Wanting, craving, thirsting, clinging. This is the way of non-acceptance, the way of misery. And so the opposite is true: Desirelessness, non-grasping, non-attachment, openness. This is the way of acceptance, the way of joy and peace.
We have this powerful imagination and it’s mostly used for envisioning futures, and that allows us to plan, coordinate, cooperate. But when we believe our imagined scenarios to be reality we can suffer them too. I believe the great challenge of our species is to learn to manage this mental functioning, to be able to…
Whenever desire or dissatisfaction shows up our first instinct is to try to get or change something. We’re trained to leap up and run after our impulses like show-dogs. Desire says “jump” and we say “how high?!” And since these thoughts and feelings and wants keep popping up, large and small, we’re endlessly running around,…
It’s the now that counts. It’s the present-moment that is most ‘real’. The rest is memory and imagination, which both have tremendous value of course. But THIS IS IT, this is the place of power, this is where all the action is. NOW. And so much of that power is dispersed when we miss it,…
Enlightenment, liberation, awakening is all about reality. It’s about recognising what and how reality is, and when we do, resistance to it falls away. It’s about not expecting reality to be other than it is, not wishing and expecting the impossible. And the way to it is mostly about watching and observing and letting life…
Nothing to see, nothing to do. Just what is. I, I, I,.. there is no separate I. When you remove the voice that says that you do, or that you can do, what’s left and how does it move? We abide as Big Mind, as Self. Consciousness is dreaming the world into existence. And who…