Jacob Needleman, at +3:06:
whatever you do is never enough until you see what is
do no more than need be done to be and let be:
pay attention to what is, to direct experience,
to the miracle of being aware of being
this is being – being well – and it’s enough
no one need do more, no one need want more
may all be well and want no more
Consciousness – meaning the totality of thought, feeling, perception, sensation, pleasure, and pain – is not a being . . . Individuality is motivated by and perpetuated by wanting; and the cause of all wanting is ignorance . . . The ignorance meant is of things as they really are, and the consequent attribution of substantiality to what is merely phenomenal; the seeing of self in what is not-self.the above is from a transcript of Jacob Needleman’s afterword to his reading of the Dhammapada*
whatever you do is never enough until you see what is
do no more than need be done to be and let be:
pay attention to what is, to direct experience,
to the miracle of being aware of being
this is being – being well – and it’s enough
no one need do more, no one need want more
may all be well and want no more
2021-09-02T09:47−07* / at the about* post – at bit.ly/dateposted – anyone can link to this post from its date: September 2, 2021
*a link – or not; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer / … and maybe browse or search the archive*
to want is dukkha* / site search
may all be well and want no more* / ditto
direct experience* / Sam Harris on the topic, quoted by Oliver Burkeman:
“If one pays sufficient attention, one can notice that there’s no subject in the middle of experience – there is only experience.”
*a link – or not; see a note on notes and links and a disclaimer / … and maybe browse or search the archive*
to want is dukkha* / site search
may all be well and want no more* / ditto
direct experience* / Sam Harris on the topic, quoted by Oliver Burkeman:
“If one pays sufficient attention, one can notice that there’s no subject in the middle of experience – there is only experience.”