The ego-mind is driven by fear, it desperately needs something to hold onto in the ocean of uncertainty that is life.
The ego-mind is driven by fear, it desperately needs something to hold onto in the ocean of uncertainty that is life.
Just give up on self-will and see what life want you to be, to do, to have.It’s radical kenosis – the self-emptying that allows us to be led into the larger space of being.
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…
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…
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,…
The fourth state, turiya, pure consciousness, is present with all other states. But at first it’s perceived, as its name suggests, as one alternating with other states of consciousness. Until through repeated and consistent exposure it’s revealed to be the foundational and ubiquitous, singular reality.
We live and move according to our deepest values. It’s not always clear what they are, but our actions reveal them, not our words.