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What is here when we stop trying to arrive there? What is here, so close that we do not notice? Words will never answer. What knows cannot be known except to Itself. It is what we are. It is a Mystery prior to any conception of “God,” or “Buddha,” or “I Am,” prior to being or non-being. . .
It is undivided Silence, empty of nothing, continually moving, continually still. It is what we are. Only This! It is where the mind cannot go, where mind must remain in Unknowing.
Dorothy Hunt
What is here when we stop trying to arrive there? What is here, so close that we do not notice? Words will never answer. What knows cannot be known except to Itself. It is what we are. It is a Mystery prior to any conception of “God,” or “Buddha,” or “I Am,” prior to being or non-being. . .
It is undivided Silence, empty of nothing, continually moving, continually still. It is what we are. Only This! It is where the mind cannot go, where mind must remain in Unknowing.
Dorothy Hunt
If we liken experience to a radio, our usual mode is to just keep turning the dial until we find a station that we like. However, what I'm inviting you to do is to get interested in the fact that the radio of experiencing is even on and playing in the first place.
John Astin
If we liken experience to a radio, our usual mode is to just keep turning the dial until we find a station that we like. However, what I'm inviting you to do is to get interested in the fact that the radio of experiencing is even on and playing in the first place.
John Astin
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I am.
This is.
I am this.
I am.
This is.
I am this.
No escape
When one is not looking for any escape at all, but finds oneself participating in whatever thoughts, feelings, perceptions, etc. make up the constituents of THIS very moment, without any hope that things will get ‘better,’ including that one will ‘eventually’ be ‘enlightened,’ then one is IN the moment, and it is only IN the moment that anything true, anything real, anything that is not escapism and fantasy, will be found.
Robert Saltzman
So whereas most teachings point elsewhere, point to an improved condition that you will attain by following the teaching, I point only to what you are right now in this moment. The one who is reading these words is IT, and there is no other.
No escape
When one is not looking for any escape at all, but finds oneself participating in whatever thoughts, feelings, perceptions, etc. make up the constituents of THIS very moment, without any hope that things will get ‘better,’ including that one will ‘eventually’ be ‘enlightened,’ then one is IN the moment, and it is only IN the moment that anything true, anything real, anything that is not escapism and fantasy, will be found.
Robert Saltzman
So whereas most teachings point elsewhere, point to an improved condition that you will attain by following the teaching, I point only to what you are right now in this moment. The one who is reading these words is IT, and there is no other.
We imagine spiritual enlightenment as a state of unbroken happiness and doubtless certainty. But as Chogyam Trungpa famously said, "Enlightenment is the ultimate and final disappointment," because it turns out to be the recognition that everything is included in this wholeness, even unhappiness and uncertainty—and furthermore, that there is no such thing as an enlightened person.
Abiding Nowhere
We imagine spiritual enlightenment as a state of unbroken happiness and doubtless certainty. But as Chogyam Trungpa famously said, "Enlightenment is the ultimate and final disappointment," because it turns out to be the recognition that everything is included in this wholeness, even unhappiness and uncertainty—and furthermore, that there is no such thing as an enlightened person.
Abiding Nowhere
There is nothing wrong with not knowing what to think about anything.
There is nothing wrong with not knowing what to think about anything.
Our personal truth is the unedited, uncurated totality of our being.