Author Archives: Vincent Flammini

M: Hi! My name is Michele; I am so happy you have started a blog and shared your insights. I have been reading your posts for a couple of months, following the link from Annette’s site. V: Annette was a HUGE help to me. M: I decided to put myself at the keyboard this morningContinue reading “Is Awareness Chronically Shy?”

Helma: I’d like everything to be totally clear. No residues in believing things that aren’t true. No more lies to be believed in. It’s like I won’t rest before everything is seen for what it is. V: Might I suggest that belief is completely unnecessary? Forget belief completely. This is a completely existential understanding –Continue reading “Much Ado About Nothing”

Sometimes, people ask what Awareness is. Hmmm. How do we describe what is essentially indescribable? How do we describe the eye to the eye? How do we describe water to the fish? The ocean to the wave? Air to the breeze? How does thought describe Awareness to thought with more thought? You know the answer.Continue reading “Thinking It Is Not It”

Once upon a time there was small bee enjoying the flowers and trees and summer breeze. In his bee-meanderings, he flew into a house…and could not find his way out! He flew everywhere he could attempting to find a way out. He flew through the kitchen, the fruit bowl, in and out of clothes-filled closets.Continue reading “Just Bee Awareness”

You will not wake up tomorrow. Sorry and congratulations. First, of course, there is no “you” to be awake. I don’t want to belabor this because I know everyone talks about this and many have described it far better than I. However, because it is so important (important in the sense that, once seen, you’llContinue reading “Bad News: You Will Not Wake Up Tomorrow…Good News: You Will Not Wake Up Tomorrow”

Your default setting is wisdom and peace. The only thing that ever covers over your experience of spaciousness and peace, in any moment, is believed thought. You don’t need to do anything to become what you already are. It is only thinking that suggests otherwise. Don’t believe it. Just leave it alone. It will pass.Continue reading “Simple”

All that is ever happening is this: Thoughts and Sensations (seeing, smelling, hearing, touching, tasting) arise within Awareness (what we refer to as emotion is a combination of thought and sensation). All thoughts and sensations change constantly; awareness of the changing thoughts and sensations remains regardless of change. Awareness of changing thoughts and sensations (or awareness of not being aware ofContinue reading “Even Simpler”

Please stop trying to find anything more, at least, for this moment. Through the open window a soft, warm, wet breeze smells green of wood, moss, decay. A cricket chirps. A television in the distance. Rain water drips from a sycamore leaf. Thoughts, smells, sounds come and go. No work or practice or technique is necessaryContinue reading “Just a Moment – Please.”

I was driving in the country the other day and it came to me that the drive was very much like the journey of the search. At first, it is clear that I am driving. I feel distinct, definite, separate. There is clearly a “me” doing the driving. I look around and see the carContinue reading “Keep Driving”