Once upon a time in ancient Athens, the early Greeks introduced what we today call ‘Democracy’. As depicted on this Italian hand-painted lustreware (19th century?) over my kitchen sink, it was a pragmatic process to not so much elect as to select, a leader. The citizen Senators – all wealthy farmers – would conspire among […]
~* A Caveat: All that’s said here is not meant to pretend, contend, or defend. In word-smithing unknowables like ‘awareness,’ there’s a certain non-conceptual ‘knowing’ that, effortlessly, must happen, that transports one beyond intelligent understanding by the mind. As J. Krishnamurti said: “Thought is never intelligent… the perception of the truth is intelligence, and in […]
Awareness is not a happening in time/space. Awareness is not a happening in time/space; it’s not an experience with its experiencer. It’s not a phenomenal ‘it’ but a timeless noumenal IS, like love, peace, beauty, which does not pass and cannot be stained by the mind’s sentient, passing beliefs. Awareness is before anything is perceived; […]
What one IS is seen when one lovingly dismisses the mind’s conditioned and cultivated personal fears as they arise in awareness. ~There are two kinds of fear: Instinctive – food, clothing, and shelter fear arising from our body-born insecurities – and Psychological, mind-made fear. The first is cellular, physical, essential, and best addressed with care […]
DAWNINGS: The Last Ideal. Here’s the first chapter of my unpublished novel exploring living in both its apparent dual, personal, and non-dual modes. Also, here’s the Intro, and an invitation to read, comment, and share. Love, and be well https://jameswaite2.substack.com/p/dawnings-the-last-ideal ~ In the telling of this tale, there’s a wandering, wondering, and weaving of […]
~ An insightful poem by Heloisa Moura 😉 “In pure seeing, there is no seer apart from the seen.” Jean Klein ~* The Seeing Without a Seer. Look at what is here before the mind names it. A color appears. A sound arises. Light touches the eyes. There is seeing. Then thought says, I am […]
Life passes – or, more accurately, it seems we pass it – with most of us, most of the time, focused on the gross – the conflicts and contradictions manufactured by our noisy, conditioned minds. You know, the beliefs, desires, and fears that keep us head down, heart closed, and often dimly despairing, if not […]
Reflections on living, aging, and reality. ~ Timeless awareness, like meditation & love, is not a personal effort; there’s no chooser; it’s a new dimension, freely happening:) ~ In aware living, there’s an unattached, intimate body/brain experiencing, a delight & wonder in unknown being 🙂 ~ The history of war is the history of belief; […]
~* The whole of it all is sometimes overwhelming when the reality of being suddenly presents. Whilst sitting here to perhaps write something, the title above popped into my head and evoked a smile of recognition related to a recent errand to buy some light bulbs in town; it touches subtly on aware living, on […]
Objects don’t have beauty; beauty has objects. There is beauty with & without objects. There seems to be a relative, conditioned, personalized ‘beauty’ and…in reality, pure, unconditioned, non-personalized beauty, like love, peace, and joy, that is innately, existentially, absolutely foundational. The various culturally conditioned mind’s descriptions and dissections of a frog do not tell us […]
