The I that says and thinks "I create my own reality" cannot
The I that wants and thinks to get rid of ego cannot
No identity bathes in the waters of non-duality
You must shed all before entering
Go deep and regain no-self
The I that ignores the involuntary has no real volition
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Clarity
Lightning strikes the very core, nothing happens.
The babbling mind and babbling brook are flowing backward to the sea from which they came.
Listen to the smallest ripple of silence.
There is no clarity without clarity.
There is no mind without no-mind
If you meet your Self on the road, bow as if you were bowing to the whole cosmos.
The babbling mind and babbling brook are flowing backward to the sea from which they came.
Listen to the smallest ripple of silence.
There is no clarity without clarity.
There is no mind without no-mind
If you meet your Self on the road, bow as if you were bowing to the whole cosmos.
Not Knowing
"I could be wrong", the thought-perception that teaches us humility and allows us to marvel at our not knowing
If I truly know nothing then I am truly liberated from right and wrong
What good teachers we are when we teach ourselves nothing
If I truly know nothing then I am truly liberated from right and wrong
What good teachers we are when we teach ourselves nothing
Head in the heavens
Head in the heavens
feet in the molton core of the earth.
middle at every level
basking in the suchness of it all
feet in the molton core of the earth.
middle at every level
basking in the suchness of it all
Thursday, May 8, 2008
The Lens / Mirror of Consciousness
In consciousness, the lens is is not separate from what is perceived.
A dirty lens creates noise and distortion which in turn can be perceived with distortion.
One cannot see the "flies in one's eyes" correctly because of the "flies in ones eyes".
A clear lens can be likened to the surface of a pond. When the water is quiet and not muddy it reflect or (resonates with) the outside world with little distortion and from many perspectives simultaneously.
Likewise the surface of clear quiet water reflects without distortion.
A dirty lens creates noise and distortion which in turn can be perceived with distortion.
One cannot see the "flies in one's eyes" correctly because of the "flies in ones eyes".
A clear lens can be likened to the surface of a pond. When the water is quiet and not muddy it reflect or (resonates with) the outside world with little distortion and from many perspectives simultaneously.
Likewise the surface of clear quiet water reflects without distortion.
Breathing and Attention
Breathing and attention are like brother and sister. Where the breath goes so does the attention. When the breath is shallow, attention is shallow. When the breath is deep, attention can be deep. Breathing is the point where the voluntary meets the involuntary. Every breath is an echo of the original one breath. Let the breath be undivided, then when you fully find the point where reality splits into two; it convulses into one. This point has awaited your attention even before you were born.
Simple Silly Sayings
What you most fear is what's most near
What you deny will make you lie
And what you resist will always persist
For what you hide will still abide
Your shadow knows beneath your clothes
Hide in a role and lose your soul
When you don’t breathe life takes its leave.
What you don't cry begins to die
What you don't use you’ll surely lose
What you repress will make a mess
So repossess what you repress
Feel Primal Pain’s emotional brain
And make it less when you express
To empty the pot you must practice a lot
And what you should heed is what you need
To move up from survive to be fully alive
Let “what you notice” unfold like a Lotus
Let your life be surprised by what will arise
What you don't taste you’ll surely waste
And meditate don't medicate
For what you allow you can avow
What you face & embrace you can surely erase
What you feel you can surely heal
Go up to your box and open the locks
For what you can be, you will set free
What you think will make a link
But what you conclude will delude
It’s what you don't know that makes you grow
When you’re direct you will connect
Jump in the stream that flows through your meme
When you’re in the flow you can trust what you know
Mind plus Heart makes you act smart
When no-thing is your clothing
Figure-ground is lost and found
There is no “duel” in non-dual
In the eye of the storm “Emptiness is form”,
You want the truth? then let it loose
Get off the hook, shut up and look!
What you see and hear will make it clear
The Suchness of things the whole universe sings
What you deny will make you lie
And what you resist will always persist
For what you hide will still abide
Your shadow knows beneath your clothes
Hide in a role and lose your soul
When you don’t breathe life takes its leave.
