The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing
"In my experience, nothing is ever what it seems to be, but everything is exactly what it is."
Nothing is infinite.
Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.
But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw, stopped me in my tracks. Instead of the usual unlocalized centre of myself, there was nothing there, it was empty, and at the moment of seeing this there was a flood of quiet joy and I knew, finally I knew what was missing-it was my "self".
This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself
There is the feeling of being finished. The end. The attention is held right here, in the body, in the moment, with no-one and no-thing. The depth of feeling and connection at the eyes when open and closed is no longer here. There is no internal centre. There is no feeling at all other than the senses operating. It is as if all of the doors to the mind have been shut. Nothing scary, nothing monstrous, just nothing here.
Our true nature is the nothing which the something arises out of.
Duality:
We are always talking about two 'things', until there is only silence on a momentary basis. These two things are:-
a. The 'no-thing' which is our true nature or the Divine.
b. The 'some-thing' which is not.
The nothing we will call our true nature, because that is exactly what it is.
The something or mindbody package will be referred to as the Self. (This includes the conscious-self, unconscious-self, ego-self, feeling-self, true-self, knowing -self and all the rest of the ideas of the chattering mind.)
The self is also the entire package of the person which we know as me/myself/I.
If you turn the pages and look inside, there is nothing of me I feel that I have to hide.
"If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking." "You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming." "When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream."
Nothing is origonal anymore.
Nothing tried, nothing done. If you do nothing then you will get nothing in return. If the fear of failing stops you from doing what you want to then you loose. Never knowing is much worst than knowing you tried and failed. What if is never a good question to ask when regarding to a past action that was not made.
S.C
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing thst is worth knowing can be taught.
There is nothing to hide and everything to seek.
There is nothing to find and everything to be.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~
Who you are is this "motion of seeing" that is looking through your eyes right now. When you stop at and as this "motion of aliveness" - by consciously refocusing your attention to this seer; by coming to being deeply at rest at and as this one that is the "you" that you can never get away from; by no longer furthering out from this "you" and into the attempt to try and be something that is notyou; you are immediately freed from who you think you are in every given moment of this realization.
True happiness is completely causeless; it is not reliant on a thing; it is its own reward, its own pleasure. It is immutable and immovable even as it is constantly changing and forever increasing in its movement into its own manifestation.
Your true home is in being deeply at rest at and as the heart of existence itself, the "you" that you truly are and have always been. The heart is totally free of everything even as it contains everything, sustains everything and is flowing through everything - without any paradox or contradiction to any of it.
As you learn to leave alone the activity of unconsciously trying to be the mindbody that you think that you are - the mindbody that this "you" is currently flowing through - and you learn to move as this one that you truly are - this "you" of you; the very heart of existence - steadily, consciously and momentarily, the continuity of the ever deepening of this innermost as it keeps on entering its manifestation, through this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, allows you to simply bubble in the sheer joy, pleasure, peace, delightfulness and stillness that this "you" of you is.
The Thing of Everything
Anything is many things*.
Each and every thing — everything — is something else, so nothing is anything exclusively.
Including everything is the Thing of Everything.
* The scope of “things” is all-inclusive, including all words and all meanings, all thoughts and all theories, from philosophy to physics, from politics to spirituality.
Cheers!
~ Tom
Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
“The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.”
L. Ron Hubbard
The Problems of Work
