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What we are does not exist in language.
Zen koans paradoxically use language to demonstrate the absurdity and futility of language in recognising the nature of mind.
Initially we can see there is the territory and the map. Then we see through the map and recognise it is just more territory. And then, at a certain point, we see through the territory itself and realise there is nothing fixed or stable, just perpetual flux, of which we are an indivisible aspect.
Dzogchen according to James Low
Dzogchen is a particular flavour of Tibetan Buddhism. Its essential insights into the nature of mind can appear somewhat arcane. But not in the hands of Scottish translator and teacher James Low.
In his newly released podcast James Low - Dzogchen and Buddhist Teachings he manages to communicate the most esoteric of teachings in a most ordinary and down to earth fashion.
View from the sofa. I can’t move. I’m practically in a coma.
I’m listening to my wife play Monument Valley 3 and I feel like I’ve had a full body massage I’m so relaxed.
Modern luxury is the ability to think clearly, sleep deeply, move slowly, and live quietly in a world designed to prevent all four.
— Justin Welsh
Just as a man still is what he always was, so he already is what he will become. The conscious mind does not embrace the totality of a man, for this totality consists only partly of his conscious contents, and for the other and far greater part, of his unconscious, which is of indefinite extent with no assignable limits. In this totality the conscious mind is contained like a smaller circle within a larger one. Hence it is quite possible for the ego to be made into an object, that is to say, for a more compendious personality to emerge in the course of development and take the ego into its service.
— Carl Jung
Everything is precisely, exactly as it is, but doesn't arrive anywhere. There's no conclusion. It's pattern after pattern after pattern.
— James Low
I’ve heard so many people who are living with a cancer that is going to take them away say that there is a vernacular around battle terminology: You’re a winner or you’re a loser. It’s all about fighting. It’s such a red herring, that attitude, because it brings with it the concept that we might win…
— Tilda Swinton (from the New York Times)
A way of liberation can have no positive definition.
It has to be suggested by saying what it is not.
— Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
How old am I? I AM forever. As old as I’ve always been.
With Bluesky’s current explosive growth, now seems like a good time to run a mile.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
— Meister Eckhart
Wrapping both Jung and Zen up in a neat package.
If you do one thing today, open your hand and heart and let go of whatever you’re holding onto. What we want is happy to go, what we need arises without desire.
