It’s gently raining and the delicate drops flow and tinkle melodiously down the drain pipe near my open window. The light outside is soft wet greens and misty grays; the three story high forest of needled trees fifty feet away wave and beckon me to step out and to step into, nature. We’ll see if […]
Reality, Peace and joy are at the heart of deep healing. In aware living, in being well and living truly, there’s no future. No past either. We discover what’s next, only when and as, it happens, now. In truth, in life, in non-personal fact, the pattern and rhythm of what is keeps changing; in quietude and gratitude, we […]
The root of all allusion, delusion and confusion is belief. To ‘believe’ requires a believer; a ‘someone’ conceptually, theoretically separated out only by the conditioned mind; a somebody that describes and comes to believe its own conceptual imaginings – it’s castings of good/bad, right/wrong, define and confine almost all of our daily experience. The Mind […]
In J Krishnamurti’s intimate daily diary, after deeply reflecting on the violence of his time, he notes a response that’s as relevant and useful today as it was then:“In total attention, the summation of all energy, violence in all of its forms, comes to an end. Attention is not a word, an abstract formula of […]
“When you give total, complete attention, you will find for yourself, or learn for yourself that ‘what is’ undergoes a tremendous revolution.”~ J Krishnamurti Attention is one’s natural state; it is timeless, and that is its’ enduring beauty. Here’s an oldish note about it that – on rediscovering it this morning – seems as relevant […]
In aware living, I’ve noted recently that there’s a gentle moving into, as it were, the silence of being. Indeed, there are less noisy and chatty occasions in the head and heart, and there’s an abiding recognition of actually, factually, only – ever and always – living in complete unknowing. Only in silence can the […]
Why does it seem to be so difficult to recognize awareness is not a body/mind experience? Indeed, it’s beyond all experience; awareness is the knowing of itself, by itself. Awareness & emptiness.It seems that ’emptiness’ (of self identity) is the first profound recognition in suddenly rediscovering one is actually pure life, living HERE; that renewed […]
In simple aware living, there’s a constant delight in wholeness as it presents itself in the particular, the immediate, the really small elemental arisings of living, of life happening only now: the clink of a cup, the sniffing of the ocean air tickling the nose, the impulse to write and post this little note inspired […]
Lately, I talked with a friend whose body is ill; she asked if I had any advise regarding healing; I hesitated, said I really had no medical or nutritional insights to offer, but then, on reflection, two thoughts appeared which seemed useful and practical from my experience, having been applied on several occasions of various […]
“By thoughts, or mental words, we distinguish or ‘make’ things. Without thoughts, there are no ‘things’; there is just undefined reality.”~ Alan Watts. The mind – including mine – can get stuck on believing its ideas of opposites: good/bad, right/wrong, presence/absence, etc. Indeed, conclusions are the binary (0-1) either/or, ego-mind attempts to define, to know, […]
