Archive for April 2024
An Inquiry Into Feelings
I’m adopting a garden. A labyrinth. What do you mean adopted? Good question. I volunteered to be the one to take care of this section of the botanical garden. I can pretend to be like a little old Zen monk, toiling away, weeding the Zen garden, day after day, ignored by the world, listening to…
Read MoreOn Having Never Left: Being Awake to Being Awake
A reader asks: … there is no way for us to presume that freedom from self deception or waking up however we wish to phrase it, has any similarity for different instances of consciousness. The only similarity we can vouch for is its ineffability… The various words used to express the inexpressible often seem to have…
Read MoreTo Be Human is to Be Frustrated
Readers were asking why all the articles disappeared… It’s too much “responsibility” for lack of a better word… besides, I never intended to start a blog, but that’s what people called it. It was merely a writing experiment (such as for maybe a book project down the road) to test things out, and to share…
Read MoreSelf Inquiry: Finding One’s True Nature
I have a question. [S = “Student” A = “Teacher”] T: OK. S: Can you give me what you have – this True Nature – you seem very, you know, grounded? I want what you have. T: If I would give it away I could. But I don’t own it. S: But it’s what you…
Read MoreSelf Inquiry: On Spiritual Liberation
I have a question. [S = “Student” A = “Teacher”] T: OK. S: How can I attain spiritual liberation. T: I don’t know. I am not spiritual. S: You seem like a very spiritual dude. T: I don’t have a spiritual bone in my body. S: Really… (sounding dubious). T: They’ve all dissolved. S:…
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