jan 15, 2025: The new Reeder app is an extraordinary product I can highly recommend. A unified timeline of just about anything on the open web: RSS, the Fediverse, …
Jan 15, 2025: Happy hound.
Jan 15, 2025: It’s that time…
Jan 15, 2025: Where would we be without the darkness?
Jan 15, 2025: The problems caused by thought are not solved by more thinking.
Jan 15, 2025: All the problems we face, ranging from the most intimate and private right through to the biggest issues facing our societies, all stem originally …
Jan 15, 2025: “When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance.” — Henry Miller
Jan 15, 2025: “Words, like the hands of a skilled bodyworker, can draw your attention to something previously unseen or overlooked. Something is illuminated, …
Jan 15, 2025: The complete yet ongoing experience that there is anything happening at all (whatever the flavour, tone or feeling) is enough, expresses everything …
Jan 15, 2025: Mostly spending today chopping wood and carrying water… 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 14, 2025: I am incredibly prejudiced. When I see the ‘technical advisors and custodians’ of Free Our Feeds looking all slick, professional and LinkedIn, I get …
Jan 14, 2025: Highly recommend this book of astonishing poems. The Kissing of Kissing: Poems (Multiverse) by Hannah Emerson. A direct descendant of Ralph Waldo …
Jan 14, 2025: Letting this sleeping dog lie. 🐕
Jan 14, 2025: “The mind chases experiences the way a dog chases squirrels: compulsively. The mind thinks (thinks!) that the more experiences it has, the smarter it …
Jan 13, 2025: 📷
Jan 13, 2025: “Love is an action. But the action happens by itself. There is no doer. Love is not an activity; it’s the centre of the wheel. There’s no ‘me’ in it, …
Jan 13, 2025: Working the late shift again tonight so no meditation group tonight sadly. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 13, 2025: There are no other lives that any of us could be living. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 12, 2025: 📷
Jan 12, 2025: “A political situation is the manifestation of a parallel psychological problem in millions of individuals. This problem is largely unconscious (which …
Jan 12, 2025: “It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid …
Jan 11, 2025: Really trying my hardest to watch Megalopolis but I fear Coppola might have left us with, as his parting gift to cinema, the most unwatchable film …
Jan 11, 2025: None of these clever, well written books have the answer because there are no answers. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 11, 2025: We can never know what we are. We can only be what we are. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 11, 2025: In the spirit of prevention being better than cure I think it behooves all of us to acknowledge our own personal darkness/ shadow. Not just for our …
Jan 11, 2025: 📷
Jan 11, 2025: Always open, never landing… 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 11, 2025: 📷
Jan 10, 2025: The divine right of tech billionaires… The Dark Enlightenment
Jan 10, 2025: There are no absolutes, ultimates or fundamentals in nature – only at the limits of our perceptions. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 10, 2025: Every single life is expressing something. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 10, 2025: 📷
Jan 10, 2025: Well, well. How serendipitous! No more than a couple of hours after my earlier post this quote falls into my lap. “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born …
Jan 10, 2025: Ouch! Managed to ‘brand’ my arm on the door of the log burner last night. It hurt at the time but it really hurts this morning. 🤦♂️
Jan 10, 2025: Cold Cold Ground 🎵
Jan 10, 2025: Brilliant, as ever, from @annie ”In my experience, having courage feels like a cross between bungee jumping without a cord and giving a speech while …
Jan 10, 2025: “I don’t know” sounds like an ending but is actually always the best place to start… 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 9, 2025: The only way is through… 📷
Jan 9, 2025: The best teacher of all is the present moment. 🧘♂️ ☯️
Jan 9, 2025: She’s shy… 📷 🐕
Jan 9, 2025: Getting back to yoga tonight was such good feeling. A really nice vibe with some lovely guys in a beautiful setting. I consider myself very lucky. …
Jan 9, 2025: 📷
Jan 9, 2025: I am grateful for a life that is small but infinite. 🧘♂️☯️
Jan 9, 2025: Thinking about the cost of being persistently aware of global news about which we can have no input, involvement or influence. There seems to be mass …
Jan 9, 2025: This. The only true goal is boredom Minus the incorrect assertion that Buddhism seeks to detach one from desire. No. Buddhism advocates that we allow …
Jan 9, 2025: Freezing dawn.
