Nothing Exists, Despite Appearances

All there is, is this, exactly as it is.

Sunday, 22 September 2013

O Happy Torment, When My Torturer Doth Teach Me Answers for Deliverance!

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The Guru's Lament They think they are broken, Aching and finished, despairing. They sit with me and their energy fills the room,...
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Monday, 20 August 2012

When Such a Spacious Mirror's Set Before Him, He Needs Must See Himself.

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There is talk in the "nondual community" (if that's not too ironic) of the place, philosophically and based on people...
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Sunday, 10 June 2012

Better Far Off than Near, Be Ne'er the Near.

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There seems to be some restlessness in the "nondual community", if it can even be referred to in that way, with some teache...
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Thursday, 7 June 2012

But Had a Rougher Task in Hand Than to Drive Liking to the Name of Love.

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  So many paths, so little "time".  What to do next?  Meditate?  Achieve stillness?  See the abso...
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

All Great Fears, Which Now Import Their Dangers, Would Then Be Nothing.

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There is a lot of talk amongst nonduality teachers and writers about integration.  About having an "awakening experience" ...
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Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Wherein I am False I am Honest; Not True, to Be True.

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We are all seeking, and there is nothing wrong with that.  The emptiness, the darkness, the sense of being unfulfilled - there is not...
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Wednesday, 1 February 2012

I Am Here Already, Sir.

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There doesn't need to be a subtle shift in perception for enlightenment; there doesn't need to be any change at all. Change is impo...
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Thursday, 29 December 2011

With These Forced Thoughts, I Prithee, Darken Not The Mirth o' the Feast.

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If life seems unfulfilling, the fulfilment is in that disappointment. If there is suffering, know that the suffering itself is not ...
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Thursday, 24 November 2011

For Certainly Thou Art so Near the Gulf, Thou Needs Must Be Englutted.

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Why are we searching and what are we searching for?  What is it that compels the will to seek something more, something better, somethin...
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Sunday, 6 November 2011

With Truth and Plainness I do Wear Mine Bare.

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Enlightenment is the realisation that there are no objects or subjects: all that seems to exist is One seamless whole. Or, it is the psychol...
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Thursday, 8 September 2011

I Have Lived to Die When I Desire.

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The path to enlightenment - as one studies the literature and resources available, seeks out the working teachers, and explores the various...
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Monday, 18 July 2011

A Fool That Seest a Game Play'd Home, the Rich Stake Drawn, And Takest it All for Jest.

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There is often a compelling urge to right perceived wrongs, find the correct path in life, or change what is and our reactions to it. Meani...
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Monday, 6 June 2011

It Is Required You Do Awake Your Faith. Then All Stand Still.

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One way of describing reality is that everything is God; every feeling, happening, thought, object...everything. It is all love, it is all ...
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Monday, 16 May 2011

I Drink, I Eat, Array Myself, and Live. Canst Thou Believe thy Living is a Life, so Stinkingly Depending?

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Sometimes the feeling arises that whatever is, is never enough. It must be better, or stronger, or wiser, or fuller, or simply different. We...
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Thursday, 21 April 2011

This Bodiless Creation Ecstasy Is Very Cunning.

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There is no awakening. There is no enlightenment. There is what is. Labels of awakening and enlightenment are another playful game of life...
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

When I Waked, I Found this Label on my Bosom.

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There are so many assumptions, so many givens, so many "truths" we hold as absolute without being truly conscious of it. There ar...
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Sunday, 6 March 2011

How Often Dost Thou with thy Case, thy Habit, Wrench Awe from Fools?

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Sometimes, the expectations are met, and even then the ego feels a little cheated. The seeker will have a blinding flash of revelation and ...
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Monday, 28 February 2011

But You, O You, so Perfect and so Peerless, Are Created of Every Creature's Best!

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Perhaps it is desirable to stop whatever quest or mission you are on and just enjoy the breath of life, the tingle of being. These complex ...
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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

As Ravenous Fishes, Do a Vessel Follow that Is New-trimm'd, but Benefit no Further than Vainly Longing.

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There is no more point to going to a meeting of friends together, a satsang, or whatever we're calling it today than there is of anythin...
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Friday, 11 February 2011

I Did Steer Toward This Remedy, Whereupon We Are Now Present Here Together.

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What is it that would make everything OK? What is it that is wrong? How can a change in the way things are become anything but - seemingl...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

He Shall Spurn Fate, Scorn Death, and Bear His Hopes 'bove Wisdom, Grace and Fear.

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There is often a human longing for immortality. Such longing largely explains the cult of celebrity personality we endure: these people ar...
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010

Light Seeking Light doth Light of Light Beguile.

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Perhaps we'd like to call all of existence "absolute love" because that is a promise of comfort to the fragile, timorous ego....
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