self-help – Jill Eng

October 24, 2018jilleng

Automaticity of Time and Action

Time is all that needs to occur to make everything happen and that is free, completely free. It is our proof that there is nothing to figure out or generate. See how it comes by itself. There is nothing you need to feel you have to do, nothing. There is no such thing as doing […]

September 24, 2018jilleng

Wrong Ideas

If there is something you believe you should be doing right now that you are not, what is wrong is your belief and idea that you should be doing it, not the fact that you are not. The idea that we should be (fill in the blank) right now is wrong, not the fact that we […]

August 29, 2018jilleng

Stuck Where We Are

Anything we don’t understand about our life we can consider a mystery of nature. We are 100% natural organisms that follow physical laws as is everything else in the universe, just a variation on the theme, a different arrangement of molecules, as biologist Jerry Coyne once put it. So, our behavior abides by laws of […]

July 19, 2018jilleng

Where Is There?

“There” is the place we yearn to be, the place that isn’t here. It seems clear to our mind, that “other” place we long for, that inner wanting of things to be different, something to be different. What is that state of differentness? All I know is that it isn’t “here.” Even when we get […]

June 27, 2018June 27, 2018jilleng

The Only Right Answer

The only right answer to all the questions and feelings we have about how we should be handling any situation in our life, including the pain and urgency we may feel to counter the changes we are currently witnessing in our country (and world), is the physical activity we are in right now. As it […]

June 12, 2018jilleng

Looking at Real Life

To follow real life, more specifically our own life, we can see what we do in each moment of our existence. Where can we see this? Not by turning to our ideas or thoughts, rather by observing our whole connected body in real time. Where can we find our body? By looking down at our […]

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018jilleng

Emotionally Invested in the Unknown

I recently started painting (above and below), something I have never done before, and barely entertained the idea of. This has spurred my curiosity about my “future” as well as stirred some fear over not-knowing. Though I have had many shifts in my personal, work and artistic lives, I am always taken off guard when […]

May 17, 2018May 19, 2018jilleng

Beyond Tension and Belief

Tension blocks perception. It makes us believe things that aren’t true. It evokes a feeling that we drum up thoughts and actions that really do themselves. Physical/mental tension relays an impression of personal causation, self-created productivity. Tension fashions an illusion, but it is not that difficult to see through. When we have a new idea, […]

May 9, 2018May 9, 2018jilleng

Soothing the Mind

Give the mind what it wants; it likes to have something to focus on. Minds like attachments and we don’t have to deprive them of this. We just need to give them the right ones so there isn’t so much anxiety. Generally, we obsess over our mental/emotional attachments because we don’t know how to get […]

May 4, 2018jilleng

It Isn’t True

Disproving “should” thoughts is at the core of my practice because of the deep way we believe them to be true. The conviction is acutely ingrained in us, and, thus, we rarely fathom to doubt their veracity. When we don’t follow their suggestions it’s because we believe there is something wrong with us, another built-in […]