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Fullness
Is nondual spirituality nihilistic? Desirelessness, powerlessness, emptiness. Sacrifice, surrender, formlessness. Are these more fundamental than, say: fullness, all-possibilities, bountifulness, unboundedness, bliss? It’s all well and good focusing on the qualities of mind required for the apprehension of silence. But this emptiness is full, this fullness is empty. All around me I see fullness, I see…
Bliss Is Always Here
Bliss is always here in our experience, but we have to surrender to it. Otherwise we experience it as suffering.
What Is Human Nature in Relation to Spiritual Nature?
What is human nature in relation to spiritual nature? Is our spiritual nature in fact the fulfilment of our human nature? Isn’t that what the saints and sages have been telling us all this time? That we have an innate divine potential that represents the fruition of our humanity. So for all our monstrous capacities:…
Peace Through Truth
Is there a way to find peace and freedom from affliction? Does truth have a bearing on this? Let’s see… Phenomena are spontaneously arising and naturally self-liberating. We have no control over said phenomena because we don’t exist as any kind of being that could exercise control. Therefore bringing clarity to the actual state of…
Finding My Process
Creative process is a really interesting subject to me. All creatives seem to have one, but the only commonality is that there is one. The details vary considerably. “Find your own way,” seems to be the imperative. Find out by doing and then reflecting on the doing. Maybe then you can extract some rules or guidelines, some…
Awakened Mind Has No Prescriptions
Awakened mind has no prescriptions, only descriptions. But since the world at large is dualistic, we have to translate much of what we hear into non-personal terms. So doing becomes happening. And moral or spiritual injunctions become the recognition and description of our nature and tendencies rather than actions we take as autonomous individuals.
