Thisness

Can we see that we cannot force ourselves to do anything? We can only allow ourselves to be exactly everything we already are.

If we relinquish our small, narrow, blinkered self we discover our innate, open infinite being. We find a boundless capacity for everything.

Want just breeds more want. There is no end to wanting. Can we see that when all our wants are fulfilled there are just more piling up waiting to be quenched. We never arrive.

Can we see that to release ourselves from all wanting, we always already have exactly everything we need, right here, right now.

‘Amor Fati’. Can we say ‘Yes’ to the entirety of our life? When we do there is nothing to be afraid of.

Can we remain as we are without constantly trying to change by wanting or resisting?

Change is inevitable despite what we may desire or try to deny.

If we let go of all effort to be or not to be we change anyway, automatically without effort.

Counter intuitively if we surrender to change we are free to recognise the only battles we fight are with ourselves.

What do we find when we let go of wanting? What is here, now in the clear light of not knowing? Can we simply rest here unconditionally?

It’s easy to cling on to the forms, props and materials surrounding meditative practice and forget the essential aspect of letting go of spiritual materialism to rest in the open clarity of the present moment free from all objects of identification.

Our true authentic being is not thought or rationalised into existence, it is simply whatever we find when let go of all thoughts and ideas of what we want and don’t want to be.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung

Can we see that ‘knowing’ is the most limiting, restrictive, unhelpful and stultifying condition there is, whereas ‘not knowing’ is the most open, liberating, expansive and valuable way of being?