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“To become one with just what is, one is at one with both presence and loss, with being and not being. It doesn’t feel like...

“The peace you’re looking for isn’t something to acquire. It’s what’s revealed when you stop searching. — That missing piece (peace)”

I appreciate the way Zen embodies, with humour and mischief, the futility of describing and/ or expressing the qualia of our aliveness.

First snow. Just a soggy dusting quickly turning to slush. More to come this week though.

Coffee and cake (that was) before my late shift today. Heavy rainfall due later so I’m slightly mindful of potential flooding…

As always, the present moment exactly as it presents itself, is the greatest teacher of all… but only if we allow it to be.

“Rather than succumbing to the illusion of certainty through prediction, we should embrace the future as a space of possibility and creativity.  Attempts to foretell...

“When we resist what is, we get stuck to the very thing we want to move away from. — Understanding and acceptance in order to...

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. — Mark Twain”

“Perhaps you have noticed that the mind misinterprets everything. — Lost in a dream”

Some random notes on media: True independence of mind surely precludes subscribing to or following any publication or service that claims to be independent. Read,...

Reading in front of this is the only place to be this afternoon.

If this moment in time should teach those of us with a spiritual bent anything, it’s the lesson of impermanence.

Counter to the prevailing trope of spiritual orthodoxy I don’t accept that our so-called true nature is loving and caring any more than it is...

“Nothing is everything. Or, in the mirror, everything is nothing. What I’ve learned”

One day I looked for my self and found nothing. Turning attention back on itself there was only wide open space – not a thing,...

“Life is not something to understand or figure out. It’s not an equation to solve, nor a puzzle to complete. Life is simply here, as it...

Words can never capture what we are – language always fails beautifully in this regard – but this chap has a lovely turn of phrase...

“In this world you can search for everything, except love and death. They find you when the time comes. — Sergei Yesenin”