“Psychologically.. we do not know how to die to a problem. To die to a problem is not to continue it and carry it over to tomorrow. A problem exists only when you are not capable of looking at the fact.” ~ J Krishnamurti * Where we live – in our head and heart, in […]
“We confuse the world as it is with the world as it is thought about, talked about and figured about –the world as it is described.” ~ Allen Watts The Germans have a word for it – a “hintegedanka”.The word is a hint about something we all relate to, if only vaguely, and a few […]
“The brain is the result of time, experience and knowledge. The very activity of the brain is based on past remembrances, whether illusory, actual or accumulated knowledge. And the brain is caught in time; its activity is time-binding. The brain, which is thought, is the remembrance of the past in the present, modifying itself into […]
Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace… we just need to declare it.~ John Lennon Peace is not an idea, an ideal; one cannot […]
When attention rests on itself, there is awareness:clarity, delight and gratitude. Love. ‘Attention rests on itself’ is yet another rather poetically worded way of saying ‘Awareness is aware of itself only; it ‘rests’ in and on, itself. Awareness, being beyond the finite body/brain experience of phenomena that changes, is the changeless ground of being (noumena, […]
“Thought has invented all the things called sacred – the saviour, the temples and the contents of the temples. Thought in itself is not sacred, so when thought invents God, God is not sacred. The question arises then: what is sacred? That can only be understood or lived or happen when there is complete freedom […]
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 […]