Jan 8, 2025: Toast in her happy place, on a sheepskin rug. 15 years, 10 months and counting… 🐕
Jan 8, 2025: For me meditation and contemplation are synonymous. Practice is continuous in the midst of life. To misquote Alan Watts: “Zen is life, not something …
Jan 8, 2025: Another beautiful post from Mike Farley, this time on impermanence and the interdependence of life and death. The truth can only heal 🧘♂️☯️
Jan 8, 2025: Here’s to the new Reeder app Time for a long overdue shout out to the new Reeder app. I haven’t seen Iconfactory’s Project Tapestry yet but if you’re after a unified timeline app …
Jan 8, 2025: Just seen A Real Pain. A good movie. Learned that Kieran Culkin is brilliant at playing himself. Thought he was perfection in Succession and great in …
Jan 8, 2025: A busy day, a long walk and now a roaring fire…
Jan 8, 2025: Snow still lingering on the high ground.
Jan 8, 2025: Very curious to see Roberts Eggers’ Nosferatu remake. Mixed reviews but I always enjoy his work, particularly loved The Witch. 🎥🎞️🍿
Jan 7, 2025: “What we’re really in the business of doing is helping people stay with the thoughts and feelings they are coming to meditation to escape.” Barry …
Jan 7, 2025: Optimum evening posture
Jan 7, 2025: Happy to have booked my first yoga class of the year. It will be good to get back on the mat regularly. 🧘♂️
Jan 7, 2025: I’m enjoying the slow pace of micro.blog. And the lack of likes and follower counts and ‘re-posts’ and all the other insane ‘incentives’ mainstream …
Jan 7, 2025: A blast from the past on the drive home this evening. 🎵
Jan 7, 2025: 🧘♂️
Jan 6, 2025: When work is flow it’s no longer work.
Jan 6, 2025: “When there is nothing left, the way opens. Only when you can sit still in the ruins of all you had lived for, and see what is actually there, can you …
Jan 6, 2025: 🧘♂️
Jan 6, 2025: “Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there.” — Aldous Huxley 🧘♂️
Jan 6, 2025: Only just made it in to work this morning. The combination of snow melt and overnight rain has caused widespread flooding. Some roads were only just …
Jan 5, 2025: So it was the snow which caused problems yesterday and now and tomorrow it will be snow melt plus heavy rain equaling floods. Hey ho…
Jan 5, 2025: 🧘♂️
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Jan 5, 2025: Melting already.
Jan 4, 2025: Just made it home as the snow started to settle and deepen. Switched to a later shift tomorrow so hopefully the rain will have cleared the worst by …
Jan 4, 2025: “Thoughts arise and fall as flowers live and wilt. Stars fade over eons in the night sky and clouds pass and change. Everything is changing all the …
Jan 4, 2025: 📷
Jan 4, 2025: Listening to Zen teacher and psychoanalyst Barry Magid’s Ordinary Mind. Excellent so far. Within minutes I belatedly learned the difference between …
Jan 4, 2025: This seemed like a suitable companion for the cold and dark drive to work this morning. “Dark and long…” 😉 🎵
Jan 4, 2025: “Zen is feeling life, not something about life.” — Alan Watts 🧘♂️
Jan 4, 2025: Experience without language. Wordless being. 🧘♂️
Jan 4, 2025: Thoughts and feelings are not a problem. Believing they are is. 🧘♂️
Jan 3, 2025: Can’t believe it’s a year since I last watched Luke Littler in the final of the PDC World Championship. Can he win it this time…? Such a lot has …
Jan 3, 2025: “Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we …
Jan 3, 2025: “Remembering and fiction-making are virtually indistinguishable.” “Remembering his country, he imagined it.” — David Shields
Jan 3, 2025: “I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the …
Jan 3, 2025: Really want to read this (and watch the companion documentary on Amazon). David Shields is one of my favourite writers. I quote him often.
Jan 3, 2025: She made it through another year but not sure she’ll make another one… 🐕
Jan 3, 2025: It’s cold outside but not in here.
Jan 3, 2025: Just checking the weather for the next couple of days and it looks like I could quite easily get snow stranded at work!
Jan 3, 2025: Tucking into my favourite Xmas present.
Jan 3, 2025: Probably the most underrated feeling or state of mind that contributes subtlety but most powerfully to mental health and contentment is gratitude. …
Jan 3, 2025: Morning
Jan 3, 2025: The fire is slowly dying for the night…
Jan 3, 2025: So here we go with micro.blog… Haven’t the faintest how I’ll use it or if I even will. First impressions seem to indicate that it lends itself to …
Jan 8, 2023: We become what we give our attention to.
