MYSTERY Emerging….

Mystery Emerging When concepts of “I” and “awake” and “enlightened” die, what happens next?  In my last blog I said ‘Mystery’ is next.  Mystery looks like a release of deeply held muscle tension.  Hearing from a long-ago dharma buddy whose wife read my blog somewhere...

Infinite Mystery

A recent interaction with one of my gurus (currently alive) has left ‘me’ puzzled and looking at the search for ‘awakening’ and ‘enlightenment’ in a whole different way.  I think I got addicted to the approval of teachers, so I have wandered around for the last 45...

Who is the Guru?

Who is the Guru? I’ve often been asked who my ‘guru’ is, and I’ve had to ponder carefully when answering the question.  I don’t have just one guru, I’ve had many.  There is a long tradition of being told that we should work with only one guru, who should be able to...

Calm and Quiet?

Calm and Quiet Noise echoes relentlessly through modern lives.  There is the noise of machines, multitudes of people, and the “noise” of endless communication in a multitude of forms (text, email, voicemail, paging, pinging, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest,...

Nothing, Everything

Nothing, Everything In the Stillness, chimes sing, notes sound, clocks tick. I Am perception: perceiver, perceived, perceiving: collapse Into Essence when no thought’s intruding. Then nothing sustains the illusory “self” and Self is imploding. No seer, no seen,...