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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.
Cars rush past
like waves on the beach
Thoughts roll in and break apart
Looking and not finding
Seeing what was never lost
Cars rush past
like waves on the beach
Thoughts roll in and break apart
Looking and not finding
Seeing what was never lost
Just a sparrow
“The infant sees a sparrow dancing on his window ledge and he’s all full of wonder and awe. The infant is brimming with excitement and he rushes to …
Just a sparrow
Just a sparrow
“The infant sees a sparrow dancing on his window ledge and he’s all full of wonder and awe. The infant is brimming with excitement and he rushes to …
Just a sparrow
Realising there is nothing specific that we actually need except the simple acceptance of everything that arises.
Realising there is nothing specific that we actually need except the simple acceptance of everything that arises.
When the thinking mind tries to figure things out, confusion appears. But right here, right now is not confusing at all.
Joan Tollifson
When the thinking mind tries to figure things out, confusion appears. But right here, right now is not confusing at all.
Joan Tollifson
When the illusion of self is clearly seen through we miraculously disappear in each other’s favour.
When the illusion of self is clearly seen through we miraculously disappear in each other’s favour.
In the absolute there are no happy endings as there are no endings.
In the absolute there are no happy endings as there are no endings.
True understanding is a kind of instinctive unknowing, a deep sense of fundamental emptiness expressed as everything.
True understanding is a kind of instinctive unknowing, a deep sense of fundamental emptiness expressed as everything.
Noise is just as intrinsic to the absolute as silence. As motion is to stillness. They enable each other. In the infinite all opposites allow each other. Everything is in a process of enabling everything else. Form and formlessness.
Noise is just as intrinsic to the absolute as silence. As motion is to stillness. They enable each other. In the infinite all opposites allow each other. Everything is in a process of enabling everything else. Form and formlessness.
One fascinating, paradoxical and wonderful, yet utterly ordinary aspect of awakening is the freedom it affords one to go past, through and leave behind many of the forms of practice that enabled one to recognise that freedom in the first place.
One fascinating, paradoxical and wonderful, yet utterly ordinary aspect of awakening is the freedom it affords one to go past, through and leave behind many of the forms of practice that enabled one to recognise that freedom in the first place.
Wide awake in the midst of life.