Jan 8, 2023: Let the nettle sting be. Who are we to claim it as ours?
Jan 8, 2023: When we truly lose the overbearing sense of a self, what is left naturally inclines towards others.
Jan 8, 2023: When we say we can’t take anymore what we’re really saying is we don’t want anymore.
Jan 8, 2023: Don’t wait to be taught. Let your own intuition and insights guide you.
Jan 8, 2023: Words and images have meaning in contrast to reality which simply is meaning.
Jan 8, 2023: The real benefits of contemplative inquiry appear when we let go of acquiring any.
Jan 8, 2023: It’s the holding on that hurts, not the letting go.
Jan 8, 2023: Beware spiritual materialism. The subtle, seductive tendency to turn the formless, not only into form, but to elevate and separate that form above and …
Jan 7, 2023: It is what we do when we don’t know, don’t understand what we are doing.
Jan 7, 2023: 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 …
Jan 7, 2023: The eternal unfolding of the infinite everything includes the arising of the futile attempts to describe it. A ruler trying to measure itself.
Jan 7, 2023: Can we be still and attend to this open awareness without describing or narrating?
Jan 7, 2023: We don’t experience things in the present. We are experience and presence simultaneously without separation.
Jan 7, 2023: When we truly and honestly inquire into the present moment with open awareness, without concepts or definitions, we paradoxically find the …
Jan 7, 2023: 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 …
Jan 7, 2023: “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 …
Jan 7, 2023: 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 unfolding of everything as …
Jan 6, 2023: Can we take responsibility for the truth we find when we let go of wanting things to be other than they are?
Jan 6, 2023: 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.
Jan 5, 2023: I love this insight from Amoda Maa: “…the willingness to surrender the argument with what is: to meet reality without resistance…”
Jan 5, 2023: “Falling into openness—a dissolution of the psychological knot of ego—is the doorway to freedom.” Amoda Maa
Jan 5, 2023: If, sometimes, we must hold, hold lightly with gentle tenderness, full in the knowledge that that is what we are doing.
Jan 4, 2023: 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 …
Jan 4, 2023: That which is undoubtedly here yet utterly inconceivable.
Jan 3, 2023: What seekers are seeking is not ‘out there’ beyond but right here, right now before everything, even prior to the seeker and the sought.
Jan 3, 2023: Nothing is fixed or stable including us and our fantastical flights of fancy about identity and self.
Jan 3, 2023: There is no mistaking the raw actuality of this moment, right here, right now. Everything else is fantasy.
Jan 2, 2023: If we attend closely and carefully enough we can observe how we take refuge and hide and imprison ourselves in emotion, however painful or unpleasant …
Jan 2, 2023: All forms reveal emptiness and emptiness reveals all forms. Not two, not oneness, just difference unseparated.
Jan 1, 2023: As ever, beginning again.
Dec 30, 2022: Attend to the present moment carefully and closely enough and find everything that happens appears in awareness out of nowhere and then either changes …
Dec 30, 2022: The present moment will never let you down. Everything else will.
Dec 30, 2022: The fear of death is the same as any other story we believe to be true. Just a story we have made up to escape the raw actuality of the unknown, that …
Dec 29, 2022: This, this that is undeniable, self evident and simply here is ungraspable and without form or boundary. All art is the attempt to express the …
Dec 29, 2022: All memories pale in comparison to the vibrant, visceral actuality of this moment of vivid aliveness.
Dec 29, 2022: Thinking - the original virtual reality.
Dec 29, 2022: We attribute fixed meanings to the ever changing phenomenal world. No wonder all meanings fail in the end and leave us bereft. Wisdom reveals that …
Dec 29, 2022: Pleasure or pain. Relaxation or anxiety. There is nothing confusing about the present moment until we start thinking about it.
Dec 29, 2022: Awareness is not beyond doubt or question because it is already present before either arise.
Dec 28, 2022: “Feel your feet on the ground – listen and look.” John Butler
Dec 28, 2022: Awareness includes everything and clings to nothing. We might call that unconditional love. Joan Tollifson
Dec 28, 2022: Who exactly are you filing that complaint with?
Dec 28, 2022: What does the statement: ‘I deserve…(insert what you think you deserve) actually mean?
Dec 28, 2022: In the the condition of empty awareness, when the illusion of ego self is clearly seen through, what needs to be done next becomes miraculously clear …
Dec 28, 2022: Difference without separation.
