silent thunder

Not so much indulging in compassion as compassion naturally arising in the emptiness and clarity of foundational awareness. Compassion, clarity, emptiness, arise it seems from awareness the way light and heat arise from a star. No effort, no seeking... natural beingness.

the whole quote resonates, but this bit has been almost smashing me over the head of late it seems...

Nibiru's cousin swung by for a visit?

Light sure seems aware from my perspective.

I'm almost never serious, but I am sincere.

true story!

those were Good Times!

Love it! Resonates along the lines of The Giving Tree for me.

man that seems convoluted and wordy... how bout this: the effort and process of meditation is not the source of enlightenment. rather enlightenment is effortless realization and is what remains when all illusion falls away. enlightenment is the natural state, always abiding effortlessly and seemingly arising when realization is no longer avoidable by any means available to the mind or any human process.

Yes. Well said and absolutely... yet everything in the end is part of truth. Even lies and side tracks are profoundly useful as untruth reveals truth by exemplifying what truth is not and in my experience... all of it, every bit of trying and not trying becomes grist for the mill of realization, once the seed of waking sprouts... the process, once begun flows outside one's control and desires and relentlessly presents situations where illusion is stripped away. For years in fact my very meditating and seeking was the final untruth another desire to dissolve. Another attachment to be relinquished in realization. The real action, the pivot around which realization is birthing, seems to have been extreme spiritual and physical exhaustion. A critical mass of release where every aspect of self, perception and notions of mind simply fell away, not from desire, or effort, but from complete and utter exhaustion. Exhaustion so complete, the only 'thing' remaining was not a thing at all, just awareness. When no more inertia to create and maintain mind stuff was present, when figuratively and literally I was lying in that position of utter letting go due complete inability to maintain any facades, or sustain inertia in anything... awareness abides. emptiness, bliss, clarity all seem intimately related, but really the ground is just pure awareness.

I contend there is no need to meditate, or pursue, or do... anything. The one truth, source, tao, enlightened awareness is never not present and it is you, now. This is it. To seek is to embody seeking, not finding, nor being. Let go of everything and what remains? awareness. let go and be that which is... the rest is... mind stuff.

danke

welcome!

hmm... compassion and agape as fundamental conditions... they radiate through emptiness/awareness (reality) as naturally as heat and light radiate from stars?

The modern bible was ordered and its books decided on at a time when no man in the church could envision a day when a common carpenter/artist like myself, and millions of other simple, common men and women like me, would be able to afford to purchase and also have the education to read a bible for himself. As such, they were not concerned with the myriad contradictions littered throughout the entirety of the texts chosen to suit the needs of the church at that time. If one takes the bible literally... such suffering. Much pity.

hmm... here's a fun thought if compassion is an attribute of emptiness... perhaps gravity is an attribute of this compassion. that which draws phenomena together <shrug> rather silly, but fun to ponder as my tea cools

I say poke the trolls... what else do they have in the end?

great quote

the sword is visible the strike is not visible ?

I appreciate your inclination to more natural processes of birth and growth. But I don't share your seeming level of pessimism and vitriol over the physical condition. To me, you lend far too much weight to the physical. One candle alights the darkness of a thousand lifetimes. Physical to me is gossamer, vaporous paper. Changing in a flash. Whereas Awareness is ever abiding the very fabric of all that we refer to as reality. Formless and empty, it gives rise to the flesh, not the other way round. So issues of clairvoyance, clairaudience, all faculties of mind process stem from awareness, not from the physical brain. The form and function of the physical brain, to me, is more akin to how dew manifests on plants in early morning. Brains and bodies stem out of awareness. And bodies shift in response to shifts in awareness/realization. My body healed within a few weeks of a shift in awareness, healing painful conditions that kept manifesting in my body for more than a decade. This is a truth for me. That bodies manifest in fields of awareness, physical manifestation is not the source of awareness. As such, the functions of awareness supercede even the harshest limitations of the physical in my experience.

true enough... this brings me to a point again that constantly asserts itself in my mind pond... it does seem life feeds on life, no matter the form and this is seems utterly natural, though intention in the act seems paramount. A shift in my relationship to decay has been coming on strong for several years now, but the last half year intensively. That life is seems at its core, a greedy, acquiring, grasping and attaining/acquisitional process... life is seems always to be grasping to maintain its inertia, while decay sings to me of loving, releasing, nurturing openness in totality. The utter release and giving away into the all in all. Decay and death takes us all eventually, because it seems to be love. Life is seems more like avoidance.

The more I release mind stuff and projection and obsessive thinking and believing thoughts, the more I seem to experience the only reality... awareness. The bliss associated with this awareness, clarity and emptiness I would describe as love. Though it is beyond any definition my mind could hold of that term, prior to these experiences.

Fascinating but I can't imagine the disconnect to be involved in such a study. Such diversity in humans. I go to work and build things... These folks induce heart attacks in anesthitized critters... and study their dying brain functions. "Welcome home honey! Good day? How did work go?"

I live with a palpable sense of the utter lack of independence of 'things'. There is no one thing that can to me, be demonstrated to be separate from all else. There is only One void is form form is void in a fluid, flowing change. Not a static, solid anything... anywhere.