That anything exists at all, let alone is self-aware, is beyond statistical speculation, it’s miraculous in the truest sense.
This is the true nature of reality and is what we rightly call Divine and Mystery.
That anything exists at all, let alone is self-aware, is beyond statistical speculation, it’s miraculous in the truest sense.
This is the true nature of reality and is what we rightly call Divine and Mystery.
Just because the nature of conditioned realityIs an illusionIs dream-likeAnd ultimately incorporealDoesn’t mean that it’s to be deniedOr seen as a problem in itself And the presence of sufferingIn the conditioned realmDoesn’t necessitateThe wholesale abandonmentOf all experiencing Just see through the illusionAnd enjoy the ride Everything we need to knowIs available to us in this…
Live life as it comes Don’t hold out for the promise of tomorrow This is the gift we’ve been given This moment As it is Is the fullness of Grace So don’t be ungrateful And don’t miss the magic of now This is it
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?
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,…
In the course of our lives sometimes we find that we don’t really want what’s happening, we wouldn’t necessarily choose it for ourselves. But we’re called to it, it’s happening and so we have to make our peace with it. In order to stay sane and non-distressed we have to give our assent to the…
I’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…