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There is nothing mysterious about what is happening but there is only mystery about how and why.
There is nothing mysterious about what is happening but there is only mystery about how and why.
There is only what is apparent here, now. Everything else is imagination.
Depth is a seductive illusion. Silence too. There is always some sound, sensation or whisp of thought happening. Mind is never totally absent. This felt presence always consists of something however fleeting, to be replaced with some other passing phenomenal wave.
No matter what is going on in our mind; confusion, peace, anxiety, clarity, contraction, spaciousness, pain, wholeness etc. none of it is special, unique or of a higher or lesser order than any other – it’s all just aspects of our aliveness happening as it will – and all we have to do is recognise and accept it all with gratitude.
We don’t have a relationship with thought or the world. We are thought, we are the phenomenal world. There’s no here and there, no split, no duality.
Individuality or personality traits are not about being unique or differentiated from other individuals but more about the myriad variations and flavours of the whole – the totality of everything – not separate isolated parts.
We’re not meant to be happy any more than we’re meant to be in pain. We’re not meant to be anything in particular. We just happen to be whatever occurs.
We’re not meant to be happy any more than we’re meant to be in pain. We’re not meant to be anything in particular. We just happen to be whatever occurs.
We’re not meant to be happy any more than we’re meant to be in pain. We’re not meant to be anything in particular. We just happen to be whatever occurs.
Philosophy is its own problem. Reality is absolutely fine without it.
The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.
The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.
The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.
We are not required to attain anything, I say. Nothing. This is not a test. When that is seen, one can relax.
Robert Saltzman
We are not required to attain anything, I say. Nothing. This is not a test. When that is seen, one can relax.
Robert Saltzman
There are no experts in the art of living, which is an art of improvisation without certainty. We are all in this together. If there is to be a goal at all, let it not be “enlightenment”—that will o' the wisp—but ordinary sanity.
Robert Saltzman
There are no experts in the art of living, which is an art of improvisation without certainty. We are all in this together. If there is to be a goal at all, let it not be “enlightenment”—that will o' the wisp—but ordinary sanity.
Robert Saltzman
There is more to be revealed and recognised in the actual nature of one’s own mind than in any number of spiritual texts.
Zen doesn’t enable you to be zen-like. It allows you to be completely you minus any trace of Zen.