““When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”” — John Muir
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““Different strokes for different folks or for different moments. One moment you need Zen. The next moment you need Advaita. Then maybe you suddenly find...
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Things go away. Everything is always here.
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Ever tried looking for yourself and not come up with either thoughts, ideas, stories, memories or fantasies? 🤔 😳
Nothing has to happen yet everything does.
Recognising the eternal now is exquisitely palpable yet utterly ungraspable. Reality is fully complete in each moment and yet endlessly generative…
““Notice — what happens when the wordless meets the listening. This listening is without a listener. I have no words — listen.”” — Andō
Even in contemplative/ meditative spheres there is a tendency to fetishise certain conditions, like silence and stillness, over others. The raw actuality of unconditional being/...
Whatever progress may or may not be, it is only made when one drops the idea of making any.
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““The mark of the moderate man, according to the Tao, is that he has no ideas about himself. None. Nada. In him is the recognition...
You can’t do what is already being done. You can’t become what you already are. You can’t allow what is already present.
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Your experience, however it is manifesting, is always the complete, whole aliveness of being you imagine you are seeking. If you find yourself looking or...
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Spiritual/ meditative/ contemplative insights are not reserved for sacred texts, ancient traditions, gurus or teachers. They need not come from anywhere or anyone in particular.
The presence or not of suffering is beside the larger point that there is anything to experience at all.