Life is so intelligently organized and self-organizing that it is only the habit of un-awareness that causes us to think and behave as if we could improve on its design, or ignore or resist it! Yet, when we yield to it – the experience of enlightenment – living becomes effortless. We’ve got out ot the way and allowed Life to live us! Magnificently. Joyously. Limitlessly.
Apart from restoring us to ‘ground zero’ and the relaxed yet attentive state that it puts us in, mindfulness increases our efficiency. Whether it’s the simplest, most mundane (aka ‘mindless’!) activities like unscrewing the lid of a jar or tapping the desired key on your keyboard or something that requires much greater cognitive and emotional […]
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The rain has no sound except as it lands on the accepting leaves and their resolute branches the sleepy roof tiles and the open pots in the garden the ground sometimes covered in pavement and sometimes not The rain has no sound as it travels through space If you are the rain I’ll be the
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Trust that silent voice inside you Trust how it touches you in places you had long forgotten How it awakens sensations never felt before How it electrifies the skin covering your head Trust it because it comes from a place unmangled by human understanding unscripted by convention or subdued by logic or chastened by judgement
We unconsciously dismiss or hurry each moment in our persistent belief that the future is unquestionably more important than the present. We are after all driven through life by a preoccupation with our future rather than with the here and now. At best, ‘here and now’ is a necessary inconvenience, something that we must reluctantly
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There are many truths that are inconvenient to us. If we let that inconvenience stop us from hearing the truth, from listening to it fully and openly, from allowing ourselves to feel it, then we are placing obstacles in the stream of love that naturally and effortlessly flows through us. We are cutting ourselves off
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As I resume my waking-walking journey each day, I like to remind myself of these guidelines: Do not rush. Be present wherever you are, whatever you’re doing. Do not compare yourself with anyone else. Spend time with the child within you that Innocence out of which you have incarnated. Trust, wholeheartedly and uncompromisingly
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Settle your thoughts Come into the place where there are no questions and no answers Where there is nothing to be understood Where the vision is scintillatingly clear And the hearing unerring Where there is neither rush nor torpor Where wakefulness strides with majesty and grace Come into the place that has neither name nor
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When you are standing in your conditioned/ego mind, you have only its conditioned/learned understandings, assumptions and permissions to draw on. Your responses can therefore never be fresh, original or unscripted. But when you leave the city of your conditioned/ego mind and take even one small step ‘beyond the ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing’ (Rumi) and
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I catch myself in the middle of doing the dishes or washing my hands or doing the laundry or vacuuming the floor and realize that I am hurrying. It’s driven by a sense that I need to be doing something else, that I want to be doing something else that is better or more important
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Beannacht On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you