Everything as it is
There is no way we can judge ourselves because we cannot step outside of ourselves into objectivity. This is so because there is no separation between subject and object in the actualization of reality …
Shohaku Okumura
The five mile (8k) run went really well. A few more of those and then a 10k I think.
Spiritual traditions can be rich seams of wisdom, insight and practice. And yet are really just the initial clues and pointers for the far more important process of our own personal life experience, practice, insight and wisdom.
In the beginning we consult the great traditions to see if we have got it right. At a certain point we consult the great traditions to see if they have got it right!
Douglas Harding
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Switching from running 5k to 5 miles.
Wish me luck…
A full life is what results when we are thoroughly emptied out. When we become the space for life to manifest unopposed.
Shiv Sengupta
There are people, I know, who like to sweeten everything – otherwise, they can't swallow it. That's what hope of improvement is, a kind of sweetener, imaginary of course, for those who find life too bitter to swallow straight up. Whether you call the sweetener Heaven with Jesus, nonduality, salvation, or enlightenment, it's all the same poison.
Robert Saltzman
As always a tiring but rewarding day at work. Never a dull moment.
Is there really any depth?
I keep finding myself returning to the insight that ‘depth’ is just another idea/ concept and not something phenomenological that is experienced directly.
In my experience everything that is directly felt happens only on this plane of appearances in awareness.
I can find no evidence of anything else happening anywhere else other than right here, right now.
After the snow
The sky clears
The day awakens
My twelve hour shift begins
This is not work, this is being
Joy
Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy.
Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens.
It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.
Joy
Everything is an aspect of everything else.
Everything is an aspect of everything else.
Everything is an aspect of everything else.