So, there’s awareness of a background against which everything bounces off – the good and the bad, the ideas, beliefs, struggle, ecstasy, magnificence, joy.
It feels
being buzzing vibrating
Over the last days something’s been cooking here. It’s been going on for some time now in different forms, shapes and words. But with my bike getting stolen in the middle of Covent Garden last Saturday afternoon it popped to another level.
To begin with, I would have refused to acknowledge the reality of the situation if they wouldn’t have left the cut cables which made the fact painfully clear in the very instant of our return. Retrospectively the following moments in slow motion revealed: At first there was a shock, disbelieve that “somebody would really do this”. Then pain, heartbreak over the loss. The thought of “they might have done it for some reason” popped up. Eventually rage flashed. At this point manipulation and control kicked in to calm the situation and avoid an irrational outburst in the middle of the street. I watched myself picking up the remains and making my way to the tube, silently and boiling on the inside. The body was shaking but numbed to what was really going on and busy with the little voice in the head feeding stuff about this all being no big deal. Read more »
by Spencer Barron
A talk by Adyashanti:
I want to start out here by sharing a story with you. Some years ago I was on the island of Maui and I was giving a talk and I was talking about truth and I was more specifically talking about how the truth really manifests in the context of life after awakening. And what I was saying was what would it be like if we didn’t avoid anything we knew to be true. What if we came out of hiding in all areas of our life, what if we stopped avoiding ourselves completely because that literally is the awakened life.
A great interview with Deepak Chopra on the Colbert Report. I was amazed at how Deepak manages to convey authentic mystical truths in such a fast-paced war of words. He’s is very present with Stephen.
Deepak Chopra on the Colbert Report
I was very impressed with this Robert Wright interview on The Bill Moyers Journal.
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Excerpt from an email from Paul Lowe to his list today.
The anger thing is so obvious – unless we do not want to know. If we do have the realisation, then all our conditioning about being justified about being angry at something outside our self is blown – and we have to be responsible – so we cannot partake in what most humans are addicted to: complaint. Our anger is our anger. Our anger has accumulated because we did not acknowledge it at the time. Often, especially in childhood, it is not ‘convenient’ – spelled trouble. So it has built up, and as it is poisonous to our system, the body is using any opportunity to let flow out.
Right now I have a slow-burning ember of presence glowing in my heart. It speaks. Or it simply is. And what it is is undeniable. It is the truth of each and every moment. It is ever-present, always available, now. It has all the right answers. It says “yes” or does not respond. It is quietly not allowing me to deny what is so clearly and evidently true in each and every moment. It is reliable. It does not suggest. It simply is. It is the harmony of all that is. Anything moving outside of harmonious flow is experienced as discord. It is simple. “Yes” is glorious, harmonious energy. I am surrendered.
What is typing this sentence is an amazing, mysterious, self-organizing community of atoms (an arbitrary label, it could just as easily be labelled molecules, subatomic particles or simply energy). Somehow this collection of atoms organizes itself into possibly one of the most sophisticated, self-reflective communities of atoms existing in the universe. Somehow, this collection of countless individual atoms cooperates together in a field that continues to pattern itself in relative continuity. Miraculously, an overall sense of a separate individual awareness arises amidst this collection of atoms. It feels like there is a “me” here. This “me” experiences itself as an autonomous, volitional entity. It seems like “I” have control over what I do. Read more »
Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 per cent
Of everything you think,
And of everything you do,
Is for yourself —
And there isn’t one.
— Wei Wu Wei
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