Your Duty
My favorite picture of my dear friend Thomas. We were in San Diego, spooling up for Slab City. (Slab City pics coming next.) Question: “What is implied by ‘seeing into the Real Nature’”? Answer: “That Nature and your perception of it are one. Let me repeat that the perceived cannot perceive.” -Huang Po For years, […]
Everything Good
Nobody, in his apartment. “The only evil is inattention.” -Wu Hsin Inattention is the enemy of happiness. All the mind’s tricks, all its problems and worries lurk in the shadows of inattention. The light of awareness, however, dispels them all. “Everything good has awareness for its root.” -Bodhidharma Because awareness is free of disturbance, the […]
Only In Thought
A fishing boat off the coast of Vietnam. The fisherman spend their entire lives on their boats. “Our self—luminous, empty Awareness—knows no resistance and is, therefore, Peace itself.”-Rupert Spira Awareness is free of deception. To eliminate debilitating thoughts—like whenever you want something to not be how it is… Become aware of resistance thinking. If you […]
Withdraw
Me and Hot Sauce Davis visited this temple in Taiwan. “Withdraw into thoughtlessness and in this way give life to your mind.” -Chuang Tzu Randomly, pause into silence. Know you are breathing in, and exhale into silence. In your spare time, cultivate the silence in which, when a thought appears, it will be witnessed. In […]