Recent Writing
Mind Openness
Once we have allowed ourselves to recognise the reality of the "looker" (what is perceiving these words right now), recognised this as our true self, and, without effort, allowed ourselves to become self-aware, this aware presence will effortlessly come to the fore in our experience.
Self Enquiry
Without question, the mind assumes that because what appears through its senses is localised, what knows of these perceptions is also localised. Without question, the mind believes that because what appears through its senses is limited in time and space, what knows of these perceptions is also limited.
What Is Real?
If we ask ourselves, "What am I really?" — which is another way of asking, "Do I exist?" — what experience enables us to know we are real?
Non-dualist Unity In The Face of Dualistic Division
I love this quote from the 13th-century Buddhist sage Nichiren Daishonin, a teacher of a non-dualistic form of Buddhism.
"An individual at odds with himself will not achieve anything because his heart is not dedicated to a single purpose.” [Nichiren Daishonin Gosho p. 1389)
The Movie Of Time and Space
The hidden belief of being a separate self shows up in the mind and body in the form of fearful misidentification, feeling separate and thoughts of lack and personal desire that indicate separateness.
Keep It Simple
Why wouldn't a mind and body awaken and be at peace because we are knowingly at one with all existence? In this experience of Oneness, the boundaries between our mental and sensorial existence and the world disappear.
De-Throning The False King
There are no practices to be at one with and experience the aware reality we are, only to open the mind that blocks this understanding. Sometimes called true self (Advaita Vedanta-like) or no self (Zen-like) or heart (Sufi-like), or God's Being (Christian Mystic-like), depending on tradition. The important thing is that the experience is the same.
No Coincidence
What the most important social policy beyond all else that is recommended by spiritual leaders the world over throughout time? The universal number 1 priority and conclusion is world peace and all this entails. Nearly all spiritual leaders have made public pronouncements on this. So what is wise? PEACE! Always peace.
There Is Such A Thing As Society
Many spiritual teachers emphasise that society begins with individual behaviour and that this inner revolution needs to be the focus. On an experiential level, the world is considered a school. It's not about making the world perfect, and facing challenges is something that, as consciousness, we have created for our mind and body to get through somehow, as they are essential vehicles for us to achieve strength and express ourselves like forging iron rids it of impurities. These challenges help us become even stronger examples to our society of the life-affirming qualities of consciousness.
Aware Being
If we examine our experience at this moment, we will find that phenomena appear and disappear, but there is always something that never appears or disappears. This is the reality of all temporary phenomena that is the always present elusive something, not nothing. It is the essence of everything; unlike the appearances of the mind that come and go, it never does.
The Metaphorical Pattern Matching Mind
In studying Human Givens psychotherapy, which was revelatory in many respects, I learned the full honorific title for the mind. "The Metaphorical Pattern Matching Mind ". We have a mind that learns through the recognition of patterns.