Direct Perception

Words are not really good at communicating what is actual.

If I focus on words too much they can pull me out of the actual and into the conceptual.

To live in the actual takes something. It takes an unwavering, investgative mind. It takes a commitment to wipe away everything that the mind has accumulated over time and see what is actually there without any prejudice or conditioning. 

It takes setting everything else aside - all the distractions of life - and finding out for oneself this most important mystery.

Is it possible to be in direct relationship with all life without the interference of thought?

That is the beginning of the inquiry that leads beyond the conceptual.

Restoring My Soul

Underneath my concern, peace abides.

Underneath my fears, peace abides.

Peace surrounds all things, surrounds all thought. 

Every atom exists in space. 

We are mostly space.

And yet it is that infinitesimally small fraction of the universe that we are obsessed with. 

Thought and form are dreamlike, illusory by their very nature.

My mind thinks that space is not worth paying attention to.

Yet from space, from no-thing, everything is born. 

It is the fountainhead of life.

I withdraw attention from things, from thoughts, and slowly put my attention on the vast, vibrant silence of the universe.

My soul is restored.

Be Free

Everything that we seek is underneath the noise and drama of the world and our own minds.

All the peace, joy and love that the religions, sages and poets write and talk about is already present within us. It is just covered up.

It is a constant field of being, eternal, still, yet alive.

It is the source.

All our worries and fears cover it up. 

All our grasping and clinging, fighting and escaping, obscures our awareness of it.

All of the noise and drama takes us out of grace.

See the ego for what it is and be free.