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Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person’s imaginary friends.
Sam Harris
Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person’s imaginary friends.
Sam Harris
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate…A condition of complete simplicity
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate…A condition of complete simplicity
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
In our original non-dual nature of mind no thing can get in the way of any other thing. There is no space, no separation between anything. A sound is the hearing of it. A sensation is the feeling. Open, empty, spacious awareness unifies everything. It’s only the thinking, delusional mind that separates and breaks everything apart into me/ you, mine/ yours, us/ them, this/ that — a fantasy world of subjects and objects.
In our original non-dual nature of mind no thing can get in the way of any other thing. There is no space, no separation between anything. A sound is the hearing of it. A sensation is the feeling. Open, empty, spacious awareness unifies everything. It’s only the thinking, delusional mind that separates and breaks everything apart into me/ you, mine/ yours, us/ them, this/ that — a fantasy world of subjects and objects.
We are not meant to be anything in particular other than simply alive as we are and only until it is time not to be. That is all.
We are not meant to be anything in particular other than simply alive as we are and only until it is time not to be. That is all.
There is nothing confusing about pain. It is clear, pure and free and definitely not about us. It simply is.
Why pile suffering on top by claiming it with pointless thoughts and stories about it?
Pain is inevitable, suffering optional.
There is nothing confusing about pain. It is clear, pure and free and definitely not about us. It simply is.
Why pile suffering on top by claiming it with pointless thoughts and stories about it?
Pain is inevitable, suffering optional.
Dawn
Freezing air
Harsh and raw
Ungraspable pain
The great teacher
Dawn
Freezing air
Harsh and raw
Ungraspable pain
The great teacher
Can we attend to the raw actuality of experience without the accompanying psycho-dramatic narrative?
Can we attend to the raw actuality of experience without the accompanying psycho-dramatic narrative?
What do we mean when we say we ‘deserve’ something?
What do we mean when we say we ‘deserve’ something?
The realm of thought, concepts and stories is complex and confusing. Open, unimpeded awareness is clear, simple and free from interpretation. Inquiry without analysis.
Freedom from the tyranny of ego.
The realm of thought, concepts and stories is complex and confusing. Open, unimpeded awareness is clear, simple and free from interpretation. Inquiry without analysis.
Freedom from the tyranny of ego.
For the awakened mind nothing changes, everything stays the same but for our point of view. Instead of seeing ourselves and the world from some independent separate vantage point we recognise we are the world and and world is us. There is still pain but it is not ours to claim and own. There is joy but it is the joy of everything. Everything is included and nothing left out. We are not things but open space for everything to arise and pass away without hinderance.