We Don’t Know

We Don’t Know

We don’t know what we’re going to do or what’s going to happen. We can only speculate. It’s knowing that we don’t know that’s the trick. And it might be that this constitutes powerlessness. But it also amounts to freedom from the need to control. There’s this deep mystery around what we ‘choose’ to do….

Sit Quietly

Sit quietly And with your inner awareness Try to find somewhere where you have control I’m not suggesting you try to take control Just see if you can find any possibility to do so Be curious and notice Subtly What are the foundations of movement and change in your experience? How do they come about…

Mind the Gap

All intelligence is a modulation and expression of the Great Intelligence. Just as a single leaf is no less tree than the branch or the trunk or the root. All is tree, all is creative intelligence. Knowing the nature of one’s Being is sufficient to end suffering. In the light of our nature as boundless…

Thinking Allowed

We are opaque to ourselves. We don’t know why we do the things we do, what our deep motivations are. We just act first and explain or excuse later. It’s how it works, how we work; act first, the mind accounts for it later. Which makes sense as we were pre-verbal as living organisms for…

The Sanity of Surrender

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,…