Involuntary. What do I mean? I mean that the event occurs without a will. How can we prove this? Because all our bodily movements occur, from our perspective, no differently than our breath or heartbeat. They’re just happening, and they are our only actions. Actions feel like something mental, so that is how we identify […]
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Eliminating Problems
Problem. It is a constant feeling, a thought on everyone’s mind, all the time. Soon after we wake in the morning we remember, there is a problem. Somewhere. The mind is seeking for something it is uncomfortable with. Byron Katie would of course ask, “Is it true?” “Can you absolutely know it is true that […]
Interview with Susan Blackmore
I am sharing this youtube interview with you all as I greatly appreciate Susan’s work in the world. She succinctly expresses my sentiments on these issues, and both of my books directly mirror the opinions shared in this video. She is a nondualist trained in psychology, Zen Buddhism, and environmental psychology, who writes extensively on philosophy, […]
“Next”
We are concerned with what is coming next, what someone will do next, what will happen to us next. It appears to our mind that this is something we need to figure out. Is it true that we need to figure it out? No. Before we can even blink, next is already here, next is […]
How Can I Help You?
As all of you who follow my blog know, the content of my posts generally reflects the practice I have developed and embrace. I tend to write in a somewhat academic manner. I would love to extend my blog into a more interactive approach. Since this work I call, “Mindful Reality” is designed to be a […]
Find Out What You Do
How do we know what we do? We see ourself in our action. Our body, a physical entity, giving its weight to some surface (a chair, couch, floor) simply because of its inherent relationship to gravity. We can look more closely and see the full activity we are engaged in (writing, typing, walking, cooking, etc.). So, the […]
The Things We Do
The things we do are the things we are supposed to do. There is no truth out there that holds the key to the information of how we should be living our life outside of exactly how we live our life. This entails every single move we make. When I say move, I mean move, […]
One Action
Because we cannot divide time into segments, our body is really in one stream of physical movement from the moment it is conceived (and of course continuous with the moment before that). There is no beginning or end to our activities even though we identify them in our mind as specific individual actions. In the […]
Follow Nothing
Though it feels nice to have a mental focus, a goal to follow something in our mind, or as some say, in our heart, in reality there is no need to attach to anything like that. Because our body is always in some activity, i.e., always doing something physical, actual, in real time, we can […]
Confusion is Correct
From Body Over Mind: Confusion is Correct It is helpful to know that we do not create the conflicts in our life any more than we create anything else. Sometimes we find ourself in a snag with a friend, a partner, or a family member that arises out of thin air. Despite the unexpected nature […]
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