If you’re suffering, try and try again to get this… This present moment is an experience. It contains the person you take yourself to be and the world in which you appear to inhabit. It is all made of the self-same stuff and is very much the self-same thing: experience. You are not the experience,…
Consciousness! It’s the ‘hard problem of science’, apparently. But science and scientists and everything else are within consciousness. Consciousness is the awareness of experience, and what is the experience? It is the sense of being present, of being alive, of existence itself; and the love to be, the love to be something, this mystery, this…
I haven’t repeated this for a while – well, a few days – I call it the ’round of experience’. Take a look at the present moment. Just relax and look at what is. There is the world around you – sights, sounds, smells. There is your body and your mind – you can see…
In this wonderous illusion of separation, we are free to make choices, big and small, wise and unwise, good and bad; and for me, the ultimate choice is our moment-to-moment Shakespearean options. Not of either penning a comedy or a tragedy, but whether to be or not to be. In every moment, we can either…
You appear to be a separate and finite thing looking out through the senses at life on a spinning rock of land, sea and air that’s hurtling through the nothingness of space – so hey, just stay calm and carry on. But if you relax, standing on the foundations of a quiet mind, and look…
Finally understanding non-duality emptied my stress bucket beautifully, but my responses to life’s more challenging situations – regardless of my new understanding – soon filled it up again, and the level went up and down for many years. Like we covered in the last two posts, there are two parts of the brain: the vast…
Following on from yesterday’s post, because I’m a dude of my word, what was standing in my way? Well, I didn’t have what I call ‘the foundations of a quiet mind’. The foundations include the brain knowing what reality is, why a quiet mind is all you need, having the brain’s operation flowing through the…
A quiet mind is all you need, so hey, abide in the present, stay there and repeat, again and again and again, and merge in what is – that which you never cease to be – and in time you’ll find you are not even that. It is that simple! But, for many reasons, the…
When you abide in being again and again throughout the day, every day, for a few moments at a time, with the intention of dwelling there for longer and longer periods, anytime, anyplace, anywhere, especially in the hardest and darkest of times and places, then you’ll find, when you’re not expecting this presence, that the…
A few years ago I was groovy enough to see Time Clock Piece (One Year Performance 1980-1981) by Tehching Hsieh at the Tate Modern. I went to see it a couple of times. It fascinated me. Then I returned for the hattrick, but it had gone, and the Tate has never been the same –…