Find Something New
The early days, April, 2002, of BE.com. “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld When you no longer care how something is, it ceases to be a problem. Make it a secret goal to, each day, find a new thing to be okay […]
The Way Out
“What is it that is silent? Look into it by examining awareness.” -Krishnamurti A rarity, from Krishnamurti… In that he hints at our true nature, or, what we actually are. Without comparing, awareness knows. Therefore all the mind diseases produced by comparing, such as desire, regret, and resistance to any experience, are absent in awareness. It […]
Get Real Quiet And…
Thomas, chatting up the King of Slab City. “That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging. “That inner Self, as the primeval spirit, eternal, ever effulgent, full and infinite Bliss, single, indivisible, whole and living, shines in everyone as the witnessing awareness.” -Ramana Maharshi In […]
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 […]
All That Is Known
No doubt about it, this guy has it figured out. “All that is known is the knowing of experience, and we are that knowing.” -Rupert Spira Pick one that works for you, and as needed, pause into it… Be still, and know that you are. Be silently aware of your own being. Pause into silence. In […]
We Are That
BE and Hot Sauce Davis under an island off the coast of Vietnam. “Knowledge and experience always change; knowing or being aware never changes.” -Rupert Spira We are that peaceful knowing. Find in experience what never changes: it is the awareness of experience itself. Be the calm witness to the knowing of presence. ====Be still, […]
Find In You
Me and Hot Sauce Davis partying with the locals in Taiwan. “Know that you are really the Infinite, Pure Being, the Self Absolute. You are always that Self and nothing but that Self.” -Ramana Maharshi The mind is like a lizard on the trunk of prickly pear: literally invisible until it moves. The movement appears […]