There is no mistaking the raw actuality of this moment, right here, right now. Everything else is fantasy.

If we attend closely and carefully enough we can observe how we take refuge and hide and imprison ourselves in emotion, however painful or unpleasant they may be.

All forms reveal emptiness and emptiness reveals all forms. Not two, not oneness, just difference unseparated.

As ever, beginning again.

Attend to the present moment carefully and closely enough and find everything that happens appears in awareness out of nowhere and then either changes into something else or disappears into nowhere again.

The present moment will never let you down. Everything else will.

The fear of death is the same as any other story we believe to be true. Just a story we have made up to escape the raw actuality of the unknown, that which we cannot control, that which simply is and will be in spite of our desire for it to be otherwise.

This, this that is undeniable, self evident and simply here is ungraspable and without form or boundary.

All art is the attempt to express the inexpressible.

All memories pale in comparison to the vibrant, visceral actuality of this moment of vivid aliveness.

Thinking - the original virtual reality.

We attribute fixed meanings to the ever changing phenomenal world. No wonder all meanings fail in the end and leave us bereft. Wisdom reveals that meaning is not a requirement but a choice and one we are perfectly capable of living without.

Pleasure or pain. Relaxation or anxiety. There is nothing confusing about the present moment until we start thinking about it.

Awareness is not beyond doubt or question because it is already present before either arise.

“Feel your feet on the ground – listen and look.”

John Butler

Awareness includes everything and clings to nothing. We might call that unconditional love.

Joan Tollifson