Meditation: waiting for the murk to clear and the spirit to sparkle.

If you truly listen, you will be amazed. You will realise that the space you inhabit is transcendental (of spirit) and that your mind, being (of) that space, is also transcendental.

We only become free when we let go. This is why relaxation is crucial.

The rational mind is not a creative tool (that would be the Imagination). Is all it can do is give a trivial reason for something that really has no reason. Like saying that the reason behind your existence is that your mother and father once copulated.

the disturbing
reality of

rampant
consumerism

political
corruption

moral
degradation

eating
away

at the
nation’s soul

FOUR CONDITIONS OF HAPPINESS

Life in the open air
Love for another being
Freedom from ambition
Creation

—Albert Camus

Before we can begin to even contemplate living at peace with each other we must first stop waging war on the natural world.

Alive in such a way that the world is always new.

Reduce the External as much as possible so that the Internal can expand into the vacated space. This is the Void. Empty of things but full of spirit. What Deleuze aptly called the Transcendental Field.

Give & take 

Give attention 

Take care

Letting go of everything: fear, anxiety, control, knowledge, expertise, opinions, values, judgements …

The modern mind grips things so tightly, with its anxious need to control, it reduces & strangles them. The enlightened mind is the opposite. Ever letting go, it shrinks to nothing, allowing the world to expand into fullness.

What fuels the noisy mind is the critical eye

Daily practice sheds anxiety, generates good energy, and gathers peace of mind. We are then better prepared to engage the world and give to the world.

soft eyes
invite

the world
rather

than push
it away

Imagine walking down the street minding your own business. You notice someone ahead looking lost. As you approach they politely ask directions. You graciously oblige. They thank you, exchange a few pleasantries, and head off with a new confidence. You continue on your way with a fuller heart. This is what life is all about: creating good feeling.

Anxiety, which is really just a need to know, inhibits the outflowing of your energy.

An empty depth

The Void

If you wish to experience levity, simply sit and watch the sunrise. You will realise that the sun rises not only over the hills, it also rises up through you.

The deeper the Form takes you, the longer you'll need to recover. 

Think of it as slow digestion or rumination.

Whenever I type    meditation    my spell-checker corrects to   medication

a modern episteme marked by disenchantment

soft  =  of energy

Reject the spiritual paucity of modern life.

An inner life rich enough to resist the need to conform.

Good people are givers.
Bad people are takers.

Avoid the latter.

Love does not make you weak because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

—Léon Bloy

each foot a
stethoscope

auscultating

subterrene
grumbling

If the work you have decided to devote your life to is not making you a better person then you have either made the wrong choice or are working in the wrong way.