What stories are we going to believe and invest in about ourselves and the world today? What forms and patterns will we think are real and permanent?
What ephemera will we mistake for essential? What will we hang onto for dear life without recognising there’s nothing there?
Thoughts, ideas, theories, concepts, and stories are all for nought without the rigorous practice of bare attention to this moment.
What is fear of death but a complicated tangle of images and stories about everything except the present moment of actual aliveness.
Dissolving or seeing through the fabricated ego self automatically frees us from craving and addiction as there is no one to do any wanting. The conditioned question ‘what do I want?’ evaporates leaving only the inquiry ‘what is here now?’
Enlightenment, awakening, recognition, realisation, whatever, is not an answer, has no answers because it precedes all questions making the very notion of question/ answer redundant.
Myriad holograms of meaning come and go, arise and fade away over and over and over and yet the ungraspable openness in which this occurs is always present.
The illusion of a spiritual journey is just more hinderance, more occlusion of the infinite ground which is always right here, right now.
‘Symbols and conventions can be used for awareness rather than for developing worldly attitudes to becoming some kind of Buddhist.’ Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Symbols and Conventions can be.
With complete recognition of open awareness the need for the crutches of meaning, purpose and identification evaporate.
In spite of the famous phrase: ‘There must be more to life than this’, there is actually no more to life than this. There is no more aliveness to be had anywhere but right here, right now.