Belief is the problem not what is believed.
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2024
“Not knowing, intimacy, mystery—all are words that convey a simple, yet profound, openness to the moment without any attempt to master, control, or understand it....
There is no stillness or silence, there is always movement and sound. There is nowhere to go. We take ourselves everywhere and find ourselves everywhere.
“There is no one to whom we are not related. Yes, the idea of me and mine is a cultural cornerstone, but like all ideas,...
“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness....
“This is what Zen means by being detached – not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or...
“What is the ‘silence' that you are after? Do you hear those trucks passing by on the road and the flushing of the toilet? Do...
We truly become ourselves when we forget ourselves.
“I stroll along the stream up to where it ends. I sit down watching the clouds as they begin to rise. Wang Wei”
“The inflation of the ego is brought about by its identification with the collective values. — Carl Jung”
On this, World Meditation Day, a few random thoughts on practice: • You can’t do meditation wrong. There’s no success or failure. • In practicing...
Apparently it’s World Meditation Day today. Who knew? Not me for one! If I had any advice for anyone embarking on any meditative/ contemplative self...
If there’s no problem, there’s no problem.
“Yes, the shit can be a burden. But an even bigger burden is the feeling that one has to be responsible for perpetually managing that...
