relative truth and absolute truth are two sides of the same coin*
to see the two truths as what is and what is thought to be
is to believe in nothing as the absolute truth of what is
to see ‘I am’ as the first thought, the source of all others,
is to believe in being as the relative truth of what is
nothing depends on nothing, and believing in being is no exception
nothing doesn’t change
be aware of being with choiceless awareness – not wanting the sense of ‘I am’
to be or not to be other than it is – simply see it as nothing other than what is
Judgment and comparison commit us irrevocably to duality. Only choiceless awareness can lead to nonduality, to the reconciliation of opposites in a total understanding and a total love. … Through this choiceless awareness, as it penetrates the successive layers of the ego and its associated subconscious, will come love and understanding, but of another order than that with which we are ordinarily familiar. This choiceless awareness – at every moment and in all the circumstances of life – is the only effective meditation.
—Aldous Huxley*
enlightened being is believing in nothing and delighting in being,
in feeling, and in doing well no more than need be done to be and let be,
to live and let live with nonjudgmental, choiceless awareness
in boundless love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
enlightened being is seeing deep and dreamless sleep
as consciousness returning to its origin, the eternal void:
nothing depends on nothing
and nothing doesn’t change
no being is a being
apart from the whole
except in the mind
and there is no mind
apart from the whole
being well is being whole, being aware of being,
and doing no more than need be done
to be and let be
may all be well
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consider the lilies …
consider any being:
no being need do more
than need be done
to be and let be
no one need do more
than need be done
to live and let live
with love …
love is being delighted
with the present,
just as it is,
flawed as it may seem
love is being delighted
with all things,
not as they are seen,
nor otherwise
love is being delighted
with being as a whole,
as direct experience,
as mystery and wonder
consider being as a whole:
nothing depends on nothing,
and nothing doesn’t change
only in the mind is anyone or anything an entity,
and to imagine otherwise is to be deluded,
is to be where we are today
whatever may be thought,
nothing is, other than the whole,
and imagining otherwise is delusion
nothing is other than the whole
no one is
if all that is thought of as you
cannot exist as it is without
all that is thought of as not you,
how are you not that too?
no one exists apart from
the interdependent web
of all existence
nothing exists apart from
the interdependent web
of all existence
consider any being
consider the lilies …
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living is wasted on getting and spending
waste no moment, want nothing, be well
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in the paradigm shift following Galileo, our culture let go of the medieval picture of the solar system, but “surprisingly little hung on the matter,” says Daniel Quinn in The New Renaissance (archived) – a passionate call for another paradigm shift, one where we let go of the medieval view of humanity that we cling to in spite of the threat to so many species, including our own
after reading The New Renaissance – the prepared text of a 2002 talk that Daniel Quinn called a concise expression of the basic message of all his books – please take a look at the related notes and links under the horizontal rule below
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live and let live
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity,
wasting not a moment of being aware of being
and wanting nothing, not even this
be well
there is no higher purpose
than being in the here and now
with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
no one need do more
than need be done to be and let be,
but people do – it’s the culture we live in
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entities are in the mind;
beyond the mind nothing is an entity – no one is
independence is in the mind;
beyond the mind nothing depends on nothing
permanence is in the mind;
beyond the mind nothing is unchanging
beyond the mind nothing exists as an entity,
nothing depends on nothing, and nothing doesn’t change
being beyond the mind is being beyond words,
so no one can say what is beyond the mind
words can only point the way to what is;
just let the mind be still and simply be
anything believed is also thought;
it’s in the mind
this may be hard to see at first
The four stages of acceptance:
— George Atherton (@notrehta) September 1, 2018
1) This is worthless nonsense
2) This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view
3) This is true, but quite unimportant
4) I always said so
—J.B.S. Haldane (Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) https://t.co/pzDLqpisB6 via @goodreads pic.twitter.com/uuljs3rz6W
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being well is being whole, being as in the mind
and beyond – as all that is – wanting nothing
being well is
- being aware of being as what is – as all that is – wanting nothing
- doing no more than need be done to be and let be
- living with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
may all be aware of being as what is – as all that is – wanting nothing
may all do no more than need be done to be and let be
may all live with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
may all be well, in the mind and beyond
may all be well
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to be wholly aware of being – doing no more than need be done to be and let be with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity – is to be in the realm of the brahmaviharas, beyond wanting purpose or meaning
to be wholly aware of being is to want no more
to want anything is to suffer
cures new and old promise to end the suffering
the purpose of life is to be wholly aware of being and – in light of this awareness – to harm no being: doing no more than need be done to be and let be
— George Atherton (@notrehta) July 13, 2018
the work of life is to cultivate this awareness
and the meaning of life is to live with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
being well is being aware – being wholly aware of being – wanting nothing
be well, want nothing
want nothing, be well
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