Hi Fred, Great experience looking in the mirror yesterday and seeing this body without a sense of me. Feeling such love and compassion for it. Noticing how innocent it is when stripped of the sense I am looking at me. Now just empty awareness and it is such unconditional acceptance. It has been a lifetime […]
We have all heard and experienced for ourselves time and again that acceptance is the key to abiding as conscious awareness, as “awakeness”. Yet acceptance, both of the small and larger events and circumstances in life, so often eludes us, and we find ourselves mired in a place of resistance, of egoic malaise. Acceptance, and […]
Experiential Meditation: The Mirror and the Reflection VIDEO PODCAST You may find this post helpful to further grok (Google it) this message. The Looking Glass: Mirror as Metaphor
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The question is not whether or not I have free will. The question is who here would have free will? The recognition that neither the character nor Awakeness is in control can be initially unnerving. Our core addiction is that we are addicted to thought. Primary thought: I am Fred. Followed by something is wrong […]
Are you dreaming? Is that why today feels like watercolors mingling? The past and future like echoing song? Hush: Do not awaken your Self. Don’t stem the streaming colors. Simply remember that you are blissfully asleep. Breathing, softly breathing life into this world. This scintillating swirl of colors is what we are. It is all […]
VIDEO How Will I Know If I’m Ready to Wake Up? PODCAST
Before we launch into the question of whether our brains are the tools to employ in attempting to understand Reality-As-It-Is, let’s first look at a much, much smaller question just to get a feel for the brain’s effectiveness as an arbiter of Truth. . Question: “How many stars are there in the universe?” Answer […]
This is an interview that just went live on Halloween. I guess that’s appropriate. I sometimes think of myself as the scary, smiling jack-o’-lantern whose candle shines a big, white light. Get to know me a little better here. The interview went on for something more than an hour, but I don’t remember precisely […]
We are reflections in a mirror questioning the existence of the mirror. There is no location for No Thing. You are without location, but your sense of location is here, meaning I am This arising. There is nothing to localize: you are oneness and there is nothing outside of oneness. Whatever you are is prior […]
VIDEO VIDEO The Post-Awakening Time Bomb PODCAST
Re-turning All things return to the One.To what does the One return? The Spring Geese are flying north. Korean Zen Master Mang Gong (19th c) After three days on a backyard porch in South Carolina, Staring at the trees, the trees, the trees, Listening to the lapping of a Roman fountain, Barking dogs, […]
Student: “At whose wish does the mind proceed on its errand? At whose command does the first breath go forth? At whose wish do we utter this speech? What god directs the eye, or the ear?” Teacher: “It is the ear of the ear, the mind of the mind, the speech of speech, the breath […]
VIDEO 2-HOUR SATSANG! PODCAST ONLY
The only missing from this picture is the most important one of us all: Betsy, who took the photo! This view has us right in front of the fountain – you can just see the top of it behind us. The background is the cabin in the backyard of Clarity House. The newly added cedar […]
VIDEO Standing as Awareness – RIGHT NOW!! PODCAST
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A number of my Continuing Students Program members came to Clarity House this weekend for a series of Satsangs. We also shared some meals and lots and lots of love. I’ll be posting a page soon of our friends’ commentary on the adventure. It was an absolutely PERFECT weekend. The fellowship was AWESOME! I’ll have […]
The one who wants to break free is the imagined character. There is no liberation, because there is no bondage. Which is closer to the truth of your experience, the thought “I am” or the felt sense of being? You don’t know who or what you are. You know that you are, and have […]
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