Meditation techniques are easy to practise because they have a form. Awareness is harder because it has no form.
Anon
Knowledge and ignorance are both untrue, nothing but dream and illusion — the nonduality of true and untrue.
Longchenpa
The truth of the moment is beyond all thoughts, all feelings, all ideas, all concepts, all systems, all traditions and is only ever right here, right now. All else is imagination.
Once you realise you’re distracted, that you’ve been thinking without knowing you’ve been thinking, everything can begin to change.
If I am anything, I am the totality of everything and nothing that is and isn’t happening in this moment.
I feel this is the heart of meditation: Simply being interested in what is here – being more interested in what is… than in what was, what will be, or what should be.
Toni Packer
The dog, snoring at my feet. Loud chatter coming through the wall from next door. The smell of coffee and of smoke from the unlit fire. A new, different kind of silence in the absence of clanging tinnitus.
Even the same things are new in each moment.