Just Enjoy the Ride

When I came back to Austin from India in 2006, I went to the trail to go for a run.  I had run every day for the last 30 years and thought this day would be like every other. 

But it wasn't.

"It" didn't want to run.  Very much like Forrest Gump in New Mexico with the mesas behind him...  he turned to his followers and said, "I'm tired. I'm gonna go home now."

This song describes this experience perfectly: 

 

Being Nothing... You Are Everything

Have you noticed how abundant the sources of nondual writings, satsangs, books, videos, etc.

that are available today?

Here are a few gems I found...

You live among illusions and in the world of apparitions.

But there is a reality.  You yourself are this reality,

but you don't know this.  

If you awaken to this reality you will see

that you are nothing

and being nothing you are everything.

-Kalu Rinpoche

This is exactly what my baby squirrel has been
 trying to show me all along!

Love is Not Two

When someone we love dies, leaves, moves out of our physical sphere....  we feel a lot of emotion.  Some call it sadness, heartache, grief, depression.

But what if...   it's just love? 

Another flavor of the One?   

Love can't be divided up into parts.

Love is one with everything.

Love includes all circumstances, emotions,

 feelings, and thoughts.

There is nothing that is not love.

Love is what holds the cosmos together.


If you've never seen the movie Griffin and Phoenix, 
I totally recommend seeing this love story.
It is a brilliant example of a couple's realization that love includes everything... 
even death.

 

 For a person who has realized this,

 all the labeling drops away and 

all that's left is love....  

it's all love and it's always been all love.

The only difference is now there's no more attempts to separate something out of the One and compare it, resist it or manipulate it. There's no doer to do any of that! That's why the awakened ones are so radiant! There's just no longer anyone to stop 

all that love shining through!

Not Two

If one could just remember the words, "Not two!"
in the midst of any unpleasant experience,
one could be saved from a lot of confusion and unnecessary struggle.


"Not two" is the meaning of the term 'nondual'.  It means that everything is part of the One... it's all part of the whole.  And to separate something out and label it as bad or something we must get rid of is the path of suffering!

Like Byron Katie says... "when you argue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time!"  


Think about it... if it's all part of the One, then you really couldn't get rid of anything because where would you put it? Anything outside of the One is still the One!  


Now if we substitute the term "God" for the One, we would see that God is everything and there is nothing that is not God! Wow! That puts a new spin on things!


No matter what happens, it is all part of God!  That means that there is nothing that is not good!  What we have is nonduality!


It's a great time to be on the planet because people are waking up to this realization all over the globe! It's 2012 and it's time everyone woke up from the dream of duality!  It started back in the garden of Eden when Adam and Eve started to view paradise in terms of good and evil!  And we've had war ever since! Let's get on with it! Just a shift in perception to see that without the filter of duality, we are all as we are.... perfect.

All Things are Sacred

Each thing reveals the One,

the One manifests as all things.

To live in this Realization

is not to worry about perfection or non-perfection.

To put your trust in the Heart-Mind is to live 

without separation,

and in this non-duality you are one

with your Life-Source.

                                                                                                                            ~from the Third Zen Patriarch 


What is the One thing?
I call it squirrelove.... see for yourself!

Never underestimate the power of a baby squirrel

to open your heart!

The Trusting Mind

What could be better than love?

Nothing!

Well guess what?

There's nothing but love!

And it's my job to recognize that!

That's what my little friends here

are teaching me.

They are totally vulnerable,

live in the moment, 

and are totally free!

more from Hsin Hsin Ming by Seng-T'san:

" One thing, all things,

move among and intermingle without distinction.

To live in this realization

is to be without anxiety about non-perfection.

To live in this faith is the road to non-duality,

because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.

Words!

The Way is beyond language,

for in it there is

no yesterday

no tomorrow

no today."

  Certainly Seng-T'san must have been 

observing baby squirrels!

