Excerpts: There is Something Else… Our minds have been programmed in such a way that we don’t realise that we are always looking through our programming. It is like wearing pink coloured glasses – when we look out everything we see is tinted pink. We don’t know how to look out without looking through the …
I have often been asked: what is Enlightenment, and am I Enlightened. I have no real idea about what is Enlightenment. I seem to have more ideas of what it is not. At one time I did investigate the phenomenon, and I didn’t come up with anything substantial. In the Buddhist tradition, which seems to …
“Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If you put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water; shit it becomes shit water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem.” Zen Master Seung Sahn
Hi Love You say happiness is not so important for you. I go for that level that I feel is under the one you are focussing on – to where we are all in the state beyond seriousness and struggle. I have been noticing that with myself lately not interested in people’s struggle. To me …
It could be that – the moment of death is the the most important moment of our lives. (But then – it is too late.) Another view is that every moment is the most important. As I remember it, in the Tibetan Book of the Dead it is said that the very last moment of …
How to get free? In addition to unconditional awareness in each moment, and every moment awareness of posture, gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice, what you are saying, and what you are thinking – you need to change everything. Ev-er-ry-thing! How? Exaggerate. If you normally speak quietly, either speak even quieter – OR SHOUT! And …
Visiting recently, a friend I have known for many years. Lovely, intelligent, sincere, and caring being. And, even after many years, searching in every way, same flatness – of body posture, gestures, facial expressions, voice, words. Considering what an exceptionally intelligent person, this is amazing. (And, no longer my business/responsibility.) This behaviour is not unusual …