keep realizing my Buddha nature

Very, very, very few people want to arrive. Very few. Most people don’t want to arrive. Most people don’t want to have their dream shattered. They want to have it made much better.

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How am I unenlightening myself? How am I energetically tied to unreality? Make no mistake about it, if we are in an unawake state, it’s because we’re energetically tied or attached to separation.

Adyashanti, in Abiding Awakeness

Every attempt to change my surroundings is a missed opportunity to listen to what wants to be healed within myself.

... “live in meditation, beyond boundaries of sacred and secular” with this one, since that is the essence of waking up. Another thank you to the 6 who cheered this goal.

Have you tried to let go?
You cannot.
No-one has ever succeeded in letting go.
Letting go is not for you.
Letting go is the end of someone trying to let go;
so do not try to let go. It will strengthen the whole game.
Don’t try to not think; it will strengthen the thinking.
Don’t try to transcend your patterns; it will strengthen the patterns.
The biggest pattern of all patterns is trying to get rid of patterns.

What should I do then?

Nothing.
Simply be available for this moment to kiss you.
When your partner comes home,
you are available for him to kiss you.
Maybe he will, maybe he won’t; but you are available.
Then the kiss is really sweet, because it is free of ‘me’.
Let whatever is here now kiss you.
Just receive life without doing.
Just receive what is given.

We are so busy living life, we have largely forgotten
what it is to simply receive life and let life live us;
to be unconditionally available for this moment to have us
and to recognise that every moment is the beloved,
whatever it contains. This moment is it.
In this moment, the beloved kisses you.
This moment is God.

- Tathagata from the book Given

... when hearing this music… www.myspace.com/katarinadileva

Take one step towards Spirit, and Spirit will take a thousand steps towards you

“Keep walking, though there is no space to get to.
Do not try to see through the distances.
That is not for human beings.
Move within, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

- Rumi

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

- Eileen Caddy

Received the newsletter from Gaia House (www.gaiahouse.co.uk) yesterday. The main article called “A sense of possibility” really spoke to me. “What do we honestly feel is possible for the heart and mind in this life? ... What are our aspirations and how have they changed? Has our sense of possibility opened and grown, or closed and shrunk?” Since I became aware of the possibility, which is not more than 3 years ago, I can see a wave-like motion, going back and forth from ‘of course’ to ‘no way’. Even if the possibility is still alive for me, it is undeniably on the back burner at this point in time. Writing about it here might bring it more to the front. And I’m ordering some talks from Gaia for more infusion, among them Perseverance and Patience :-).