If you have to live (with something), if it’s inevitable and inescapable, you’d best learn to love it.
I’m talking about life itself, all of it.
You gotta go all the way.
If you have to live (with something), if it’s inevitable and inescapable, you’d best learn to love it.
I’m talking about life itself, all of it.
You gotta go all the way.
It’s fine to look backwards sometimes but who wants to spend their days stewing on what was? The time is now, life is now. All possibilities exist in the great unknown yawning out before us. But looking back I don’t think I was ever a great listener. I was always too occupied by my own…
The problem of human suffering is the problem of misapprehension. Our ideas about the nature of the world are at odds with the reality of it. The key mistake is that we take ourselves to be separate individuals existing in an objective world. We believe that our sense of I-ness originates in the physical body…
Could it be so simple, to let life flow without disturbance or resistance? Just get out of the way.
The human world is all concepts made manifest. You can’t look at a human construction without recognising its conceptual basis. But what of the constructions of nature? Who’s conceptions are they?
The teachings of nonduality can sometimes seem to be somewhat abstract, or removed from one’s lived experience, or even rejecting of it. It may be that these teachings, being so uncompromising about the causes of suffering and its remedies, seem to disregard the human-ness of life in favour of a cold, relentless discrimination. But the truth…
The mind always has something to say about what’s happening. It’s interpretive and descriptive. It ascribes meaning and motivation. It tells causal stories about reality to make sense of it and to be able to communicate it to others. What story do I tell about my life? What does my narrative sound like? I Am….