I’m a support worker in adult social care with an open-ended curiosity in the nature of mind.
Sitting in silent stillness… Consider for a moment what on earth does that do or give you that sitting in a traffic jam in the middle of noisy roadworks on a hot day does not?
If you actually attend to the actuality of the present moment, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, there is essentially no difference – just a variation in phenomenal experience.
There is an exquisite tension at the heart of every moment,
Of knowing and unknowing,
Of letting go and holding on,
Of doing and being,
Of creating and destroying,
Of allowing and resisting,
Continuous wave and separate particle,
As it all collapses into its own disappearance,
And begins all over again
Why do anything?
To see what happens.
Why do nothing?
To see what happens.
Out of nowhere comes the willingness to act…
We happen. Our aliveness simply occurs and we are the totality of that occurring.
All the great spiritual teachings ultimately point to a freedom that has nothing to do with self-improvement or control.
Darryl Bailey
Life is an unresolvable, incomprehensible, indeterminate mystery. And that’s not a horrible or depressing thought, but rather, a liberating and beautiful realization.
Joan Tollifson
It is very important to go out alone, to sit under a tree — not with a book, not with a companion, but by yourself — and observe the falling of a leaf, hear the lapping of the water, the fishermen’s song, watch the flight of a bird, and of your own thoughts as they chase each other across the space of your mind.
If you are able to be alone and watch these things, then you will discover extraordinary riches which no government can tax, no human agency can corrupt, and which can never be destroyed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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