Imagine if we were so clumsy one day that after spilling our morning coffee, dropping our keys down a drain then breaking a delicate ornament with our heavy touch, we were so cross with ourselves we decided to do something drastic...we decided to cut off the offending hand. How likely is it that we would … Continue reading Judgement
Tag: intuition
Atman
In Zen there is no self. When we sit, we are concentrating on the self that doesn't exist, devoting ourselves instead to the everything. We all exist as part of the whole, as part of the oneness, and in sitting we are letting go of our ego, of our self and realising our part in … Continue reading Atman
Dreams
Waking life wallows in the indulgencies of the word-hoard. Words spin webs of deception and delusion. They shape and falsify our experience...serving human masters of fear and vanity.* We are captives of our own intelligence. We label everything in a bid to master it, under the guise of understanding. There is nothing we experience which … Continue reading Dreams
Satori
The sudden and intuitive way of seeing into anything, whether it be remembering a forgotten name or seeing into the deepest principles of Buddhism. One seeks and seeks, but one cannot find. One then gives up, and the answer comes by itself.* We have all experienced this on some level or other, whether we were … Continue reading Satori
Sleep walking
What is it to be aware? To be awake? We believe that at night we fall asleep and dream, and when the light comes we wake and are conscious beings, interacting with the world around us. We use our senses and feel emotions, we reason and use our intelligence to solve problems, or grow our … Continue reading Sleep walking
Follow your heart.
Whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter. This life, this moment, now, is all that matters. Where you are going, where you have been, what you have learnt, what you have yet to learn, none of this matters. When you listen to your heart, that pure inner voice, intuition - that is … Continue reading Follow your heart.
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