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Pain, the Old Friend

December 2, 2008 8 comments

Some 17 years ago I was involved in a rather bad car accident, and a certain back injury re-occurs at irregular intervals because of it. Now is one of those irregular intervals. It is very difficult to get around at the moment, and pain is a constant companion. But it is interesting to sit with [...]

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Do You Know?

November 27, 2008 4 comments

It is not enough to say that you know it. Knowing is very solid and permanent. It is always the same, although the contents may shift around a bit. Belief in the knowing is the personification of security. But knowing is completely impotent in the presence of being. Knowledge cannot touch it, cannot move it [...]

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What Do I Know?

November 26, 2008 6 comments

If I know enlightenment; the stored up ideas, the rights and the wrongs, the yes’s and the no’s; and I have it all at my fingertips ready to fire like a bullet, then what the hell am I doing? “I am a being that knows all about enlightenment, and I am the fire that will [...]

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I Can’t

November 25, 2008 2 comments

“I have seen this liberation, but I can’t do it!” That may be true, but do not despair. This is still seen from the point of view of one that must do something about it. Now, if you can’t do it, what happens? If there is absolutely nothing that can be done, what happens? Not [...]

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To Inquire

November 24, 2008 3 comments

With inquiry, there is no assumption of right or wrong. Questions are not meant to be hit with quick responses. It must be dealt with in a deeper way. So regardless of how you approach the answer, you must be prepared to accept that what you might have always thought, or believed to be true, [...]

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