What you don't cry begins to die
What you don't use you’ll surely lose
What you repress will make a mess
So repossess what you repress
Feel Primal Pain’s emotional brain
And make it less when you express
To empty the pot you must practice a lot
And what you should heed is what you need
To move up from survive to be fully alive
Let “what you notice” unfold like a Lotus
Let your life be surprised by what will arise
What you don't taste you’ll surely waste
And meditate don't medicate
For what you allow you can avow
What you face & embrace you can surely erase
What you feel you can surely heal
Go up to your box and open the locks
For what you can be, you will set free
What you think will make a link
But what you conclude will delude
It’s what you don't know that makes you grow
When you’re direct you will connect
Jump in the stream that flows through your meme
When you’re in the flow you can trust what you know
Mind plus Heart makes you act smart
When no-thing is your clothing
Figure-ground is lost and found
There is no “duel” in non-dual
In the eye of the storm “Emptiness is form”,
You want the truth? then let it loose
Get off the hook, shut up and look!
What you see and hear will make it clear
The Suchness of things the whole universe sings
Achieving Balance
May we be able to achieve balance (homeostasis) between:
Process and Content
Abstinence and Indulgence
Healthy Pleasure and Healthy Discomfort
Work, Rest and Enjoyment
Doing and Being
Contact and Withdrawal
Current Gratification and Deferred Gratification
Narrow Focus and Diffuse Focus
Healthy Creation and Healthy Destruction
Health Shoulds and Healthy Wants
Nourishment from Self and Nourishment from Others
Charge and Discharge
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Heart, Mind and Soul
Healthy Strength and Healthy Weakness
Process and Content
Abstinence and Indulgence
Healthy Pleasure and Healthy Discomfort
Work, Rest and Enjoyment
Doing and Being
Contact and Withdrawal
Current Gratification and Deferred Gratification
Narrow Focus and Diffuse Focus
Healthy Creation and Healthy Destruction
Health Shoulds and Healthy Wants
Nourishment from Self and Nourishment from Others
Charge and Discharge
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Heart, Mind and Soul
Healthy Strength and Healthy Weakness
God / illusion
The very thing we seek is the essence of everything around us
There is no place in the universe which is not the very center of God
Like a child playing with the long veil of illusion, we learn to play hide and seek with reality
Such a fascinating game that, at one time, gently caresses us and loves us until we open our eyes,
and at another, walks us kicking and screaming through the painful primal fires that wake us up
Life itself won't leave us alone, forever beckoning us to see what has always been in front of our face
Unfold yourself to see what God has never seen and has always been
Chant the infinitely long sacred words of true emptiness and existence. This is the sound of God's voice
There is but one voice echoed in an infinite number of ways.
It is said the ear through which we hear God is the same ear through which God hears us
Now….. Just listen!!
The fabric of a young child's game never existed. That which is left, dies and is reborn in every vibration
No one is left
In the mundane is the highest celebration of God's presence
Now enjoy a piece of chocolate!
There is no place in the universe which is not the very center of God
Like a child playing with the long veil of illusion, we learn to play hide and seek with reality
Such a fascinating game that, at one time, gently caresses us and loves us until we open our eyes,
and at another, walks us kicking and screaming through the painful primal fires that wake us up
Life itself won't leave us alone, forever beckoning us to see what has always been in front of our face
Unfold yourself to see what God has never seen and has always been
Chant the infinitely long sacred words of true emptiness and existence. This is the sound of God's voice
There is but one voice echoed in an infinite number of ways.
It is said the ear through which we hear God is the same ear through which God hears us
Now….. Just listen!!
The fabric of a young child's game never existed. That which is left, dies and is reborn in every vibration
No one is left
In the mundane is the highest celebration of God's presence
Now enjoy a piece of chocolate!
Catch What Eludes You
Catch what eludes you.
Move along dimensions you haven't imagined yet.
Loosen the tight helmet of your own conditioning.
Embody the message of your own experience.
Breathe breathing. Feel what you haven't felt yet.
Waves lapping on the lakeshore for no reason, giving birth to each moment
Each a page in the true book of revelation
Move along dimensions you haven't imagined yet.
Loosen the tight helmet of your own conditioning.
Embody the message of your own experience.
Breathe breathing. Feel what you haven't felt yet.
Waves lapping on the lakeshore for no reason, giving birth to each moment
Each a page in the true book of revelation
Feeing Felt
Feeling Felt
Breath Breathed
Thought thought
Existence existed
Nothingness nothinged
Not this, not that. What a relief!
