Thisness…

People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks that life sets them.

When they resolve to spare themselves the pain and suffering they owe to their nature.

In so doing, they refuse to pay life’s dues and for this very reason, life then often leads them astray.

If we don’t accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis.

If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. A neurosis is a much greater curse!

Carl Jung

People do not realize just how much they are putting at risk when they don’t accept what life presents them with, the questions and tasks that life sets them.

When they resolve to spare themselves the pain and suffering they owe to their nature.

In so doing, they refuse to pay life’s dues and for this very reason, life then often leads them astray.

If we don’t accept our own destiny, a different kind of suffering takes its place: a neurosis develops, and I believe that that life which we have to live is not as bad as a neurosis.

If I have to suffer, then let it be from my reality. A neurosis is a much greater curse!

Carl Jung

Try and stop a river and it inevitably spreads everywhere uncontrollably. Let it flow and it just moves on past without a trace.

Waking up is a relaxation into not knowing, into simply being this whole happening, just as it is.

Joan Tollifson

Waking up is a relaxation into not knowing, into simply being this whole happening, just as it is.

Joan Tollifson

Forget dual and non-dual. They are just words that don’t change or make any difference to the actuality of your present experience of aliveness.

Taking responsibility for whatever comes before you…

Identification is the root of all bondage.

Identifying with silence, peace and stillness is misguided. We are the flow of all phenomena.

There is nothing mysterious about what is happening but there is only mystery about how and why.

There is nothing mysterious about what is happening but there is only mystery about how and why.

There is nothing mysterious about what is happening but there is only mystery about how and why.

There is only what is apparent here, now. Everything else is imagination.

Depth is a seductive illusion. Silence too. There is always some sound, sensation or whisp of thought happening. Mind is never totally absent. This felt presence always consists of something however fleeting, to be replaced with some other passing phenomenal wave.

No matter what is going on in our mind; confusion, peace, anxiety, clarity, contraction, spaciousness, pain, wholeness etc. none of it is special, unique or of a higher or lesser order than any other – it’s all just aspects of our aliveness happening as it will – and all we have to do is recognise and accept it all with gratitude.

We don’t have a relationship with thought or the world. We are thought, we are the phenomenal world. There’s no here and there, no split, no duality.

Individuality or personality traits are not about being unique or differentiated from other individuals but more about the myriad variations and flavours of the whole – the totality of everything – not separate isolated parts.

We’re not meant to be happy any more than we’re meant to be in pain. We’re not meant to be anything in particular. We just happen to be whatever occurs.