Category Archives: Working with Your Mind

Give up. This body never had a chance. Born in the deepest ocean, it began sinking before its first breath. Stop thrashing. Sink. Breathe in what you fear. The water will dissolve what you never were, leaving only Love.

You mistake yourself for the sun but are Space; You mistake yourself for the wave but are Ocean; You mistake yourself for a body but are Being; You mistake yourself for alive but are Never Born; You mistake yourself for a seeker but are the Sought; You mistake yourself for a student but are Knowing;Continue reading “Mistakes (In no particular order)”

The following is an email exchange from a reader. To the sender of the question: I am sorry I was not able to respond to you privately via email, but the comment you left was anonymous. I hope this at least begins to address your question. (Matthew): Nice post, Vince, but let me challenge youContinue reading “What IS The Point”

The point is Love. As long as we remain caught in the fiction of separation, there is fear and defending and attacking to maintain the form – and there are countless forms: people and dogs and nations and ideals and philosophies and theories and property and mine and yours and certainty and right and wrongContinue reading “What IS the Point? Part II”

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”

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”

Awareness is inseparable from phenomena and phenomena are inseparable from awareness – they are different aspects of Being. There is no need to change anything that arises. Take refuge in Awareness. Awareness is always present. Rest there. Regardless of what is happening, we are what Sees it. We can either rest as the Seeing orContinue reading “Some Random Pointers”

Any instruction other than to leave everything alone, to relax, to just rest as you are, is dangerous. It is dangerous because it points us back into the shadow realm of thought, technique, manipulation, alteration, effort, and theory. The good news is that the very shining awareness that we are is the source and substanceContinue reading “Danger – sort of”

All of your suffering is your fault. All of my suffering is my fault. It isn’t our mother’s fault or the fault of our teacher or boss or spouse or partner or dog or genes or the president or the economy or the weather.  Our suffering has nothing to do with our income, our education,Continue reading “It’s All Your Fault – and That’s the Good News”