“Suffering is feedback, showing us that we’re attached to ideas and thoughts that appear true, but aren’t… Attachment to Ideas is Supposed to Hurt”
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2022
If we persist in looking to get or obtain something, anything from ourselves, others and the world then we miss that everything that happens is...
What stories are we going to believe and invest in about ourselves and the world today? What forms and patterns will we think are real...
Thoughts, ideas, theories, concepts, and stories are all for nought without the rigorous practice of bare attention to this moment.
What is fear of death but a complicated tangle of images and stories about everything except the present moment of actual aliveness.
Dissolving or seeing through the fabricated ego self automatically frees us from craving and addiction as there is no one to do any wanting. The...
Allow everything without holding onto anything.
Egos meet and remain separate but open, aware minds share presence.
As Beckett was exquisitely aware, all language fails attempting to capture the formless absolute.
Enlightenment, awakening, recognition, realisation, whatever, is not an answer, has no answers because it precedes all questions making the very notion of question/ answer redundant.
Deconstructing the self automatically opens us to boundless possibilities.
Myriad holograms of meaning come and go, arise and fade away over and over and over and yet the ungraspable openness in which this occurs...
No arrival, no conclusion, no ending, just perpetual freshness and unknowing.
This includes us but is not about us.
The illusion of a spiritual journey is just more hinderance, more occlusion of the infinite ground which is always right here, right now.
“‘Symbols and conventions can be used for awareness rather than for developing worldly attitudes to becoming some kind of Buddhist.’ Ajahn Sumedho Morning meditation —...
With complete recognition of open awareness the need for the crutches of meaning, purpose and identification evaporate.
Data, information, knowledge - none have anything to do with wisdom.
