Posted in General on May 28th, 2020 3 Comments »
The most striking, and seemingly absurd, aspect of awakening is the discovery that there is no one inside the mind-body. Everything in our culture, our rearing and our assumptions about ourselves & human life holds that we are individual, separate people. There is absolutely no evidence of this. Sounds crazy, huh? What about the entirety […]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2020 3 Comments »
When you come to realize there’s nothing you can do to “get free”, “wake up” or the like, the (at first unwanted) implication is that you are of no use in such matters. This is the end of time, whether accepted or not. In this case, time is a seeker’s illusory urge toward some desired […]
Posted in General on May 24th, 2020 1 Comment »
The true agent of change is “seeing”. If thinking intervenes before seeing is complete, there will be ideas about the matter, but no complete seeing, and transforming change will not happen. So, for instance, if one is contemplating fear while wondering if it can cease: one might see how it necessarily flows from the belief […]