Uncategorized
There are people, I know, who like to sweeten everything – otherwise, they can't swallow it. That's what hope of improvement is, a kind of sweetener, imaginary of course, for those who find life too bitter to swallow straight up. Whether you call the sweetener Heaven with Jesus, nonduality, salvation, or enlightenment, it's all the same poison.
Robert Saltzman
As always a tiring but rewarding day at work. Never a dull moment.
Is there really any depth?
I keep finding myself returning to the insight that ‘depth’ is just another idea/ concept and not something phenomenological that is experienced directly.
In my experience everything that is directly felt happens only on this plane of appearances in awareness.
I can find no evidence of anything else happening anywhere else other than right here, right now.
After the snow
The sky clears
The day awakens
My twelve hour shift begins
This is not work, this is being
Joy
Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy.
Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.
It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.
Joy
Everything is an aspect of everything else.
Everything is an aspect of everything else.
Everything is an aspect of everything else.
Sitting quietly
Sitting quietly
in my car
Drinking coffee
Cars hiss in the distance
Nothing to be done
Cold, dark, peaceful
Up at 6.30am. Dark, quiet, still and minus two degrees. I practically meditate on my thirty minute drive to work. The road is mostly quiet but for the occasional car, lorry or tractor. I stop for a takeaway coffee ten minutes in.
The country road winds gently and the drive takes on a rhythmical flow.
I love this part of the day.
Complete peace.
We’re always looking for diamonds in the mud. But the mud itself is pretty interesting. That’s what Zen is about. The mud.
Mel Weitsman
We’re always looking for diamonds in the mud. But the mud itself is pretty interesting. That’s what Zen is about. The mud.
Mel Weitsman
We’re always looking for diamonds in the mud. But the mud itself is pretty interesting. That’s what Zen is about. The mud.
Mel Weitsman
Whatever path was taken it led directly here from here.
Whatever path was taken it led directly here from here.
Whatever path was taken it led directly here from here.
There are no other lives that any of us could be living.
There are no other lives that any of us could be living.
There are no other lives that any of us could be living.
We wake up in our own way, in our own time, to our own life.