Will

Reflections on Spontaneous Will

By Eric Platt / September 26, 2023 /

A friend had this quote as an avatar in What’sApp recently:   “If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion, life itself will be the religion.”   – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) It’s a funny, ironic,…

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The Effortless Way

By meestereric / December 25, 2020 /

If there were an effort, where would it come from? In a stream, there are eddies and currents, and though some of these little eddies spin like mad, caught behind rocks, they make no effort to be what they are, effortless and free-flowing. How do we account for the paradox that an artist engaged in…

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Who Awakens? Further Notes on Liberation

By meestereric / August 25, 2020 /

Who becomes liberated, if there is no personal self, no separate entities anywhere in existence? This is greatly puzzling. I wrote previously about Enlightenment,  (and here) observing that there was no such thing per se. Regardless of what was said before (I haven’t reviewed the article for a while) the simple fact is, people do…

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