Sometimes, in addressing questions about awareness, love and truth, I say perhaps it may be this or that or inside or outside, etc. not out of doubt or confusion, but to acknowledge that reality – and the apparent approach to it – seems different for each of us…in our particularly programmed and prejudiced minds. Indeed, […]
ILLUSIONEERING: Inventing our problems We live in a kind of ‘underlife’ in the shadows of what neuroscience recognizes as six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, sadness, surprise. Oh yes, and joy! That’s the one that keeps the other five from totally overwhelming us! It makes for an occasionally agreeable deception, doesn’t it? But not often, […]
THE LITTLE BOOK OF AWARE LIVING, AS IT HAPPENS. ~ Introduction: Perhaps these days are an especially good time to find an inner quiet place on the sunny side of being. To rest here, in our peaceful nature. To pause and look a little closer perhaps, at the news stories we’ve been culturally and socially […]
Living in peace simply arises in resting in the ground of silence behind any and all passing experience.In aware living, in resting totally here and now in quietude and gratitude, one allows the body and mind ie the supposed ‘person’, to be emptied of all the subtle and gross resistances that disturb the peace of […]
~In aware living we recognize we’re much more than we personally think and feel is love, happiness, peace and beauty. Aware love knows no division, aware happiness knows no lack and real peace knows no conflict, beauty knows no choice. In fact, we’re unlimited and unknown awareness, choicelessly beholding itself. 🙂 [ love and candles, […]
~ Really, what we all want is peace of mind, and we err when we look to find any peace in a mind that’s binary (thinks in opposites, in comparing/contrasting, either/or, good/bad) and is therefore always conflicted. Fortunately, our nature is peace. In loving awareness which we are, the mind’s activities are lovingly, non-judgmentally, openly […]
There is only One awareness, aware of the universal oneness of itself, fully. It’s nature is our nature: peace, love, beauty – the enjoyment of watching one’s whole self unfolding. There is no subject/object, cause/effect, aka duality. Words believed conjure a personal duality and therefore division, apparently.This one awareness is intimate but not personal and […]
“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov’d with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treason, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let not such man be trusted.” William Shakespeare. I just vaguely recalled and gogled the above, […]
~ Ultimately, in realizing one actually lives in – and is – the unknown, we’re free to not already know, to not need to know; to stop dissecting a frog and pretending we know what a frog is, so to speak. Free to abide aware and unattached to any and all phenomena that appears and […]
In living here, questions fall away. We no longer see a ‘world’ according to our beliefs – those believed opinions that shape experience and personalize it. Looking from pure awareness, we see what is, as is, without opinions/beliefs. It’s that nonpersonal, ‘aware’ perspective of our inherent common awareness simply ‘seeing’ without knowing…lovingly, wonderfully, beautifully..in truth, […]