Enlightenment – what is that? A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. “Spare some change?” mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. “I have nothing to give you,” said the stranger. Then he asked: “What’s that you are sitting on?” “Nothing,” replied the beggar. “Just an old box. … Continue reading The Power of Now
I was thinking yesterday about you and the war, i found out that they didn’t even give all the men counseling after the war, it messed you up real bad, but i want you to know that i don’t care that you had to drink to take the feeling away, i don’t care about those things, because i understand, you and your fellow friends fighting … Continue reading Dear Dad
As you grow up you form a mental image of who you are based on your personal and cultural conditioning. We may call this phantom self the ego. It consists of mind activity and can only be kept going through constant thinking. The term egomeans different things to different people but when I use it here it means a false self created by unconscious identification … Continue reading Enlightenment: Rising Above Thought
I wish you could see how i am struggling to get information out of people who has more answers then i have, i don’t understand why they are making this so difficult for me to get a photo or letter, anything of yours for me to hold on to… what is there to hide? is my past so horrible? is that why i have no … Continue reading Dear daddy
I am writing to you because talking to you will not be possible, so this will have to do. So many years has gone past and i really need to talk to you, i need to know what happened, i need to remember my childhood… i looked at your photos and i cried, i cried because i am lost and i have a longing for … Continue reading Dear Dad
The human condition The human condition: lost in thought. Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond the narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past. In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you … Continue reading The human condition: lost in thought.
Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception most white people have tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They are always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always want something. They are always uneasy and restless. We don’t know what … Continue reading What Are They Seeking?
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person. Posted from WordPress for BlackBerry. Continue reading What is stillness?
Chapter 1 When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. Posted from WordPress for BlackBerry. Continue reading Losing touch
When you say Being, are you talking about God? If you are, then why don’t you say it? The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse. I use it sometimes, but I do so sparingly. By misuse, I mean that people who have never even glimpsed the realm of the sacred, the infinite vastness behind that word, use it … Continue reading The Word ‘Being’
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