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When attachment and investment are seen completely—root cause as well as the consequences that arise—then the seeing is the letting go.
Toni Packer

The moment we notice ourselves behaving as ‘someone’ in relation to someone else or ‘others’ it is an opportunity to recognise this identification as a fabrication, a fantasy to solidify the ego.

There seems to me to be little point in insightful realisations if they remain within the domain of ‘formal’ mediation practice sessions. Awakening reveals our essential aliveness that is present all the time, everywhere before and underneath every moment of our experience. Can we not practice persistent recognition in the midst of life?

Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
Anthony de Mello

When ego’s meet there is, eventually, always conflict. When open awareness meets open awareness there is simply the allowing of spacious unity.

Meaning and purpose are just a distracted person’s imaginary friends.
Sam Harris

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate…

A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

In our original non-dual nature of mind no thing can get in the way of any other thing. There is no space, no separation between anything. A sound is the hearing of it. A sensation is the feeling. Open, empty, spacious awareness unifies everything. It’s only the thinking, delusional mind that separates and breaks everything apart into me/ you, mine/ yours, us/ them, this/ that — a fantasy world of subjects and objects.

We are not meant to be anything in particular other than simply alive as we are and only until it is time not to be. That is all.