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We pour all our cognitive resources into and invest heavily in our separate egos. What a waste. Let us recognise what happens when we invest in the simplicity of open, centreless awareness.
All separation disappears and we clearly recognise the paradox that we are all essentially the same yet expressed through difference.
We pour all our cognitive resources into and invest heavily in our separate egos. What a waste. Let us recognise what happens when we invest in the simplicity of open, centreless awareness.
All separation disappears and we clearly recognise the paradox that we are all essentially the same yet expressed through difference.
Can we attend closely and carefully to the difference between memories and what is actually present here, now?
Can we attend closely and carefully to the difference between memories and what is actually present here, now?
If we are anything we are a spontaneous arising of ever changing aliveness.
If we are anything we are a spontaneous arising of ever changing aliveness.
The universe remains indifferent to our separate identities and desires.
The universe remains indifferent to our separate identities and desires.
Identifying as this or that is not liberation. Self identification binds us instead of freeing us. To let go of identification with anything opens us up to everything unconditionally.
Identifying as this or that is not liberation. Self identification binds us instead of freeing us. To let go of identification with anything opens us up to everything unconditionally.
When attachment and investment are seen completely—root cause as well as the consequences that arise—then the seeing is the letting go.
Toni Packer
When attachment and investment are seen completely—root cause as well as the consequences that arise—then the seeing is the letting go.
Toni Packer
The moment we notice ourselves behaving as ‘someone’ in relation to someone else or ‘others’ it is an opportunity to recognise this identification as a fabrication, a fantasy to solidify the ego.
The moment we notice ourselves behaving as ‘someone’ in relation to someone else or ‘others’ it is an opportunity to recognise this identification as a fabrication, a fantasy to solidify the ego.
There seems to me to be little point in insightful realisations if they remain within the domain of ‘formal’ mediation practice sessions. Awakening reveals our essential aliveness that is present all the time, everywhere before and underneath every moment of our experience. Can we not practice persistent recognition in the midst of life?
There seems to me to be little point in insightful realisations if they remain within the domain of ‘formal’ mediation practice sessions. Awakening reveals our essential aliveness that is present all the time, everywhere before and underneath every moment of our experience. Can we not practice persistent recognition in the midst of life?
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
Anthony de Mello
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
Anthony de Mello
When ego’s meet there is, eventually, always conflict. When open awareness meets open awareness there is simply the allowing of spacious unity.
When ego’s meet there is, eventually, always conflict. When open awareness meets open awareness there is simply the allowing of spacious unity.