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Questions
ByMartynWhat is This? Who am I? What am I? What kind of answers am I looking for? What could satisfy? Questions are beautiful, more illuminating than answers. Questions stop the mind. So if I told you “you are consciousness”, would that help? Would you be satisfied? Would your suffering diminish at all with that piece…
The Delusion Known as ‘Personhood’
ByMartynThe delusion known as ‘personhood’ or ‘self-view’ persists until it starts to collapse under the weight of its own evidential unreality. At which point the true nature of self and reality, namely consciousness, becomes increasingly* and eventually* entirely self-evident. *Or: rapidly, immediately, suddenly, instantly… And of course the opposite can also occur: the consciousness-nature becomes…
The Usurper
ByMartynThe mind, it just makes up a bunch of questions to bother itself with. Questions that it demands answers to before it will allow itself to rest. Which of course is never. The mind just endlessly justifies its own existence, its own primacy. But maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on the mind. It’s doing…
Religion as a Ladder
ByMartynI’m musing on the idea that in principle, religion offers the appropriate instruction, practice, and experience for every level of spiritual development. The thought is that even at the most basic level of understanding and spiritual development, it offers an appropriate message to meet the person where they are. And at the highest levels of…
For Those Who Seek Truth
ByMartynFor those who seek Truth And leave the dream circus behind The Self is liberation All pointings are imperfect But when the Self wishes to be known Who could stop it? What could obscure it? Likewise The seeker is helpless to see What is right under their nose Hidden in plain sight As the Seer…
Our Minds Are So Conditioned
ByMartynOur minds are so conditioned for complexity, engagement, entertainment. It’s often a challenge just to be willing and able to let go of all these outward drags, and instead allow the mind and being to settle down within itself. To just stop grasping and chasing and see what comes to take its place. To take…
