It’s not that we don’t know how to live, it’s that society demands we live like or as other people.
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2025
Animals that lose a limb just get on with it.
““Nature's out of line. Just right. You too.”” — Randomly right, Jason Fried
I’ve never liked the word ‘retreat’ as it is used in the meditative, contemplative and so-called spiritual circles. I always think: ‘where are you retreating...
Our immediate lived experience flows and changes so comprehensively that all (these) words are just echos pointing at ghosts.
Watching my mind tenaciously hang on to two thoughts and effortlessly turn them into problems. But are they problems right now? No. Potentially at some...
It would seem foolish to ask ‘where are we now?’ in the midst of ever shifting sands.
Feelings are to be felt fully and unconditionally and most importantly allowed to exhaust themselves. Feelings are not to be held onto, hidden behind, identified...
We all think we understand why things do or don’t happen, but do we? How could our tiny little slits of limited perception possibly get...
The profound relief when you realise, not only that there’s nothing to do, but that there’s nothing you can do even if you wanted to....
Nothing is ever really explained nor will anything ever be.
Let no idea take you hostage lest you develop Stockholm syndrome to an ideology.
Meditation reveals nothing about your mind that life doesn't.
It is both a great relief and also a source of boundless capacity, to look for oneself and find no one at the wheel. The...
Invariably we find everything we need if we let go of wanting to find anything in particular.
Failure? How can we possibly fail at living, of simply being this aliveness that we are. It just happens automatically with no assistance or any...
The doorway is through the everyday crap of life. Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re thinking and feeling, start there and nowhere else.
We don’t need anymore than a life.
There is nothing to be done yet everything will happen.
“"Don't expect too much from therapy."” — James Low Since all one is doing is swapping one set of stories for another.
What can we say about anything with any certainty? Very little. So much of what we claim to know is hearsay. What can you say...
Consciousness has no clue what is needed, what is required.
““In a natural state, truth isn't a theory or idea but simply life itself, regardless of belief. The natural mind acknowledges that any perspective could...
““Not the animal world, not the plant world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery.”” — Joseph Campbell,...
We don’t have to know anything or attain any new information to fully recognise the nature of our mind.
Whether still or moving, silent or noisy, there is only ever everything.
Simply be. Flow with what is, without clinging to words, ideas, language, concepts... anything.
The problems created by thought are not solved by more thinking.
““…what's actually going on — let that be what does the meditation.” — Bodhidave
Life is not personal.
The infinite, the eternal can be found within the pauses and beats between words, notes, images and events.
The real shit lies beyond optimism and pessimism.
““I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.”” — Marion Milner
One way. And then the other.
Flow.
I've reached the point where I'm done with the lexicon of co-called spirituality and contemplation/ meditation. If I ever refer to non-duality, duality, delusion, enlightenment,...
Whatever path I am on leads directly here from here.
““Significance is what we attribute to events. They are not inherent to events.”” — Just so, Shiv Sengupta
““…people die in the manner of their living, which mostly means they die, not dying.”” — We’re all going to die, Julian Summerhayes
Doing a lot of deleting today. Got rid of a huge archive of notes and articles I’m never going to read. Slashed the number of...
Life as it is, the only teacher…
““The meaning of being alive is just being alive.”” — Alan Watts
Freezing out. Hot in here.
If you’re looking for answers Zen doesn’t have any.
Toast has swapped her ‘official’ bed for her beloved sheepskin.
