The world leading to happiness?

The world does not owe you anything, can not give you anything.

The idea that the world should give you happiness, when the world does not have happiness as one of its constituent parts, is apparently false. The world is made of mind and mind can only recognise happy and sad, not produce them.

Happiness must emerge from the only true reality, that before mind.

hitting a drum to stop it banging

There was a man, who dedicated his whole life,

to stopping the waves,

oppressing the sand.

~

There are many who will try and alter the world, and not the source of the world. As if hitting a drum would make it quiet.

Earth.

Most of them are at work.

Making money.

To buy things.

That help them forget about work.

In a room

Here we both are.

Our lives have taken so many different twists and turns.

Your life so different to mine.

Yet, Here we are!

break the bind

You can think "things are like this" (good or awful)

and be bound by that,

Or it may set you free.

Looks the same from here..

You may watch something grow, you may watch something decay.

Yet in all of infinity, the root did not shift one bit.

Remain focused on the root.

Then, as you observe them again, growth and decay are not different.

Spring cleaning

As any thought or melody or anything at all comes into your head, internally say Ooooommm.

Then draw your attention in, flip it up, and drop it out of the back of your head.

On Zen

What?

see?

Like using a telescope to look for your eye.

You wont find truth.

If it did not already exist in you, how could you have looked at all?

I know only being, not right or wrong.

False: "There are forces of good and evil in the world"

Why false? These are concepts, they have no reality.

"There are forces of up and down in the world"

"There are forces of late and early"

See? Makes no sense.

Individual and dualistic

Did you ever look at the word: Individualistic. And see the mess it infers?

big inflated ego

The ego is not real but it is a useful form of measurement.

The size of the ego defines the separation between self and true self.

The larger it gets the more the true self is hidden. And so the more the ego inflates to fill an every growing gulf - of its own making.

memory master

He was said to have the best memory of all.

It had nothing in it.

 

look back

You're looking for something,

That if you did not already have,

You'd be unable to begin in looking,

See ?

weiqi

Today:

Play, or learn to play, Weiqi (Go).

Wisdom Evolution and The Spiritual Way

There is no proof that Men evolved from basic simple land dwellers into great Men.

The evidence is instead that Great Spiritual Cultures lived and their only purpose in life was passing down wisdom so that all would live in blissful unity.

We exist in times where the desire for this spiritual wisdom is out of balance with availability.

Nature will redress this balance. You're going the right way.

Why? Is!

Not: "why this why that why me why why why?"

Just: "This that is and it is it is it is!"

One step out of reach

Who are you seeking this bliss for?

If ego is seeking then truth will be kept at bay. If person is seeking for gratification, position, accumulation, then truth will be ever absent.

Search only so that, realized as awakened, you will aid the world.

Teach with silence.

Rest Now

Is death the opposite to life?

Of course not. We all know someone who has died and yet there is life right here.

~

Rest may be seen as the opposite to life but this is only an appearance, and while some things seem to be at rest there is always life. Unceasing life.

Burn

Every book you ever cherished will be ashes in your fire when truth burns through.

The wave who wanted to be the ocean

The big wave who wanted to be as vast as the ocean - eventually gave up trying to get bigger and bigger - it dropped down, forgot itself and became.

 

Truth makes it simple

Always replying spontaneously with the truth, never needing to lie, you have to rely less on memory.

Relying less on memory or cunning keeps you in the present and living spontaneously.

Fresh and free and true.

Infinity

The universe and time are not infinite as in vast;

more and more and more, back and back and back, to infinity..

They are instead instant and are always there.

So you move and they are there. Always there.

Infinite that way.

~~

As measure is an idea of mind, it reaches the “measurement trap” of infinity.

No need to start and end in ideas when you know that ideas are already limited.

Acion!

No action, such as trying to become 'not the doer', trying to achieve oneness, attempting meditation, doing yoga, is in itself useful and it can even be detrimental.

These actions are only of use when the result is unity.

More likely they occur when unity is already the case:

"Ah, this is it! I sit!"

and not:

"I must sit and act what I am not."

Rulers: 'I know what is best'

If they think they know how to rule the world, let them try, for a million lifetimes let them try.

Then they can see how they failed, and then regret wasting their lives trying.

Once done they may look inwards for guidance and not try to shape that which is projected.

Now wash your bowl

You're full; you've read all there is to read, heard all there is to hear, been taught all there is to learn,

now forget and live.

Simple Wisdom

There is nothing to talk about, say or do.

All action and talk should be simplified, not built upon.

Able to simplify, and simplify, and simplify, and reduce to none.

Is the wisest person of all.

Path of suffering

Seeking happiness, is sadness.

Seeking pleasure, is suffering.

Can we now see what the Buddha said?

Living (for most people) is suffering.

Don't worry, I'm in control.

The ego is quite happy indeed that it is given the name I, that it is seen to be in charge, that is is seen to act.

Yet, when you meet the real self and turn to the ego, it whimpers, game up and disappears.

Don't let it pretend to run the show, ask who it is.

Do? Hard?

What is to be done? Nothing to be done. How to do it? You don't.

If enlightenment were done by the master, if it were some act, then it would be out of reach of some and something to be done or maintained - it could be lost.

Being is effortlessly being. Not trying.

Life in balance

Your life like a pair of scales,

are you too much in the past or the future?

Which way do they lean?

Too much invested in the future, too much thought for the past?

Sit here on the balance-point, or choose the center of the wheel.

That is here now and unchanging.