Articles, Meditations & Musings
Presence is the perfect state in which nothing can be added or subtracted. It is a state of completeness. Presence is the master's teacher. When you study with presence you learn from perfection.
Non-Dual Action
Non-dual action and meditation begins when we resolve dualistic attitudes of subject and object, of practice and person, of arising and falling away and integrating oneself not in the observation but in the experience itself.
Ordinary Mind
Many people seek meditation today for what it can do for them, for its effects and affects. While it may present a smorgasbord of benefits, seeking meditation for benefits sake is missing the point.
On the Illusory self
It takes a keen eye to discern the mirage in the desert. So too, it is not without its challenge to raise ones awareness to see through the veil of the illusory self. We all have an illusory self that we call I and me. It follows us like a shadow. We are stubbornly willing to fight for it and do everything in our will to justify it.
Infinite Mind / No-Mind
Mind is like the open sky, when you truly see there is only empty space. No end, no beginning; not high nor low; no length, no distance, no edge, no center. Therefore nothing truly to grasp which is why grasping for ephemeral things, objects and passing thoughts adds to the notion of unsatisfactoriness and an unskillful approach to being.
Resting Mind
Natural mind is resting the mind.
If mind is agitated, rest.
If resting the mind feels impossible, rest in the impossibility.
If it feels easy, rest with effortlessness.
After the mind goes searching for this why and that why, chasing thoughts and dreams, let it rest as it is.
Relax Into Awareness
If there is fear, relax into the fear. If there is anxiety, relax into anxiety. If there is joy, relax into joy. If there is peace, relax into peace.
If you experience doubt, difficulty or aversion in meditation then rest into the state of doubt, difficulty or aversion. There is no way around this great awareness.
This Presence is the Great Mystery
In order to know the quintessence of the Great Mystery one must relinquish all that they know. What one knows cannot truly be known, therefore the wise surrender themselves before the Great Unknown. It is the unknown that holds all that is known. The unknown is unknowable because there is no one to know it.
Recreational, Therapeutic or Ceremonial? (Ayahuasca)
This is a simplistic guideline which may help someone endeavoring into the world of modern entheogenic use to help them gain clarity and choice with deciding if the group or facilitator will meet their needs.