You Are
Artist: JJ Horner. “The One who remains after the imagination disappears, is the Self.”-Siddharameshwar Maharaj By adding names to pure experience, the mind imagines. Which, on a practical level, is endlessly creative. A list of technical advancements in the last thirty years alone would be limitless. On a personal level, however, imagining yourself to be […]
The Miracle
Me and Robbie… 1988, Bianchi Cup man-on-man shootoff. “People cherish the distinctions of purity and impurity; but in the nature of things, there is no such distinction, except as it arises from false and absurd images in their mind.”-Buddha I received this comment regarding that quote: “I struggle with this. Someone deceives you and rips you […]
Be Aware Of…
1988 for sure, probably the Masters. “Awareness becomes consciousness when it has an object. The object changes all the time. In consciousness there is movement; Awareness by Itself is motionless and timeless, here and now.”-Nisargadatta Maharaj In the body, pure awareness becomes consciousness: you see an object; you hear a sound; you recognize a thought, […]
The Real You
“To know what you are doing is the most important thing.” -Shunryu Suzuki In Shunryu’s classic, subtle style, he hints at the profound with a simple sentence. It’s the “real I”—pure awareness—that knows the body, knows what you are doing. This is immediately restorative: Sit quietly for a few moments and include your body in whatever […]
The One Who Knows
Ajahn Chah. He looks like he has definitely got it figured out. “Normally the mind isn’t still, it’s moving all the time. We must strengthen the mind. Making the mind strong and making the body strong are not the same. To make the body strong we have to exercise it, to push it, in order […]
Remember To
In a private conversation with actor Terrance Stamp, Krishnamurti said:“What you are… what you actually are, is being. Being is not the mindthinking. Thinking is a movement, a motion. Being is the silence thatprecedes the motion. You cannot see it; you cannot grasp it because youare it. The feeling that you are. The unadorned naked […]
What You Need
“What you need is to be aware of being aware.”-Nisargadatta Maharaj An extremely subtle message is hidden in that statement. “To be aware of being aware” is to be aware of what you actually are: Awareness itself. But the subtle part … it isn’t “two”—there is not “someone” that is aware of “another” awareness. To […]
I
Check out this loser. “Watch yourself closely and you will see that whatever be the content of consciousness, the witnessing of it does not depend on the content. Awareness is itself and does not change with the event. The event may be pleasant of unpleasant, minor or important, awareness is the same. Take note of […]
Don’t Know
How’s it going? When asked: “What is implied by “’seeing into the Real Nature’”? Huang Po replied: “That Nature and your perception of it are one. Let me repeat that the perceived [the body] cannot perceive.” It’s not that the body does not perceive. It is that the body is not the perceiver. Then who […]
Who’s There?
Hello… Who’s there? “Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”-Chuang Tzu We make it all up. Living is like navigating a parking garage. The ramps you go “up,” to enter, take you “down” to exit. Similarly, every idea you […]