Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown. – Ramana Maharshi We desire meaning and fear disorder. We want to live in an orderly world that we can understand. We want […]
“Existential angst” is a term coined by existential philosophers. I see it as an all-pervading anxiety that comes at us from everywhere and nowhere. It’s different from our fight-flight-freeze-fawn response, which is necessary for survival and comes and goes depending […]
“Be with your experience in a spirit of questioning, in a spirit of intelligent investigation, not analysis… You just need to let yourself access it. Notice it. Because the full range of the spectrum is already intrinsically present. Realisation is […]
What’s your present experience? Who’s the experiencer? What observes both the experience and the experiencer? What is aware of the observer? We usually search for what we most deeply desire within the impermanent appearances of life: within thoughts, states, feelings, […]
It’s easy to get caught up in the ideas of what’s possible and what’s not. We habitually get stuck inside the confines of our own minds and our conditioned expectations. But when we take time to allow ourselves to be […]
Life is one in essence. It is both darkness and light, wind and water, and dawn and night. All things share the same nature, but we call them different names. In its light, I face the dawn. In its shadows, […]
‘You don’t need to suffer anymore. You’ve suffered enough to take you to this point where you hear the words, “You don’t need to suffer anymore,” and you understand them. You recognize their truth and you then see that you […]
It’s not uncommon to live in denial of pain and suffering and to avoid looking at our shadows. As we awaken, we will likely encounter resistance to conditioned patterns of desire and fear. But when they arise, we can meet, […]
“The way of water has no beginning and no end. The sea is around you and in you. The sea is your home before your birth and after your death. The sea gives, and the sea takes. Water connects all […]
“The entirety of practical spirituality consists of distinguishing fantasy from actuality. The spiritual problem consists of not being able to distinguish fantasy from actuality… It’s not that fantasy is bad, it’s not that fantasy is wrong, and it’s not that […]
