True Guidance - Martyn Webber

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The Awakened Heart Is a Broken Heart

ByMartyn 2019-06-222024-09-10

There’s grief in awakening. Grief at the loss of autonomy, grief at the loss of purpose and meaning. Grief at the loss of knowing and certainty, however deluded they were. There’s grief over losing one’s power, and one’s familiar identity. There’s so much loss in awakening. When it dawns that there’s nothing we can keep,…

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Imagination and Fear

ByMartyn 2020-05-192024-09-11

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…

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Keep It Simple

ByMartyn 2020-01-012024-09-12

Keep it simple Have no expectations Take whatever comes

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Much of Our Tension and Contraction

ByMartyn 2020-12-282024-09-11

Much of our tension and contraction and clinging is a response to our inherent sense of groundlessness. Ironically, in attempting to find some firm footing we distress ourselves even more. The answer to the issue of groundlessness isn’t to grasp but to let go. Clutching after unattainable certainty, security, stability, permanence, has us perpetually fearful…

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Not Me and Not You

ByMartyn 2018-08-152024-09-10

I was sitting outside a café with a friend some time ago, and we were talking about ‘consensus reality’ as he put it. He was wishing that he could be free of its influence. I sympathised with his POV but pointed out that we aren’t actually bound by it, and it’s enough to recognise one’s…