Belief seemingly creates or conjures the believer, the story creates the storyteller. In truth, in deep inner exploration along the line of inquiry “who am I, really?” there may be the disturbing discovery that there is no separate entity – no believer or person, no story or story-teller – to be found. The supposed ‘person’ […]
In reality, there’s nothing separate, nothing personal.Conditioned mind, with its beliefs, conjures the Great Divide, apparently. Indeed, as many teachings that point beyond the individual mind variously state, ultimately: ‘There is no observer, nothing observed, only observing’. Only awareness is aware. In other words, there is no experiencer, nothing experienced, only experiencing…one can see this […]
“What causes war—religious, political, or economic? Obviously, belief, either in nationalism, in an ideology, or in a particular dogma. If we had no belief but goodwill, love, and consideration between us, then there would be no wars. But we are fed on beliefs, ideas, and dogmas and therefore we breed discontent. The present crisis is […]
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that […]
Grazing lightly on the news these days, it seems these times are like all times: full of confined, contested and conflicted humans variously and consistently repeating all the common errors man is heir to. There’s apparently all the historical desires and familiar fears, but now they’re globally amped up by social, story-based media, and the […]
Like a quiet country pond edged with silvery trees in winter and stumbled upon early in the morning light, this stillness speaks not with words but with its silence; with its grace in subtly, simply, suddenly, being. A being that is but is not personal, and which cannot be known by the limited sentient body/mind.Being […]
In aware living, there’s a gentle quieting – usually first of the mind and then of the body; there’s a plain observing and delighting in, what is, as it is. That which is ‘watching’ is changeless constant awareness; the comings and goings of thoughts, feelings, perceptions and sensations are the flow of consciousness, so to […]
“I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,Nor do I understand who can be more wonderful than myself.Why should I wish to see God better than this day?…That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be.”(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass) ~ These days […]
Q: It’s apparent that we cannot actually know what anything is, we can only know our concepts. Mind cannot capture it. Science seems to ‘progress’ by breaking things up and naming every fragment as though it were separate. Is there actually such a thing as ‘reality’ or is there no such thing as I have […]
Life is not a thing that you learn from somebody. Life is something you listen to, that you understand in a living way, from moment to moment, without accumulating experiences.When one ceases being fascinated by the content of the mind – by the many yesterdays fragmentally stored in memory – one finds that there’s a […]