Thisness…

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.

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.

Philosophy is its own problem. Reality is absolutely fine without it.

The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.

The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.

The best meditation I know of is to completely surrender to whatever is happening, however it’s happening, whenever it’s happening.

We are not required to attain anything, I say. Nothing. This is not a test. When that is seen, one can relax.

Robert Saltzman

We are not required to attain anything, I say. Nothing. This is not a test. When that is seen, one can relax.

Robert Saltzman

There are no experts in the art of living, which is an art of improvisation without certainty. We are all in this together. If there is to be a goal at all, let it not be “enlightenment”—that will o' the wisp—but ordinary sanity.

Robert Saltzman

There are no experts in the art of living, which is an art of improvisation without certainty. We are all in this together. If there is to be a goal at all, let it not be “enlightenment”—that will o' the wisp—but ordinary sanity.

Robert Saltzman

There is more to be revealed and recognised in the actual nature of one’s own mind than in any number of spiritual texts.

Zen doesn’t enable you to be zen-like. It allows you to be completely you minus any trace of Zen.

There’s no secret to life. It is completely revealed and utterly evident in every moment. What’s not to get?

There’s no secret to life. It is completely revealed and utterly evident in every moment. What’s not to get?

There’s no depth to experience. You’re either experiencing something or you’re not, and when you are it’s all happening right here on the dimensionless surface of awareness.

There’s no secret to life. It is completely revealed and utterly evident in every moment. What’s not to get?

One lives as one can.

There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.

If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.

Moreover this way fits in with the average way of mankind in general.

But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other.

If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.

Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.

And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.

So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation.

But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.

One lives as one can.

There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.

If that’s what you want you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.

Moreover this way fits in with the average way of mankind in general.

But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put one foot in front of the other.

If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.

Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.

And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.

So long as you think you don’t yet know what this is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation.

But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.

What you want and what you don’t want are irrelevant. All that matters is what happens.

What you want and what you don’t want are irrelevant. All that matters is what happens.