Category Archives: Ease & Letting Go

This “awakening from the dream” is really a very gentle happening (or non-happening). It is simply a recognition of what has been SEEING everything all along, and recognizing that the SEEING is what you are. Everything seen – absolutely everything – including these ideas about seeing – are more dream images arising in you. Trees,Continue reading “It’s Very Gentle”

I wanted to end seeking. People who had come to an end suggested that there was nothing I needed to do. They said, Do Nothing. Thought interrupts and asks, “What do you mean, do nothing?” Thought is itself, a doing. Even the thought, “OK, I get it. I’ll do nothing,” is doing. Then the thoughtContinue reading “Do Nothing – Or Less”

VF: Hi Ron. Good to hear from you again. Let’s clear this up so you can get on with things! Ron: I am fully clear in my head that, as you put it, “thought” is not necessary to know ‘I exist”. I can also see that ‘sensations’ coalesce to produce the body and the sensationsContinue reading “Quit Playing and Run Home to Your Mother”

VF: Hello Sam – good hearing from you again. I’m sorry this response is so late in coming, but I haven’t had much of a chance to do anything other than my “paid” work recently. Sam: Thank you for your prompt and generous response.What I get from your reply is that the endless flounderings ofContinue reading “You Can’t Drain the Water from a Mirage”

Imagine that whatever you are looking for – let’s call it ‘The Answer’ – is in the middle of a toy snow globe (you know, a clear glass globe with some sort of picture or figure in the middle and filled with tiny, white flakes). Now, imagine that thoughts and experiences, all objects, are likeContinue reading “Put the Snow Globe Down”

There is nothing that needs to be done about “the world.” The world is a concept. It arises in this present awareness as various combinations of sensation (read “sensing”) and thought. Look into your immediate experience. Can you find “a world” anywhere other than in this present awareness? There is no world – there areContinue reading “There Is Nothing to Be Done, and Yet…”

I frequently get email questions from people who read the blog. I really appreciate the questions; they are a great help in clarifying what is written. I also hear in many of the emails a great deal of frustration and efforting and pushing to “figure it out.” What I came to see, thanks to soContinue reading “Space: The Antidote”

Nothing needs to be done to simply rest as the awareness that You are. No practices are needed. No special breathing. No need to sit in the lotus posture. No more books to read. No more talks to attend. No more weekend workshops and trainings are necessary. No particular geographical location is more auspicious thanContinue reading “Nothing Needs to Be Done”

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”