Looking Back
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…
Grace and Practice
Enlightenment is a function of Grace. But then so is practice. Some might say there’s a qualitative difference between the (seemingly) personal activities or practices like ‘letting go’ or ‘noticing and returning’ and the actions of Grace. But these are as much the spontaneous display of consciousness as the final dissolution of the (illusory) egoic…
Notice and Return
In meditation and in life, notice when you’re hooked and return to the present moment. Keep doing that and after a while the notice doesn’t require a return. Just noticing is enough. The consistent and natural presence of awareness to the hookedness allows it just release and disappear back from whence it came. What I’m…
Some Thoughts on the Creative Calling
We’re called to face our fears and act according to our intuitive inspiration. This is the calling. And a true calling won’t let us off the hook. It gets all entangled with our conscience. Not heeding it will stop us sleeping at night, it’ll fill our souls with guilt and doubt and anxiety, it’ll nag…
Untitled Thoughts #12
Sometimes it’s hard to remain unattached. The secret is to release as you notice it and keep doing it. Patiently, repeatedly, endlessly if necessary. It’s that willingness to let go when you see you’re grasping, contracting, resisting. The practice is notice and release or notice and return. Or even notice and allow. There’s no…
Weekly Satsang Group
Satsang (‘sat’ = Truth, reality; ‘sangha’ = community, coming together) is the context in which the exploration and recognition of our true nature can take place. You’re invited to join me on Saturdays for weekly Satsang meetings on Zoom. Together we’ll explore the true nature of reality, the ‘world’ and Self. All information including the…
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…
Nihil Extra Conscientiam
You can’t find anything that exists outside of mind/consciousness. That’s a different claim than there *is* nothing outside of mind. But there’s zero evidence for anything *extra conscientiam* and the hypothesis there’s an *objective* world is unprovable. https://t.co/2b1TbrWjT2 — Martyn… (@martynwebber) March 28, 2024