Life, Revealed

All things fully experienced reveal their opposite. Grief fully experienced reveals the depth of love, and love fully experienced reveals the inevitability of loss. When the rubber hits the road, when Life rolls, all is revealed.

And it is very fine.

Being, Awake Pt 6

...When you’re living in your awakened being and living in an awakened way, power on any level is not an issue for you. It’s not interesting. The power to control another human being is not interesting. Intellectual power is not interesting. The power to control yourself is not interesting. The power that people want to give you is not interesting to you—not because it shouldn’t be; it’s just not. What would you want to do with it? You see that there’s nothing you want to do with it.

You realize, in the truth of your being, that you are the totality itself, but you have no interest whatsoever in doing anything with that knowledge, with using that knowledge...

Adyashanti

Question Everything...

...especially those things you've been told never to question, until you see there's nothing you need to know anyway. Then have a good laugh about it, and get on with living:)

We only believe that of which we're uncertain. That which we know renders belief irrelevant. The only useful question to ask of anything is, what is true here? Not what we believe, or have been told, or have read, or fondly wish, imagine to be true, but what is beyond all doubt.

I find the only thing I'm certain of is, I Am. And that depends on what 'I' mean by 'I', of course;)

Stories We Tell Ourselves

Just as you have chosen to personify pure love as the character you call God, so have you chosen to personify abject fear as the character you call the devil.

Some on Earth have established rather elaborate mythologies around this event, complete with scenarios of battles and war, angelic soldiers and devilish warriors, the forces of good and evil, of light and dark.

This mythology has been mankind's early attempt to understand, and tell others in a way they could understand, a cosmic occurrence of which the human soul is deeply aware, but of which the mind can barely conceive.

Neale Walsch

I Am That

"There is a Reality which is Indivisible, One, Alone, the Source and Being of all; not a thing, nor even a mind, but pure Spirit or clear Consciousness; and we are That and nothing but That, for That is our true Nature; and the only way to find It is to look steadily within, where are to be found utmost peace, unfading joy, and eternal life itself."

From Religions of the World by Douglas Harding

Being, Awake Pt 5

...It’s a curious life you find yourself in. You find yourself… where you are. Not where I am, where you are. Where you really are. Where we really are. It’s a curious place to be (especially in the beginning), not to be driven by anything—pleasure or displeasure, helping or hurting, loving or hating. The only thing that will move you (and I don’t mean to be too poetic about this) is the same thing that moves a leaf hanging from a tree. It’s simply because the breeze blows that way. So you always know to do: The breeze blows that way, and that’s the way you go. You don’t ask questions any more. You don’t evaluate why the breeze is blowing that way because you know that you don’t know why. And you know you can’t know why. There’s never been a leaf anywhere that knows why the wind blows that way on that day at that moment. That breeze changes the orientation of your life, moment to moment to moment, simply because that’s the way life’s moving. And when you’re living in your awakened self you have no argument with the way it’s moving because it's the same as you are...

Adyashanti

No Comment

I've frequently been called an atheist. This is by way of clarification of my position...

"Tell me," said the atheist, "Is there a God — really?"
Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest with you, I will not answer."
Later the disciples demanded to know why he had not answered.
"Because the question is unanswerable," said the Master.
"So you are an atheist?"
"Certainly not. The atheist makes the mistake of denying that of which nothing may be said... and the theist makes the mistake of affirming it."

Anthony de Mello

I'm glad to have cleared that up;)

Being, Awake Pt 4

...The truth of your being doesn’t crave happiness; it couldn’t actually care less. It doesn’t crave love, not because you are so full of love, but because it just doesn’t crave love. It’s very simple. It doesn’t seek to be known, regarded highly, or understood. When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, there’s no ideal for you any more. You’ve stepped off the entire cycle of suffering, of becoming; you’re not interested...

Adyashanti

Being, Awake Pt 3

...When everyone is saying, “I hope that happens to me,” you remember when you did that. You remember that you didn’t find a solution to that. You remember that the whole idea that there was a problem created all of that.

When you’re being what you are, when you’re living the awakened life, there’s nobody to forgive, because there’s no resentment held, no matter what...

Adyashanti

Night Wanderings

Born out of the wordless Word, words crawl, walk, run, take flight, gambol playfully, joyfully. Toying with Truth, they can never grasp it, but only gaze in awe and wonder.

Silence births cosmic laughter.

Stillness births action.

Emptiness births fullness.

Infinity and Eternity birth spacetime.

No-thing births all things.

That which can never be perceived births all perception.

And That knows Its Self through all It gives birth to, rejoicing in Its offspring.

Being, Awake Pt 2

...When everybody around you has a whole host of ideas and beliefs about a whole variety of things, you don’t. Everyone on the path is getting there; you haven’t gotten anywhere. Everyone is climbing the mountain; you’re selling hiking boots and picks at the foot in the hope that if they climb it and come back down, they may be too exhausted to do it again. When everybody else is looking to the next book, to the next teacher, to the next guru to be told what’s real, to be given the secret key to an awakened life, you’re not. You don’t have a key because there’s no lock to put it in.

When you’re living what you are in an awakened way, being simply what you’ve always been, you’re actually very simple. You basically sit around wondering what all the fuss is about...

Adyashanti

to be continued...

Nothink

Granite cliffs are as the morning mist compared to the solidity of human belief systems, for which many will lie, cheat, steal, kill and die, out of fear of...

...thought, the hardest non-substance in the Universe.

This doesn't appear to work very well.

Just saying:)

Being, Awake

While the world is trying to solve its problems and everyone around you is engaged in the same, you’re not. 

While everybody around you is trying to figure it out, trying to arrive, trying to “get there,” trying to be worthy, you’re not. 

While everyone thinks that awakening is a grand, noble, halo-enshrouded thing, for you it’s not. 

While everybody is running from this life right now, in this moment, to try to get there, you’re not. 

Where everybody has an argument with somebody else, mostly everybody else, starting with themselves, you don’t. 

Where everybody is so sure that happiness will come when something is different to what it is now, you know that it won’t. 

While everybody is looking to achieve the perfect state and hold on to it, you’re not...

Adyashanti

...to be continued

No Self-Esteem

I notice I'm becoming more and more irrelevant to myself. And boy, does it feel good!:)