The Heart Sutra is such a great story. It’s from a long time ago so we’re missing a whole lot of the details of exactly what happened. But in essence the bodhisattva wakes up. A sudden awakening and after, apparently it seems, years of studying. It seemed to be a practice of straining to get …
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Come To Me
Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden. Come to me and I will give you rest.
Not Two Doesn’t Make Sense
Non-duality means not two. “Not two” doesn’t mean “one.” The problem with the idea of one is that one is a thing. Even if you are imagining a vast oneness of all you can still see it in your imagination. You can think about it. You can get fixated on it. What we’re trying to …
The Trick is to Keep Things Simple
All in all the biggest trick is to keep things simple. When you look around at the world it can be so complicated! Everyone is running around running around like mad. A cat can just sit there. A dog can just sit there. People are always doing. The more we keep it simple the better …
Sufi Mysticism Frees the Mind
Sufi mysticism is about what happens when the mind becomes unhitched from the human being. So you are free and no longer held captive by ideas. Then poetry happens.
A Thought is a Thought
Illusion happens when you don’t see a thought as a thought, or an emotion as an emotion. Instead you get sucked into a vortex of importance. You give them a name and a power: My thought. My emotions. The emotion isn’t you. The thought isn’t you. Any more than your hair isn’t isn’t you. If …
Newsletter: Short is Good
Published: Sat, 06/10/23 Short is Good I was really busy this week so I was sort-of embarrassed to start putting the newsletter together this morning. For my Youtube videos I had to grab little awkward moments inside the rush. I thought the content I was producing was really lame. But now that I’m putting together this …
Stepping out of the Fog
It’s a joy to step out of the fog of consumerism. These days, with global warming and pollution, it is easy to think that consuming things, buying things, is the biggest problem for the environment. But the biggest problem is the fact that we’re all consumers of life. We are consumers of happiness, consumers of …