Category Archives: Ease & Letting Go

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”

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”

What we who have been ‘seekers’ have sought is the very thing that watches the seeking, that watches the stopping of seeking, that watches the frustration, the resignation, the eggs cooking, the Monday Night Football game, the dog sleeping, the stomach gurgling, the cold feet, the uncertainty, the bad money management, the opinions, the beliefs,Continue reading “Trust It”

Nothing needs to change in the circumstances or particulars of our lives to rest as peace. In fact, the more we attempt to manipulate and alter the particulars of our lives in order to experience peace, the further we will (seem to) move from what we want. What to do? Nothing. Relax. Give up. ReleaseContinue reading “Nothing Needs to Change”

Our opinions, our beliefs, our certainties, our stories, our memories, our worries and projections – all of these make up the bed of nails on which we lie. Give them space – it is the solvent that dissolves them along with any idea of ‘me’.

Look, it just doesn’t matter what kind of “stuff” comes floating into awareness. The “stuff” could be thoughts you might describe as beautiful or ugly or frightening or lovely or kind or…anything! The “stuff” could be sensations that are yummy or painful or weird or tingly or numb or…anything! It doesn’t matter what the “stuff”Continue reading “Leave “Stuff” Alone!”

Allow. If there was only one word to use as a pointer, this would be a pretty good one…Allow. Allow whatever is happening right now. Right now! Really. Don’t make this an intellectual exercise or, if you are, allow that. See whatever it is that is registering in sight and allow. Hear whatever sounds areContinue reading “Allow It All”