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.
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 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.
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 includes everything and clings to nothing. We might call that unconditional love.
Joan Tollifson
In the the condition of empty awareness, when the illusion of ego self is clearly seen through, what needs to be done next becomes miraculously clear and free from hesitation.