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    If we don’t think about ourselves where is the need for self esteem?

    Toni Packer

    If we don’t think about ourselves where is the need for self esteem?

    Toni Packer

    Every day, every minute, every moment we begin again. We drop all the definitions we are holding, all the conclusions, all the answers, all the stories and return to simple, open, innocent not knowing. When we drop everything we are holding onto, we discover we are capacity for everything without fear or doubt.

    Every day, every minute, every moment we begin again. We drop all the definitions we are holding, all the conclusions, all the answers, all the stories and return to simple, open, innocent not knowing. When we drop everything we are holding onto, we discover we are capacity for everything without fear or doubt.

    It is merely as an expedient that the Essence of Mind is so called; it cannot really be named by any name.

    Hui Neng

    It is merely as an expedient that the Essence of Mind is so called; it cannot really be named by any name.

    Hui Neng

    True wisdom automatically arises the more we unlearn, undo and let go of the apparent compulsion to know and control everything.

    True wisdom automatically arises the more we unlearn, undo and let go of the apparent compulsion to know and control everything.

    Paradoxically it is both a great relief and also a source of boundless capacity, to look for oneself and find no one at the wheel.

    Paradoxically it is both a great relief and also a source of boundless capacity, to look for oneself and find no one at the wheel.

    In the silence prior to thoughts, there is nothing to be said…

    Thinking about thoughts

    In the silence prior to thoughts, there is nothing to be said…

    Thinking about thoughts

    None of us know in advance what we will find in contemplative work but invariably we find everything we need if we let go of wanting to find anything in particular.

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