The Space of Love

Whatever appears in the moment

is for my awakening!

Seng-ts'an, the Third Chinese Patriarch said: 

"The Great Way is not difficult for those not attached to preferences.

When neither love nor hate arises,

all is clear and undisguised.

Separate by the smallest amount, however,

and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth.

If you wish to know the truth,

then hold to no opinions for or against anything.

To set up what you like against what you dislike

is the disease of the mind."

Even the slightest preference results 

in separation.  If I prefer one moment over another,

one emotional state over another,

one thought over another, or

one set of circumstances over another,

then I have lost my equanimity. 

I have entered the divisive world of comparison!

It's all equal!  It's all God!  It's all love!

If I'm feeling sadness and I label my experience:

"I am missing Bucky",

then I am not being present with myself! 

I have abandoned me!  No wonder I feel sad!

I've left my sweet self and preferred

a different reality with someone else.

In essence, I am saying, "This reality I'm experiencing

with myself isn't good enough!"

And that's the lie!

This reality is perfect.  Who I am, love-awareness, is

perfect with or without someone else present.

My well being is not dependent on anything external.

I am that which includes everything...
The Space of Love!

Every time I think some other place 

is where I want to be...

I miss where I am!

Right here... right now...

I am home!

Can I just rest in this?

 

"When no discriminating attachment arises,

the old mind ceases to exist!"

~3rd Patriarch

Primordial Squirrel Wisdom

Wisdom from the spaciousness of squirrelove

is beyond the ability of human beings

to understand it. It is naturally free and perfectly aware

and spontaneously arises in the here and now.

This wisdom-love is unknowable and ungraspable.

It is not a thing and cannot be made into anything.

To love is to rest in the spaciousness

of the profound wisdom in squirrel silence.

No words can describe this experience...

and any attempt at description

would only serve to lessen its potency.

Surrender is the only portal into this luscious wonderment.

Let me fall into this spacious squirrelwisdom

and wake up in my own loving arms.

A 21st century American alteration of the famous 16th century German woodcut

showing the innocent squirrel relaxing contentedly

in the wisdom-love of spaciousness.

~ by Squirrelady

LOVE IS

I thought I had to be running to find it.

Now I sit still and I find it.

I thought I had to be "in love" to feel it.

But even with no one, I still feel it.

I thought I had to be with the squirrels to be it.

Yet, even without my squirrel companion, I am it.

There is nothing I can do or be to find it

For it is always here.

I can only miss it when I distract myself with

"doing"...

I tell myself that I have lost it

And then believe this lie!

How can I miss what is so obvious and infuses

everything?

No wonder I get tired at the end of the day...

It is tiresome to fight.

Fighting what is, IS the only war.

Let me put down my "arms" and rest.

Resting...

I fall into the arms of LOVE!

One Simple Change

Q. What is everywhere at once, always brings relief, and is your true identity?

A. Open intelligence!

There is a mind-shifting book I want

to tell you about. It's called

One Simple Change Makes Life Easy.

What's really great is you can download it

for free at www.greatfreedom.org

or if you prefer a hardcopy,

you can order it at Amazon!

This book is written by Candice O'Denver, founder of the Great Freedom Teachings . I can say from experience that this book will definitely put an end to your seeking!

Why is it so revolutionary?

In a nutshell, mankind has been ping ponging from one point of view to another and forgetting the "view". In One Simple Change, we are introduced to a simple practice of taking short moments until they become continuous. No matter how unpleasant the circumstances might be, one can always just take a short moment, stop thinking and let everything be as it is!

In doing this simple practice, you forget about your point of view for the moment and you embrace the total view; what Candice calls "Open Intelligence". In that moment, what is experienced is complete relief! And when one is fully committed to the practice of taking short moments, little by little one notices that the suffering is gone and that life has actually become fun! But don't take my word for it!

If you are serious about peace in your world, then I highly recommend this treasure! Listen to the first chapter now!