Fragments

One Lin­ers

Enlight­en­ment, awak­en­ing, what­ever you want to call it, is not an achieve­ment, a get­ting, an attain­ing. It’s sim­ply; the com­plete col­lapse in the belief in the per­sonal self. The “now” negates this false self utterly.

Every­thing is the stuff of aware­ness. Pass­ing and chang­ing. But every­thing is unique to this body/mind and this moment. Right now all that is expresses itself in the only way it can within the Pres­ence you are. There is no other life but this. You are it. Noth­ing ever to seek. It is all here now.

Peo­ple need gods they can believe and a real­ity they can negate.

Some­times we just need to let the tears and love com­bine and dis­cover the alchemy that arises in that mag­i­cal moment.

What you feel craves the energy to be felt.

One day, when fear was young, he went out into the world and said “I need a pub­lic rela­tions direc­tor” … on that day fear gave birth to God.

Noth­ing defines us. Only fear (the fear of being noth­ing) seeks a def­i­n­i­tion, a place to call his own.

I have often thought there is only one sin: Impa­tience. From impa­tience all human suf­fer­ing flows. This is a truth so pro­found and so com­pelling that it qual­i­fies as the only essen­tial teaching.

Notice how, in each moment, a new per­sonal iden­tity is formed. This is how the false self sus­tains its existence.

You are here now. There is no one or noth­ing else here but you.

The world can be no other way than what it is right now. So thank good­ness for pain, for with­out it, we would have already died for fail­ing to notice it.

Stop “out­sourc­ing” your respon­si­bil­ity for the world being as it is. Instead, start own­ing it all. After all, what­ever you don’t own, owns YOU.

(From Chuck Hillig)
Some­day you’re going to ask your­self why you reject who you are and want to be some­body else.

Explore most deeply those “spir­i­tual truths” that most appeal to your fears.

The body and the mind con­jure the mir­a­cle of exis­tence on all of its many lev­els and unsto­ried wit­ness is the mys­tery that engulfs it all.

Any­time you’re in a rush, notice that. Also notice that when you’re in a rush, every­one is your enemy

 

Every­thing you hear, see, touch, taste, feel and every­where you are is the Buddha.

Your life hap­pens only once: now.

Right now, all of the uni­verse finds unity in you.

You are the uni­verse, even if you think you’re not.

Every­thing leaves a track: con­sider the tracks left by your neglect … your invalidation.

Noth­ing in this life is free: con­sider the cost of every­thing that comes into your life.

Nuggets

Peo­ple always seems to be seek­ing answers from oth­ers. Do your own explo­rations. Inves­ti­gate. Find out what is really true. Ques­tion every­thing. If you give away your own direct author­ity, then you cul­ti­vate your own depen­den­cies, addic­tions, and help­less­ness. The fact is, that truth only resides within you. No one can give it to you.

That which we refer to as “we” is sep­a­ra­tion in its essence. I am not you and you are not me. We are innately sep­a­rate. And thus the dialec­tic of con­stant change just moves as it does — mov­ing you and me around the pivot of life. We are ALREADY united as one on the lev­els of source, con­nec­tion, and aware­ness. This is not a future event. It is now. If it isn’t now, then it can never be.

It is not pos­si­ble to “improve” peo­ple. What peo­ple do is all just part of the human expe­ri­ence. We do what we do. If we stop iso­lat­ing and sep­a­rat­ing what we project as “bad” from what we project as “good” then the full pic­tures emerges and we are That.

What if every­thing in the world were as con­scious, as aware as you? How might that effect your sense of imme­di­ate expe­ri­ence the next time you bite into a ham­burger … or even a car­rot? What if the air had the same sense of being­ness as you? Wouldn’t this change every­thing? I can’t imag­ine a more rad­i­cal or lib­er­at­ing pos­si­bil­ity. Start­ing right now, go about your day and act on the pos­si­bil­ity that is true. Every­thing is alive. Every­thing is con­scious. Every­thing is aware … as alive, as aware, as con­scious are you yourself.

Our body is the earth. Our thoughts are the clouds. Aware­ness is the light that sees and unites them as One.

Thought is a shadow. As inex­orable as any shadow. But illu­sion is believ­ing we are, exclu­sively, the shadow. Belief can have it no other way for it too is thought and can know only the shadow as itself. But we are not only the shadow, but the light that sees the shadow and knows that it is both.

Con­sider this. All of this talk about enlight­en­ment and awak­en­ing. Let’s turn our atten­tion around. What or who is it that is seek­ing? You gotta fig­ure that one out first. Ask your­self who is seek­ing?  Over­time you will dis­cover that it is an “iden­tity” that is seek­ing. It’s a par­tic­u­larly sticky iden­tity because it is with that thought clus­ter with which you iden­tify as who you are. But that is false. But the more you look, the more you ques­tion, you will even­tu­ally dis­cover that it’s just a belief, like any other belief, except that this one seems more pow­er­ful. Then ask your­self this: WHY is this par­tic­u­lar thought clus­ter more pow­er­ful than oth­ers? That ques­tion will return you to your per­sonal iden­tity. It’s a loop. The more you watch the loop, the power it has over you will begin to wane. And here’s the out­come. Are you ready? You will CEASE need­ing to be any­one. You will see through all iden­ti­ties. You will shed your­self of any psy­cho­log­i­cal iden­tity. That’s why I keep on say­ing I DON’T CARE!!!!! I really don’t have a psy­cho­log­i­cal iden­tity that I need to defend, but more impor­tantly, I don’t need a new and bet­ter and enight­ened iden­tity to put on and show the world and myself. That strug­gle to be some­thing or some­one is ended and it’s ended for good.

The Bud­dha said that nir­vana is the ces­sa­tion of desire. When you stop need­ing to be any­one, you no longer have any desire to be some­thing or some­one. That is the way.

Any­one who sells hope, tran­quil­ity, or tran­scen­dence is a huck­ster — either in self denial or down­right snake oil sales. A free per­son nei­ther sells nor buys. She is who she is and makes no apolo­gies for that. She doesn’t need hope, tran­quil­ity, or tran­scen­dence. She is alive right now, right here in what­ever form that takes.