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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!”

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”

Everything we see/hear/touch/taste/smell/think is an object, an object of consciousness. These objects include everything from a 50 ton whale to an atom viewed through an electron microscope. And the one we typically think of as “me” is also an object of consciousness. What You really are contains what you think you are. Do nothing exceptContinue reading “What You Really Are Can Never Be Found By Anyone”

I’ve mentioned before in other posts that all that is ever really experienced is thinking and sensation. No matter what it looks like, everything that we are ever experiencing is thought and sensation. The combination of these two elements is what we sometimes refer to as emotion (with sincere thanks to zen teacher Joko BeckContinue reading “It Is All a Story…Including This (Step 1)”

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”

Once upon a time a lovely and unremarkable spider, Theo (not poisonous, not mean-spirited, just your typical fly- and gnat-eating spider), sat in his web, thinking. Theo thought about lots of things, but mostly Theo thought about spider enlightenment. He had read many books written by other wise spiders who had realized their true nature.Continue reading “Theo’s Search for the Center”