She said she can achieve nothingness, but no change results from it and so her mind eventually wanders. By this she meant that she can be thoughtless—not an image or a word drifting into awareness. And still… nothing. Not the nothing of Truth, but the nothing of anticipation followed by the letdown of unfulfilled expectation. […]
One frustration that used to plague me was when friends and not-so-friendlies would get upset with me for stating opinions without prefacing them with, “In my opinion….” Did they not know it was my opinion? If it’s not a fact (or Truth) and it’s squawking from my mouth, isn’t it obviously my opinion? Why did […]
HE WRITES: Hi Jeremy, I have just started reading, Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep, by Charlie Morley and in it was the following passage… …Albert Einstein once wrote, ‘A human being… experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion […]
Yeah, man. Take a hit of this, man… and free your miiiiiiind…. The mind can alter gradually or in a singular transformative moment. The main way modern spiritual modalities display hierarchies is by misrepresenting lateral methods of slow transition to heart as vertical moves toward wholeness. This, because our want as thought constructs is to […]
What comes to mind when you think of the miracle of life? Babies being born from nothing into everything? The interplay between species in a complex web of life? The mystery of the universe itself? Isn’t the underlying miracle of life existence? Most, if not all, things in life bear meticulous design, inherent action, and […]
The limited cannot understand the limitless; it can only incorporate some of its attributes into limitation. The latest version, and most clever, is to suppose that there is no limitlessness, there is only that which is just beyond the boundaries of our limitation, and that reaching to it, discovering it, exploring it, owning it, and […]