Breath Breathed
Thought thought
Existence existed
Nothingness nothinged
Not this, not that. What a relief!
How Truth Comes Through
The truth comes from all existence.
How could it be any other way?
It comes through in spite of any book.
It comes through in spite of any belief or religion.
When you grasp it you are misled.
When you think about it you are misled.
The most amazing thing is that we have such tremendous abilities to keep ourselves from seeing it
Consider just to stop doing what keeps you from the truth.
Consider awakening your passion to discover and find out.
Religion, beliefs and books can often be the tools of the sleepwalker. (We all start as sleepwalkers.)
Relying on them, without transcending them
is like stationing yourself at the sign post without moving on down the road in the direction sign is pointing.
It is also like wearing your clothes in the shower.
When you put them aside you get the full shower.
This "shower" washes away that which is not true.
It washes away our own bull shit and the bullshit in the world.
The water reaches the roots of your being.
What is left is a delightful spacious emptiness that cannot be compared.
Get naked.
In this space you can grow fast.
How could it be any other way?
It comes through in spite of any book.
It comes through in spite of any belief or religion.
When you grasp it you are misled.
When you think about it you are misled.
The most amazing thing is that we have such tremendous abilities to keep ourselves from seeing it
Consider just to stop doing what keeps you from the truth.
Consider awakening your passion to discover and find out.
Religion, beliefs and books can often be the tools of the sleepwalker. (We all start as sleepwalkers.)
Relying on them, without transcending them
is like stationing yourself at the sign post without moving on down the road in the direction sign is pointing.
It is also like wearing your clothes in the shower.
When you put them aside you get the full shower.
This "shower" washes away that which is not true.
It washes away our own bull shit and the bullshit in the world.
The water reaches the roots of your being.
What is left is a delightful spacious emptiness that cannot be compared.
Get naked.
In this space you can grow fast.
Naked Awareness - Naked Pain
Let naked awareness touch naked pain
Unlock that which is bound up
The unbearable is bared one writhe at a time
Don't hide from the wounds you don't know you have
Crack open futility and hopelessness to reveal the unfelt
Unlock that which is bound up
The unbearable is bared one writhe at a time
Don't hide from the wounds you don't know you have
Crack open futility and hopelessness to reveal the unfelt
See Yourself
To see yourself - look at a flower
Every arrow of attention that shoots out sends a twin arrow of attention within
As Emptiness and Form are the same, so are these arrows
These arrows can kill you
Die this moment and your life is returned to you
"Blessed are those who were born before they were born"
Blessed are those who died before they died
Every arrow of attention that shoots out sends a twin arrow of attention within
As Emptiness and Form are the same, so are these arrows
These arrows can kill you
Die this moment and your life is returned to you
"Blessed are those who were born before they were born"
Blessed are those who died before they died
Motto
Highest consciousness
Highest creativity
Highest expression
Highest activity
Highest joy
Deepest shadow work
Deepest feelings
Deepest pain
Deepest release
Deepest ground
Deepest flow
Deepest healing
Deepest truth
Biggest whole
Never lose sight of the whole
Never compromise health
Highest creativity
Highest expression
Highest activity
Highest joy
Deepest shadow work
Deepest feelings
Deepest pain
Deepest release
Deepest ground
Deepest flow
Deepest healing
Deepest truth
Biggest whole
Never lose sight of the whole
Never compromise health
Self-Liberating
Fall from the tree with shimmering leaves and swaying branches
surrendering existence as you fall
Symphony playing itself
One note, One Taste
Bottomless space liberating itself
surrendering existence as you fall
Symphony playing itself
One note, One Taste
Bottomless space liberating itself
Dying to One's Self
To lay down one's life for one's self
Allow your self to die into your organism
No longer necessary
a sacrifice of the greatest love
No one is here
no one is here!
Reality itself sees
Be seen by the trees
Be seen by the mountains
Yet there is nothing to see
There is no one to look at
Allow your self to die into your organism
No longer necessary
a sacrifice of the greatest love
No one is here
no one is here!
Reality itself sees
Be seen by the trees
Be seen by the mountains
Yet there is nothing to see
There is no one to look at
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