There is no essence anywhere.
2007-06-24
Awareness sees them both
Success and failure are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Smart and stupid are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Awake and asleep are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Good and evil are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Noble and base are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Strong and weak are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Industrious and lazy are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Bitter and sweet are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Pleasure and pain are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Attraction and aversion are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Real and imaginary are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Bondage and liberation are I dentification
Awareness sees them both
Everything arises in Awareness, is seen, and passes away
Awareness allows everything, without resistance or clinging
Nothing sticks
There is no such thing as Awareness
Coercion is a concept. It has never happened outside of a mind.
"Me" is a concept. It can't be forced to do anything.
"Do it" is a concept. It has never happened outside of a mind.
"The quarks made me do it?" That's a laugh!
2007-06-23
I overlook the treasure in front of me.
Noticing what is right now
Satisfaction appears spontaneously.
2007-06-22
2007-06-19
soundless
imageless
odorless
untouchable
imperceptible
unthinkable
unfeelable
yet present to taste, hear, see, smell, touch, think, feel
that's what I am
that's what is ...
... what is tasted, heard, seen, smelled, touched, thought, felt
had it. Or wishing to not have something I do. In either case, desire
is always for an imaginary situation, one that does not exist right now.
me, you, them, my stuff, your stuff, wants, needs, hopes, fears,
grudges, worries, anxiety, what I "can't wait" to do, what I'm
dreading, boredom, excitement, whether I'm happy, whether I'm
comfortable, whether there's an "I", blah, blah, blah.
No need to get rid of the thought, just the distraction.
2007-06-18
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all,
And in the darkness bind them,
In the land of Mordor
Where the shadows lie.
- J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Ring
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One Self to love it all,
One Self to see it,
One Self to bring it forth,
And in the light to be it,
In the space of clarity
Where it all is seen.
- Self, another story
2007-06-17
The only place anything happens is here.
Satisfaction, despair, gratitude, excitement, fear, sadness, joy,
thinking, acting, perceiving only happen in this moment, in this
place. Where else is there for it to be?
Be here now. There is no other possibility.
2007-06-14
something real. I can't be attached to what's real because it's what
I already am.
2007-06-12
Watch thoughts come and go.
Watch emotions rise and subside.
Watch sensation flicker in and out of awareness.
Watch what happens "out there".
Watch "me" appear and disappear.
Watch belief happen and pass.
Just watch.
2007-06-10
Watch thoughts come and go.
Watch emotions rise and subside.
Watch sensation flicker in and out of awareness.
Watch what happens "out there".
Watch the body do this and that.
Watch "me" appear and disappear.
Watch belief happen and pass.
Just watch.
2007-06-07
2007-06-04
There is no alternative method to corroborate observation. The only way to get corroborating information is through another observation. How can we know that both observations are not mistaken or incorrect?
Thus, there is no way to prove that observation is a valid method.
Mental objects appear and disappear automatically. Nothing can be done to control them.
That which observes objects is not itself an object, so there is no evidence that it exists.
All that can be done, all that has ever been done, is to watch the objects come and go.
Feelings are just more objects, coming and going. They will arise and pass as they are "supposed" to. Nothing can be done to control them either.
If happiness, satisfaction, gratitude, joy, peace are supposed to arise, they will. If not, they won't.
There is nothing "I" can do.