Reading Archives (Author)
Limitation Becomes Space
Allowing this moment to be as it is, just this moment, no more. Just this moment. Suddenly there’s an inner space around it...
Relationships Make You Conscious, Not Happy
With the acknowledgment and acceptance of the facts also comes a degree of freedom from them. For example, when you know there is...
Not Minding What Happens
J. Krishnamurti, the great Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher, spoke and traveled almost continuously all over the world for more...
The Place That is Free of Suffering
The world promises fulfillment somewhere in time, and there is a continuous striving toward that fulfillment in time. Many times people...
An Ego Strategy to Avoid Surrender
What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which...
Noticing the Gaps
In the first moment of seeing something or hearing a sound -- and more so if it is unfamiliar -- before the mind names or interprets what...
Stillness Speaks
Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness...
The Basic Delusion
The human mind, in its desire to know, understand, and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how...
World of Objects
What is your relationship with the world of objects, the countless things that surround you and that you handle everyday? The chair you...
Anything Natural
Whenever you bring your attention to anything natural, anything that has come into existence without human intervention, you step out of...
Stillness Speaks
The mind exists in a state of "not enough" and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and...
A Habitual Waiter
Are you a habitual "waiter"? How much of your life do you spend waiting? What I call "small-scale waiting" is waiting in line at the...
Spare Some Change?
A beggar had been sitting by the side of the road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the...
The Off Button
Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing...
Problem In The Now?
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. You may find it hard to recognize that...
Only One of Them Is Real
One night long after my twenty-ninth birthday, I woke up in the early hours with a feeling of absolute dread. I had woken up with such...