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 […]
Tag: consciousness
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 […]
Personal Research
My work consists of observing my bodily movement, just to see what the particular activities are, as that tells me what I should be doing in my life. Otherwise, how could I know? Everything would be speculation, prediction. This shows me exactness. But, it’s unglamorous work. When broken down to actual physical motion of body […]
Easy to Know, Hard to Accept
Our body in the space is no small thing. It is not comparable to a story about how we should spend our time. It is substantial proof, the ultimate truth about our life and how we are supposed to be living; it is primary information handed to us, just like that. Meanwhile, our mind […]
Actions Are Involuntary
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 […]
Something Else
If we are not doing the things we believe we should be doing, then the message is that we are supposed to be doing “something else.” Often, the things I am doing are not in my mental line of vision, so, I don’t even recognize them as “things.” We align and attach to certain interests […]
It Is Easy to Know What We Should Be Doing
It is easy to know what we should be doing with our life, how we should be spending our time. It is as effortless as identifying the weather. Do we ever consider what the weather today “should” be? Or, do we accept it as is, grasping that there are no options for the conditions of […]
The Present Tense
We are born into the present tense. It is then the present tense for the rest of our life. From our perspective, we live in one long moment because we cannot sense the shifts of what we think of as one moment changing into the next. We can only perceive this moment. Those incremental differences […]
No Need to Create
There is no need to feel like we need to create anything in our life because we are, as living creatures, always in some state of activity. If you look outside you will see there is always something going on, something to see; it is the same with our organism. We can perhaps understand […]
Already Here
This activity I am in now, why does it feel effortless? Because I am already in it. There is nothing to do to get here and the “getting” somewhere is what causes me emotional pain and pressure. It feels arduous, complicated, effortful, like something beyond my ability or capacity that I don’t know how to […]
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