We Live and Move

ByMartyn 2022-06-132024-09-13

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.

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The Mind Always Has Something to Say
ByMartyn 2020-11-302024-09-11

The mind always has something to say about what’s happening. It’s interpretive and descriptive. It ascribes meaning and motivation. It tells causal stories about reality to make sense of it and to be able to communicate it to others. What story do I tell about my life? What does my narrative sound like? I Am….

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Perhaps the Greatest Exponent of Self-Inquiry
ByMartyn 2020-12-102024-09-11

Perhaps the greatest exponent of self-inquiry and Self-realisation is Sri Ramana Maharshi. The genius of his method, in it’s simplicity and power, is unexcelled. Who is the knower? This is the fundamental question. Who am I? But remember, the answer to this question is experiential not conceptual. So ‘look’, don’t think. Observe, don’t analyse. Experience,…

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The Beginning and End of This Whole Existence
ByMartyn 2021-11-222024-09-11

The beginning and end of this whole existence and the arena of ‘The Work’ and the unfolding of the so-called ‘process of awakening’ is this present moment. The past shows up here as memory, the future as imagination. Cognition, mentation, sensory arisings, all happen here. It’s this now-ness, this such-ness that constitutes Reality. And liberation…

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Awakened Mind Has No Prescriptions
ByMartyn 2020-11-252024-09-11

Awakened mind has no prescriptions, only descriptions. But since the world at large is dualistic, we have to translate much of what we hear into non-personal terms. So doing becomes happening. And moral or spiritual injunctions become the recognition and description of our nature and tendencies rather than actions we take as autonomous individuals.

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The Impulse to Spiritual Practice
ByMartyn 2018-08-312024-09-13

The impulse to spiritual practice is the impulse to awaken so even if practice is wrong or poor or difficult or ineffectual it’s never misguided, and in the worst cases it can be redirected or transformed to better express the core impulse. All the prayers and mantras and chants are well and good but the…

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Get Out of Your Mind
ByMartyn 2022-08-032024-09-11

Get out of your mind and into your direct experiencing.

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