Dec 28, 2022: Thinking negatively, thinking positively - it’s still all just magical thinking and prone to the natural transience of all things.
Dec 27, 2022: Nothing special. Ordinary awareness in the midst of life.
Dec 27, 2022: There is nothing we can think that can solve the problems that thought creates.
Dec 27, 2022: We love to meet the stories we hear with our own stories instead of just sharing the truth of what is here now for all of us.
Dec 27, 2022: See through the leading character (the ego) in our story and the whole narrative collapses.
Dec 27, 2022: You Don’t Have To Suffer Anymore You Don’t Have To Suffer Anymore
Dec 27, 2022: Time is Thought Time is Thought by Dr Amy Johnson
Dec 27, 2022: No path, no way, no method, no technique that endures. Everything changes. Only the ever present raw actuality of this moment reveals the empty …
Dec 27, 2022: This timeless present moment of eternal reality right now reveals everything we need to know about our fantasies of the past and of the future.
Dec 27, 2022: We can recognise a great teaching to be true when it points away from itself to the heart of truth within all of us.
Dec 27, 2022: Buddhism isn’t about becoming a Buddhist or even Buddhism. It’s about recognising the nature of your own mind, on your own evidence, in your own life, …
Dec 27, 2022: When truly sought Even the seeker cannot be found. Thereupon the goal of the seeking is attained, And the end of the search. At this point there is …
Dec 26, 2022: Listen, trust and learn from yourself. Ultimately we are our own best teachers.
Dec 24, 2022: I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it. John Cage
Dec 24, 2022: Shifting out of our world of images and stories about ourselves and the world is simple but hard, because there are no images or stories of being …
Dec 24, 2022: If we are anything we may say we are fields of potentiality.
Dec 24, 2022: We can discover everything we need to know about ourselves by observing how we behave when no one is looking.
Dec 24, 2022: The universe includes us but isn’t about us.
Dec 24, 2022: Others suffer because we suffer.
Dec 23, 2022: Everything minus the ego.
Dec 23, 2022: The non dual condition is fundamentally paradoxical. As quantum phenomena are real but make no sense, the non dual perspective confounds its own …
Dec 22, 2022: ‘Awareness’ is a word that points to the seeing that is never divided into seer and seen. Joan Tollifson
Dec 21, 2022: Walking into each moment without history or expectation.
Dec 19, 2022: The only way one really gets any of the most important benefits of meditation practice is by giving up on the notion that there are any benefits to …
Dec 17, 2022: Enlightenment is the end of the one who cares about being enlightened or unenlightened.
Dec 17, 2022: What is beyond doubt takes no effort to maintain.
Dec 16, 2022: “The entirety of practical spirituality consists of distinguishing fantasy from actuality. Spirituality is the art of distinguishing fantasy from …
Dec 16, 2022: The entirety of practical spirituality consists of distinguishing fantasy from actuality. The spiritual problem consists of not being able to …
Dec 16, 2022: This. This, that is utterly inconceivable and yet totally obvious and impossible to avoid. Joan Tollifson
Dec 16, 2022: Thoughts are stories. Emotions are energy. Connect the two and cling to either or both creates suffering. To see through them and show their essential …
Dec 15, 2022: Stories are sophisticated patterns and we have evolved to create patterns out of chaos to survive. What we haven’t learned to do, yet, is recognise …
Dec 15, 2022: We are constantly told that we love stories. I would amend that to; we are addicted to stories. Stories create meaning but meaning is comforting and …
Dec 15, 2022: Nihilism is just another story. Open awareness is that which is prior to, and allows for, all stories to appear and disappear as they inevitably will. …
Dec 15, 2022: The fewer stories and narratives we have running in our minds the freer we become.
Dec 15, 2022: As open awareness, walking along a deserted beach or a tranquil field is no different than being in the midst of the teeming cacophony of a busy city. …
Dec 15, 2022: Whatever this is, cannot be pulled apart, divided or separated.
Dec 14, 2022: Liberation is the aliveness and immediacy beyond belief. Liberation is when all the answers, explanations and positions disappear, and what remains is …
Dec 14, 2022: Since our first breath thoughts, feelings, concepts, ideas and experiences have come and gone over and and over and over. The open space of awareness …
Dec 14, 2022: This is always it.
