everything is emptiness

everything arising is emptiness

emptiness is appearing as you

everything you see, feel and know in your world
is emptiness

frustration joy desire love

emptiness expressing itself in every nuance of existence

everything in this universe
is empty

I Am – the Self, is the hero that allows nothing to stop the truth

Some thoughts to ponder

Who are you before assumptions?

Can you live without assumptions?

Do you love yourself exactly as you are?

Can you lose interest in being different
or getting better?

Can you be no one long enough to notice?

Are there any ideas you are tethered to?

Who are you before rules and manners?

Can you disinherit your conditioning

Can you notice everything functioning as it is,
without anyone overlaying ideas of right and wrong?

Can you see that craving happiness creates more craving happiness?

Have you ever noticed that happiness creates more happiness?

There is this matter of life and death importance I am worried about and working on
can I turn to the light anyway?

Can you picture protecting nothing?

When you know the enormity of silence is home base then

God ~ Self ~ Grace

is known no matter what is going on in the life

~ all going your way or the dire opposite~

The knowingness depends on seeing your relationship with

Fear ~ Guilt ~ Hatred

Even if you have faced these feelings thousands of times

I invite you to see if there is some suppression or expression entwining you.

See if you have any positions about the mayhem going on in the world

Now look a little closer at your inner life

Then it can become obvious that there is no one to get anywhere

There is aliveness in the clear, sharp here and now

and simultaneously there is the deepest flowing open depth of

Beyond ~ Beyond ~ Beyond

beyond all descriptions spoken by anyone

What can be said about that and who can say it?

Only You

I invite you to know this as yourself

The addiction to ME is the final addiction
it is the motivator for all the other addictions we have meetings for.

The symptoms of ME are my personal obsessions:
my desires, my problems, my solutions, my seeking,
my grasping, and especially my future.

In any given moment it is possible to have a disinterest
in all personal concerns and to leave them alone.

The meeting is Satsang, a gathering in truth.
OM is the practice,
being the sound and presence of Silence,
the undercurrent of the universe.

To know ourselves as silent open awareness is limitless freedom.

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The highest truth is that humanhood does not exist.
When you come to that conclusion your life will be BLISS.

Robert Adams

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What is it that you want?

Can a limited understanding comprehend no limits?
Does it want to?

What does an infinite being have to learn?

Don’t confuse me with unboundedness
my mind is made up

What if life started — right now?

Can you allow the past to be just that, the past
gone

What is always solid, structured, infallible and permanent?

Is wide open awareness the same as someone
being accepting and loving?

Can a person know what came before its own mind?

What lasts forever, has no maintenance fees and
never gets shabby?

What is nameless, formless, timeless, colorless
and exhilarating?

Beware the fury of a patient man
John Dryden

What is it about patience that is so desirable?
Why is it considered so good to not show disdain for incompetence?
Why is it so important to be good or at least be considered good?

What goes unspoken when one is annoyed and outwardly patient
most importantly where does that energy go?
Why are so many concerned with transforming the bad into good
and what are the unspoken rules of behavior that must be followed?

In any moment, there exists the possibility
of the falling away of attachment to conditioning
This is the natural radiance of spontaneously being oneself.
Open, unique, present, free.

If you can’t explain it simply,
you don’t understand it well enough

Albert Einstein


No matter what appears
No matter what happens or doesn’t
No matter what the mind says
It is simple

You is only the higher Self
and
You is free of all wrongs and rights
All gives and takes
All comings and goings
You is perfect

You is only the higher Self
no matter what appears

Shalom Aleichem
(peace be with you)

Life is ..
an obsession for the obsessive
a mass of confusion for the confused
a pain in the ass for the complainer
a thorn in the side for the blamer
a wonder for the wondrous
odd for the oddball
a daily movie for the voyeur
a series of acts of a play for the player
an opportunity for the opportunist
an ongoing defeat for the defeatist
a comedy of errors for the quiet observer