Take no one else’s word for anything.
Find out for yourself.
Accept no authority but your own.
If we attend closely and carefully to what is undeniable, paradoxically it reveals all that is unknowable.
If we attend closely and carefully to what is undeniable, paradoxically it reveals all that is unknowable.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan Watts
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
Alan Watts
Despite our best efforts to resist and deny certain aspects of our lives, ultimately we simply cannot resist anything. We may delude ourselves by hiding from, denying or attempting to ignore reality but reality remains, always, irresistible.
Despite our best efforts to resist and deny certain aspects of our lives, ultimately we simply cannot resist anything. We may delude ourselves by hiding from, denying or attempting to ignore reality but reality remains, always, irresistible.
The weeds of our mind have just as much to teach us as the flowers.
The weeds of our mind have just as much to teach us as the flowers.
This body moving
like the waves are breaking
Wind blows through
this empty space of mind
Thoughts float in and out
All of it
indivisible
Nothing excluded
Impossible to pull apart
Limitless unfolding
Eternally now
This body moving
like the waves are breaking
Wind blows through
this empty space of mind
Thoughts float in and out
All of it
indivisible
Nothing excluded
Impossible to pull apart
Limitless unfolding
Eternally now
If we are able view everything without our usual conceptual frames of reference then we can recognise our intrinsic infinite nature.
If we are able view everything without our usual conceptual frames of reference then we can recognise our intrinsic infinite nature.
Nothing happens next. This is always it.
Nothing happens next. This is always it.
Pretty much everything we think and do prevents us from recognising the true nature of our mind and the world as it is.
Pretty much everything we think and do prevents us from recognising the true nature of our mind and the world as it is.
When we recognise we are simply open space for ourselves we also see how we are open space for everyone and everything else. Miraculously we realise we have infinite capacity.
When we recognise we are simply open space for ourselves we also see how we are open space for everyone and everything else. Miraculously we realise we have infinite capacity.
We are both the infinite source and the expression of it.