Dec 13, 2022: Suffering is feedback, showing us that we’re attached to ideas and thoughts that appear true, but aren’t… Attachment to Ideas is Supposed to Hurt
Dec 13, 2022: If we persist in looking to get or obtain something, anything from ourselves, others and the world then we miss that everything that happens is an …
Dec 13, 2022: What stories are we going to believe and invest in about ourselves and the world today? What forms and patterns will we think are real and permanent? …
Dec 13, 2022: Thoughts, ideas, theories, concepts, and stories are all for nought without the rigorous practice of bare attention to this moment.
Dec 12, 2022: What is fear of death but a complicated tangle of images and stories about everything except the present moment of actual aliveness.
Dec 12, 2022: Dissolving or seeing through the fabricated ego self automatically frees us from craving and addiction as there is no one to do any wanting. The …
Dec 11, 2022: Allow everything without holding onto anything.
Dec 11, 2022: Egos meet and remain separate but open, aware minds share presence.
Dec 11, 2022: As Beckett was exquisitely aware, all language fails attempting to capture the formless absolute.
Dec 10, 2022: Enlightenment, awakening, recognition, realisation, whatever, is not an answer, has no answers because it precedes all questions making the very …
Dec 10, 2022: Deconstructing the self automatically opens us to boundless possibilities.
Dec 9, 2022: Myriad holograms of meaning come and go, arise and fade away over and over and over and yet the ungraspable openness in which this occurs is always …
Dec 9, 2022: No arrival, no conclusion, no ending, just perpetual freshness and unknowing.
Dec 9, 2022: This includes us but is not about us.
Dec 9, 2022: The illusion of a spiritual journey is just more hinderance, more occlusion of the infinite ground which is always right here, right now.
Dec 9, 2022: ‘Symbols and conventions can be used for awareness rather than for developing worldly attitudes to becoming some kind of Buddhist.’ Ajahn Sumedho …
Dec 9, 2022: With complete recognition of open awareness the need for the crutches of meaning, purpose and identification evaporate.
Dec 8, 2022: Data, information, knowledge - none have anything to do with wisdom.
Dec 8, 2022: In spite of the famous phrase: ‘There must be more to life than this’, there is actually no more to life than this. There is no more aliveness to be …
Dec 8, 2022: The infinite — the only condition where logic and paradox dwell without conflict.
Dec 8, 2022: There are infinite ways to recognise the infinite.
Dec 8, 2022: Things to be interested in come and go but the raw unmediated actuality of the present moment is always right here and can be of the greatest …
Dec 8, 2022: Whenever we look, whatever we witness is simply what is here now and that is always everything and more than enough to be with, to work with to leave …
Dec 8, 2022: Trust not knowing.
Dec 6, 2022: Words and images, words and images, so many, seemingly endless words and images describing and depicting just more words and images; all obscuring the …
Dec 6, 2022: The problems of thought are not clarified by more thinking. A ruler trying to measure itself…
Dec 4, 2022: No hope nor fear here. Just what is.
Nov 27, 2022: Nothing here now will remain.
Nov 27, 2022: The weather alters our mood only to the extent to which we indulge the ideas and concepts that it can. To a mind free of such notions the weather is …
Nov 26, 2022: There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
Nov 26, 2022: Here language always fails. Sometimes beautifully, sometimes less so But always unable to touch what it reaches for
Nov 26, 2022: The anxiety and fear of a week ago is gone. Traces remain as ever-diminishing memory. Then as now, it was, is and will only ever be movements of …
Nov 26, 2022: Cold. Darkness. Street lights. Stillness. An alarm. Distant shouting. The merest hint of dawn.
Nov 25, 2022: There is no right or wrong time nor right or wrong place.
Nov 24, 2022: Open. Open to what is. Open to what is not. Open to everything and open to nothing at all. Open to life and open to death. Open, open, open…
Nov 24, 2022: Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death… What is the Zen attitude towards death?
Nov 24, 2022: None of this is about happiness or sadness, joy or sorrow, hope or despair per se. It is whatever we find when we attend to this, and this moment …
Nov 23, 2022: This includes us but is not about us.
Nov 23, 2022: The ordinary. The everyday. The shit on my shoe.
Nov 22, 2022: Break the identification with thought and there is simply what is, and that includes thought too.
Nov 22, 2022: To say that one is ‘spiritual’ is just more identification with something, sometimes any ‘thing’ that will do. Spirituality points away from itself to …
Nov 22, 2022: What is sought is not beyond. It is that which is already fully present before anything. Before joy, before sadness, before pain, before bliss, before …
Nov 22, 2022: There is nothing to be gained… that is all. There is nothing to be gained.
