The idea, “Enlightenment is this,” or, “Liberation is that,” might make you feel significant or give you solidity and security, but what is it good for? It is only your best guess. Where will your ideas of enlightenment take you? Is it possible for you to cast aside all these ideas you’ve been handed?
The material presented here comes from the comments on the post, Is Relationship Based on Memory? This was originally posted around one year ago, and as I sit here now, have no memory of writing it. I can be fairly certain it is my writing, but there is no closeness or association that brings it [...]
There is a measure of thought that sees love or compassion as actions that have occurred or will occur. There is a measurement of more or less compassion, or more or less love. But is there more or less love, or only love? More or less compassion, or only compassion? What is the instrument making [...]
Is there time involved - becoming, getting better, and all of that - outside of the self? It might seem that way, but I am not interested in how things seem. Any growth within the self is limited to the desires, prejudices, and beliefs therein. Time may be part of the fuel mixture of that [...]
Question of the Week: 9/22 - 9/28
This great question comes from iamasimpleman on the short post, No Mystery. “I have read your words several times and the begin to touch my heart. But there is something against it which comes directly from my heart, anger. And this anger says, want to say, sit Takuin in a time machine to Ausschwitz and than let him talk to these people. I can tell you and send you to a thousand places in history.”
None of this is a mystery. The way the body functions from moment to moment, the thoughts that may or may not arise, the hair on your head falling into your face. Always as it is; never as it should be.
The only mystery is the one you have created. Outside of your ideas, where does [...]
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Wanting to become, hides the true essence of being.
One sees the apparent result; the ecstasy, the pure emptiness of liberation; and wants it completely. But can you know it before it comes? Can you have it when nothing can take it?
What can you do?
This natural expression of the organism is seen as [...]
As some of you have noticed already, there has been a bit of a change in this house. And I like it.
I won’t go into every little detail, but I will point out a few things.
There is a new function at the bottom of each post allowing you to subscribe to the comments without actually [...]
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I don’t really give exercises, and I do not prescribe fixes for illusory problems. But I thought it might be of some use to go into what is inquiry. This will be a relatively quick post, as we can go into it further in the comments and flesh it out from there.
For [...]
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I walk quite a bit. Perhaps, more than quite a bit. My rough estimation indicates a distance of 36 to 40 miles per week (or 58 to 64 kilometers). And those numbers continue to slowly grow over time.
These numbers are separate from the regular walking that takes place during one’s normal activities.
Why [...]