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Leave yourself alone. Stop meddling. There really is no need to interfere with what is already perfect exactly as it is. Nothing need be added nor subtracted to be completely whole.
Leave yourself alone. Stop meddling. There really is no need to interfere with what is already perfect exactly as it is. Nothing need be added nor subtracted to be completely whole.
Trying to be something or someone obscures the simple truth of what you really are without contrivance or effort.
Trying to be something or someone obscures the simple truth of what you really are without contrivance or effort.
Awakening is like finally recognising that the car we are driving is actually fully autonomous requiring no driver. We thought we were at the wheel but the reason the car drove so badly was us fighting it at every turn. We belatedly see that the car functions perfectly without us and we are free to sit back and enjoy the ride.
Awakening is like finally recognising that the car we are driving is actually fully autonomous requiring no driver. We thought we were at the wheel but the reason the car drove so badly was us fighting it at every turn. We belatedly see that the car functions perfectly without us and we are free to sit back and enjoy the ride.
Continual identification with every thought that enters our awareness condemns us to a prison of our own making. Freedom comes when we recognise we are literally not who we think we are. We are whatever is present before thoughts, concepts, ideas and stories arise to occlude the truth of reality.
Continual identification with every thought that enters our awareness condemns us to a prison of our own making. Freedom comes when we recognise we are literally not who we think we are. We are whatever is present before thoughts, concepts, ideas and stories arise to occlude the truth of reality.
All of which serve to distract and conceal the vivid, raw, alive truth of simply being here, now intrinsically woven into the world without boundaries or limits.
All of which serve to distract and conceal the vivid, raw, alive truth of simply being here, now intrinsically woven into the world without boundaries or limits.
Can we also notice the continuous directors cut narration that plays over the present moment?
Can we also notice the continuous directors cut narration that plays over the present moment?
Can we recognise our memories of the past and thoughts about the future as fundamentally all the same imaginary fantasy?
Can we recognise our memories of the past and thoughts about the future as fundamentally all the same imaginary fantasy?
The trouble with the mind is its supposed abstraction from the
Douglas Harding
world…
The trouble with the mind is its supposed abstraction from the
Douglas Harding
world…
The real problems of life are literally not what we think they are. The problems lie with identification with every thought that occurs to us. We don’t have thoughts, thoughts have us. They capture and tyrannise us.
The real problems of life are literally not what we think they are. The problems lie with identification with every thought that occurs to us. We don’t have thoughts, thoughts have us. They capture and tyrannise us.
Only confusion lies at the end of trains of thought.
Only confusion lies at the end of trains of thought.