Nov 22, 2022: There is no more or less life to be had anywhere other than right here, right now.
Nov 22, 2022: Wherever and however we are is where must always begin again.
Nov 22, 2022: Not knowing is true wisdom.
Nov 22, 2022: Meditation techniques are easy to practise because they have a form. Awareness is harder because it has no form. Anon
Nov 22, 2022: Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion — the nonduality of true and untrue. Longchenpa
Nov 22, 2022: The truth of the moment is beyond all thoughts, all feelings, all ideas, all concepts, all systems, all traditions and is only ever right here, right …
Nov 22, 2022: Doing nothing but with full attention and awareness.
Nov 22, 2022: Once you realise you’re distracted, that you’ve been thinking without knowing you’ve been thinking, everything can begin to change.
Nov 22, 2022: Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person's imaginary friends. Sam Harris
Nov 22, 2022: Nowhere to go but here. All journeys lead home.
Nov 22, 2022: If I am anything, I am the totality of everything and nothing that is and isn’t happening in this moment.
Nov 22, 2022: Hanging, weightless in open awareness.
Nov 22, 2022: Clinging to no tradition. Seeing through each of them to the common unicity of all of them.
Nov 21, 2022: Darkness, wind and rain. The drip, drip, drip from a broken gutter.
Nov 20, 2022: The dark night of the unknown. The steps one knows one has to take and the associated fear.
Nov 20, 2022: Responsibility.
Nov 19, 2022: I feel this is the heart of meditation: Simply being interested in what is here – being more interested in what is… than in what was, what will be, or …
Nov 18, 2022: The dog, snoring at my feet. Loud chatter coming through the wall from next door. The smell of coffee and of smoke from the unlit fire. A new, …
Nov 17, 2022: The silence of not knowing.
Nov 16, 2022: No doer nor nothing to be done.
Nov 16, 2022: No thought can improve what is already here.
Nov 15, 2022: We don’t have ideas, ideas have us. Carl Jung
Nov 15, 2022: In times of trauma I have no idea what I’m doing except somehow saving myself.
Nov 15, 2022: Sitting, wondering at the beauty of existence but also inquiring into the horrors here too.
Nov 15, 2022: Pain yet complete aliveness.
Nov 15, 2022: What is the duration of this moment? Does it last only until the the next instance of inattention?
Nov 15, 2022: This is always it.
Nov 15, 2022: Roaring tinnitus this morning in my now blocked, deaf left ear. My experience of the world is now temporarily different and yet the open awareness of …
Nov 14, 2022: A solitary lamp illuminating the corner of the room. Ringing, hissing tinnitus; shrill, clean and precise.
Nov 14, 2022: I am very lucky to have a job in which I spend most of the time in a state of flow. No distracting, pointless, discursive inner monologue. Someway, …
Nov 14, 2022: Noticing that which would otherwise have gone unrecognised.
Nov 13, 2022: This is neither special nor ordinary as these words are referring to that which defies all descriptions and labels. The noise coming through the wall …
Nov 13, 2022: AE’s clear, bright eyes. Full of life lacking nothing but sight.
Nov 13, 2022: Each of us has our own story about death and grief but in the end that’s all they are. Distracting images and tall tales about everything but what is. …
Nov 12, 2022: One fire unfolding as infinite flames.
Nov 12, 2022: The fire again. Crackling and sputtering a fuss over damp logs. The dog is here, still but watchful. Dinner past, we sit in silence and read.
Nov 12, 2022: Snoozing…
Nov 12, 2022: There is no Buddhism here, no Zen, no Advaita, no Dzogchen, no awakening, no enlightenment, no spirituality, no tradition, no duality or non duality. …
Nov 12, 2022: The raw, unmediated pain of grief of an individual I support at work. There are few if no words that can meet such anguish. Simple unseparated …
Nov 12, 2022: Nowhere to go but here, where everything and nothing already are.
Nov 12, 2022: Birth, life and death are not personal but we make them so Who are we to claim them as our own? These miracles of the universe are free to come and go …
Nov 12, 2022: On my way to work this morning, just letting everything unfold without explanation, rhyme or reason: the toot of a horn, the calls of the gulls, the …
Nov 12, 2022: Early start. Still dark. Silence but for the ticking clock and the hum of the fridge.
Nov 12, 2022: An evening spent in good conversation with my wonderful wife. Happily fuelled by a bottle of Baileys and a sporadically puttering open fire thanks to …