Author Archives: Vincent Flammini

If you really want to be done with the search, don’t read this as an intellectual exercise. Don’t read this as just another step on your way to “finally getting it.” Instead, right now, look directly at this very moment. Take your time and really look. Listen to sounds. See color, shape, and movement. SenseContinue reading “No Effort Needed”

This pathless path is not one of perfection. As has been written by countless others, there is nothing that you need to do to recognize who/what you really are. Nonetheless, many of us are addicted to the idea of spiritual progress or spiritual perfection. We have been taught to look at everything we do –Continue reading “Open the Door Even Wider”

Right now, in this moment, aren’t ‘you’ being? Right now, in this moment, look directly and answer this question: does it take any effort to be right now? Right. Absolutely everything else is a dead-end direction. There isn’t any more to IT than This. Rest.

Raj: I can feel or let me say, I know I am ‘aware’ only when I see things around (visible world). Without them I do not even know whether I am ‘present’ or ‘aware’ (like in deep sleep). So is it correct to say: my Awareness = the things around when I am in myContinue reading “Drop It All and Take a Walk – A Response to a Reader”

Raj: I can feel or let me say, I know I am ‘aware’ only when I see things around (visible world). Without them I do not even know whether I am ‘present’ or ‘aware’ (like in deep sleep). So is it correct to say: my Awareness = the things around when I am in myContinue reading “Drop It All and Take a Walk – A Response to a Reader”

The following is a letter from a reader (Tim) that addresses a fundamental misunderstanding. I hope this article helps to clarify it. Tim: I never wrote to you before – read your blog occasionally. One thing I’m surprised at though is the fact that you take anxiety meds – I would have expected realizing “theContinue reading “Better Living Through Chemistry”

I am sitting on my porch on a sleepy summer afternoon here in Springfield. I close my eyes and listen to the house wrens and cardinals calling to one another. Now and then my dog, Shadow, barks at a biker or another dog barking in the distance. A truck rumbles by on the street atContinue reading “Let Your Senses Point You Hone”

There has never been any emotion, any thought, any sensation, any situation, that has remained the same. Never. Look into your own direct experience right now – this isn’t some grand, esoteric teaching. Whatever you were thinking, feeling, or sensing when you began reading this paragraph has changed by now. That incessant, effervescing flow isContinue reading “The Futile Attempt to Change What Is Already Changing”

If you are going to read this as theory, as something ‘interesting,’ do yourself a favor and go to another website. I don’t intend this to be mean or exclusive. What I am saying is that if you are just reading this out of interest, you won’t find it that interesting. If you are readingContinue reading “When in Doubt”

There is not KNOWINGNESS and the OBJECT of knowingness. SEEING and SEEN arise together. Has there ever been SEEING without AWARENESS of the SEEN? Has there ever been HEARING without AWARENESS of the HEARD? Has there ever been THINKING without AWARENESS of the THOUGHT? Do you see what the seeming multiplicity share? Awareness is theContinue reading “Not Two”