Your Own Being
Inside… Outside… is there really any difference? “Each of us bears the memory of our true nature within us all the time. It shines in us as ‘I.’”-Rupert Spira What does not require time or thought to be known, to be directly experienced? It is the sense of being, the feeling that you are. Whenever […]
The Greatest Miracle
The Buddha and The Badness—twin aspects of the one reality. “The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase. If you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. Happy is he who forgets what cannot be changed.”-Mark Twain You cannot improve what you are unaware of. The advantage of being aware: when a thought appears, it […]
Remember
“All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence.”-Nisargadatta Maharaj Thinking creates personal reality. The next time you catch yourself wanting something to not be how it is, remember: We make it all up. A problem is a thought you care about. When you don’t care what you are thinking about, you […]
All You Need
I’lll be on the road tomorrow and computer-free… Check the link for “All You Need.”
In Your Spare Time
The Pink Jungle Bunnies… League Champs! “When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality.” -Adyashanti A way to inner peace and happiness is a total lack of resistance to any thought, feeling, or experience. You know resistance as desire; the desire for any thought, feeling, or experience […]
Pure Awareness
Me, Michele, and BabyJoni… Late 1976. “Thoughts may be agitated, feelings distressed, the body in pain and the world troubled, but pure knowing, being aware or awareness itself is never perturbed by anything that occurs in experience. Thus, its nature is peace itself.”-Rupert Spira Experience itself, without thought, is inherently pure. Witness this: Almost imperceptibly, […]
Escape
BE at 18 months. Thanks to DaddyO for saving these great old pics. When we’re deludedthere’s a world to escape to.When we’re awarethere’s nothing to escape. -Bodhidharma I’ve recently awoken to the beauty of my laptop’s escape button. A variety of temporary functions can be reversed or undone by clicking it, which efficiently returns me to […]
Listen
A gray fox can climb like a squirrel. “Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out of its way and […]
Awareness Delivers
1154 Chalet… The Enos Home… The Early Days ‘I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness […]
You Are Not…
That tricycle was mine when I was two. My dad kept it hanging in the rafters of his garage, and before he died he sent it to me. He taped blocks of wood to the pedals with electrical tape (so I could reach them), and the tape is still intact. It’s been on the bikeport […]