Our common shrine can be the open, boundless, indivisible awareness that is always right here, right now.

With peace of mind we find ourselves at home everywhere.

May we raise children who love the unloved things – the dandelion, the worms and spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn & run into …

May we raise children who love the unloved things.

The ability for two people to be together in each other’s company, in complete silence and total ease, without any desire to speak or express, yet allowing for the possibility of anything is evidence of a deep connection, a fundamental lack of separation. Perhaps the truest love there is.

The warmth of the sun but no face

Cold air but no skin

The world moving past and through

But no doing

Myriad sounds but no ears

There is just feeling, seeing, hearing, sensing — awaring with no centre, no interpretation, nothing to start, nothing to stop.

A perpetual unfolding

Just the world exactly as it is, as given, as presented, as we are

Leave yourself alone. Stop meddling. There really is no need to interfere with what is already perfect exactly as it is. Nothing need be added nor subtracted to be completely whole.

Trying to be something or someone obscures the simple truth of what you really are without contrivance or effort.

Awakening is like finally recognising that the car we are driving is actually fully autonomous requiring no driver. We thought we were at the wheel but the reason the car drove so badly was us fighting it at every turn. We belatedly see that the car functions perfectly without us and we are free to sit back and enjoy the ride.

Continual identification with every thought that enters our awareness condemns us to a prison of our own making. Freedom comes when we recognise we are literally not who we think we are. We are whatever is present before thoughts, concepts, ideas and stories arise to occlude the truth of reality.

All of which serve to distract and conceal the vivid, raw, alive truth of simply being here, now intrinsically woven into the world without boundaries or limits.