Liberation...

You can never be more or less of that which you already are ... perfect, peaceful and still.

There is nothing to add or take way that changes the true Self.  One can only imagine that they have forgotten their true nature, true Self and thus live in a consciousness of separation...all thought is consciousness, not a reality.

Who you most deeply are is never dependent on any thought or action that you do ... Know that you know and sense the liberation!

Shopping...

It may help to watch thought(s) of the personal I like grocery shopping. When you grocery shop, you make note of; cost, quantity, use, tastes, who's it for, ingredients, healthy choices, etc...You can watch thought just like grocery shopping. Watch your thoughts and see if you can catch thought putting itself into the grocery "thought cart" to be believed, held onto, taken home and used... along with being recycled, renewed and reused!

The mind will want your attention with every thought and to be placed in the grocery "thought cart" for purchase. In fact thought will want to fill your cart as quickly as possible making it difficult to push the "thought cart." Relax, breathe & watch thought as you move the "thought cart" through the isles. Thought will arise and fall as it continually does, as you give thought less attention there will be less thought in the grocery "thought cart"  and pushing the cart becomes effortless. The notion of taking a thought and making it your own begins to subside and freedom (that has always been there) emerges from the non purchase of thought. This is just a play on thought and for all whom who grocery shop!

PS Please continue to recycle, renew and reuse items other than thought!

Within...

Am I looking at another with my thoughts or am I looking at another from a place within, anew, totally present....

Are my actions from conditioned thought or am I moved into action through an inner sense, with no thought at all...

 Do I speak from conditioned responses or is silence the authentic language from which I speak...

Shhhh.....

Shhhh...hush, be still with body, you are not your thoughts, who is resting in the stillness of the body....let everything that arises rise; breath, thoughts, an itch, pain, subtle movements... be ever so gentle, let everything pass through you....Yield and let change happen, it happens anyway. Practice this throughout each day .... and joy will organically replace suffering.

The Play of Life....

 

What we let go of was never real in the first place.

Stop....

 Can you stop for just a moment or longer and see what is getting your attention? Let all streaming thoughts float by, as if in the distant back ground and let what is getting your attention be present.



                            You are blooming now whether you recognize it or not.

                                     
                                 

Open...Closed

                          It does not matter to a flower if it is opened or closed.

                               
  It does not matter to a flower if it is opened or closed. The flower's beauty is always there, always unfolding no matter what. It doesn't mind what happens; drought, hail, floods or even stepped on....it's beauty and expressive nature never stops. In time it will appear to end its cycle of beauty, set seed, wither and eventually disappear from the bodies eyes and yet it will emerge again next spring, all the while never loosing it's beauty.

You too are a beautiful flower, opened or closed, you never loose your beauty! See yourself from within and you will smile, at knowing your true nature, just as a flower does.