Quiet action....

A quiet still mind is pure, alert and attentive to what is at each moment. You have this action within you now. Breathe and quiet  movement, let thought come and go. Move with quiet mind. Action with no motive, no outcome, no agenda can only be an action in the present moment.This is freedom, liberation!

"Stop being a thinker."

"Row,  row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream."

         No truer words have been sung...learned as a child's song!

        You are not your thoughts. Row gently and merrily enjoy life as it unfolds.

Only takes a crack to let the light in...

It can seem crazy, radical, mind blowing when you discover that you are not who you thought you were.
And yet it will also seem as if you have always known, because you have.

Seeing that you are not your thoughts, is a breaking down of all concepts and beliefs you ever had. This understanding can be like an unfurling, peeling away or it can come as a bang...for most it will be an un-layering of concepts and beliefs. The good news is that once the crack has occurred it only gets wider! Mind has a lot of traps and the personal I, the me (ego) dose not give up so easily... remind yourself that you are not your thoughts...no matter how important  the thought may be. Watch and see the personal self, the me, identifying with thought, when you do, do nothing, let the thought pass by without judgement.

                                                    You are not your thoughts.

Who's thinking...?

                            
               Life gets much easier when one doesn't let the "thinker" be in charge.

Peace....

We all want peace.

We all want peace. And most of us also wish for; a less stressful life, healing for ourselves and others, answers, more money, happier relationships, a better job, vacation, better weather, different circumstances than we are in, something to be over or something to begin, so on and so forth....a desire of some sort for something better in the near future... the desiring and wanting is the all pervasive condition of the personal, egoic I, separate self. The separate personal egoic I can only exist in the past or future. What if we were to say right now, this very instant as you are reading these words that this IS as good as it gets, this very moment and the next and the next....try it on for size, roll with the idea that right now is as good as it gets.... you may land yourself in the present moment (if your attention is there and not in thought) and smile knowing that this IS as good as it gets!

Change...No Change.

External Change occurs constantly. Just observe nature and one can witness changes on the most  grandiose or subtle scale. The body does the exact same thing whether one recognizes it or not. There is birth, living and death. External changes of all forms occur over what we call  time.

Internal Change happens when we have a sudden stir (or shock) that gives rise to a knowing that the external world is not making sense. This generally marks what is known as "inquiry" into, "Is this really life?" or "Who am I?"  Once this occurs there is no turning back! When your eternal Self is known  you will know only changeless stillness, changeless  peace & joy as who you and all others are, your shared oneness...from here one might say I am Awake and living!