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““You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Who am I? What am I? In all honesty, only everything that is happening.
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““The cure for the pain is in the pain.”” — Rūmī
We will remain forever blind to the unintended consequences of our actions be they good or ill.
“Why do you meditate?” “To see what happens.”
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There is no elephant in the room. The elephant is the room.
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Thursday night is darts 🎯 night.
Recognising the difference between thinking you are a thing to which other things happen and being the space where everything happens is profoundly life changing.
At the close of meditation this evening this thought, somewhat paradoxically popped up, ‘...the veracity of the unspoken, the wordless...’
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““Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”” — George Orwell
It is said that AI doesn’t know what it’s doing or how it’s doing it. I would suggest that neither do we.
Bring the noise
Sitting in silence and stillness is all very nice but there is nothing intrinsic to these conditions that gets you any closer to recognising the...
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Adam Curtis’ new series ‘Shifty’ looks, as always, fun.[YouTube Video]
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““Just as the dream is not apart from the dreamer, so is knowing not apart from being. The dream is the dreamer, the knowledge is...
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“"The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."” — George Bernard Shaw
““If we trust life, we know this for a fact: Everything that happens, happens for the best.”” — Trust
““Don’t miss what is here now, in wishing it was otherwise.”” — Andō
You can’t be what you are if you think of yourself as anything in particular.
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““As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just as...
The sound of welcome rain The welcome sound of rain
““It is all one. You imagine separations and trouble yourself with questions. Don’t concern yourself overmuch with formulations. Pure being cannot be described.”” — Nisargadatta
““I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”” — Virginia Woolf
Sitting quietly
Sitting quietly in my car Drinking coffee Cars hiss in the distance Nothing to be done
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The sad thing about getting promoted to the Premier League is the inevitable dissolution of the current squad that secured promotion to make way for...
““Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”” — Carl Jung
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Playwright Dennis Potter’s last interview given before his death is a remarkable thing to behold. An extraordinary celebration of the raw aliveness of living through...
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““This moment doesn’t signal a collapse of alignment. It signals the peril of constructing systems that can simulate intent without possessing it. When coherence becomes...
While the potatoes boil...
““It's over, the ‘buddhas and patriarchs’ disease, That once gripped my chest, Now I'm just an ordinary man, With a clean slate.”” — Bankei
My practice is not...
I find it difficult to express what my meditative/ contemplative practice is so it’s easier to say what it is not. • Remedial • To...
Making the most of the last of the glorious weather today before the traditional bank holiday inclemency hits.A nice run across the fields and now...
A day of chores, chopping wood and carrying water. Not really, more like laundry, shopping and mowing the lawn but it’s all the same.
““I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”” — Mary Oliver
““Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”” — Philip K. Dick
Love and light are the least of it.
