Headgear

My mind is not in my head,
is my hat that’s in my mind.

Swans

“The only real service we can render to that which we perceive and interpret in phenomenal existence as ‘others’ is by awakening to universal consciousness ourselves…

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…Intellectual understanding should be not indispensable to a ‘simple’ mind, but with our conditioning, it would seem to be an almost inevitable preliminary”.
__Wei Wu Wei

Reverie

Disguised as expediency,
it’s mainly fear and envy what sustains the fancy.

Mind’s Web

“Just as the spider emits the thread out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself…

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… When the mind comes out of the Self, the world appears. Therefore, when the world appears to be real, the Self does not appear”.
__Sri Ramana Maharshi

Reflections

Distinguishing between consciousness and what it is conscious of we might recognize the mirror apart from what is reflected on it.

Around the Fire

Spirit survives the world,
But flesh doesn’t last.
We are inexhaustible fire
And its selfsame sparks.
We are eternal flame,
But just a glint …
Burning out in this dream.

Light Beings

You are in truth eternal, we’re all divine,
amnesic beings of light who came here to shine.

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience”.
__Teilhard de Chardin

Zen Pearls

“The Way is perfect like vast space, when nothing is lacking and nothing is in excess.”

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Journey on a path that no longer exists,
No walker either, just the walking alone;
Yet wandering across the mist,
Is the only way back home.

The Happening

Life reifies despite anything you think or worry about.
“May seem determinism, but it is not … Because the only you there is,
is what’s going on“.

The Inquiry

From where are you looking at the world?