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when lived in truth, life isn't comfortable - it's painful, messy, beautiful, pristine, disappointing and awesome - the only spiritual path is the one of surrender, meeting resistance pain and deep suffering on its own terms until the sense of an alone separate self dissolves and merges and explodes in wonder - the wonder of absolute being, living as life in this moment, where there is no path or method, but a slow unfolding and untangling of phenomenal experience. Spirituality as a furnace and crucible and as you say not a scented candle - it reveals our true nature in the midst of a violent uncompromising universe in all its glory and intelligence. We are just the simple ease that notices this. Thank you Sumir - your writing stirs the heart

I love the metaphors non conceptual awareness is the food not the menu, the territory not the map, and so it goes, nothing can be said and yet there is always the intention to let everything drop away with wise or indeed true attention. Freedom from...... when entangled in..... we fill in the blanks to remain in separate subject/object relationship until we die from being someone dissolving back into being the vastness itself. I am so grateful for this guidance, this re-minding, these dialogues, this connection but most of all grateful to be everything that is alive - boundless and spacious as well as small restricted and human .

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Of course the development of our reflective capacities play an enormous role in the realisation of how we are habitually preprogrammed, but for those who do not reflect or care to, they live and can be driven from the delusional bias of believing their thoughts feelings and even sense perceptions. I am often caught out by the tricks of the mind believing my thoughts to be real until I stop to breathe notice, to just be aware so that the one who is aware is not lost in herself as the thought. This article is fierce but true, but like all relative truths, it is also not true. Where there is awareness there is freedom from this delusion and we are all aware and so there is always that possibility of freedom for us all.

In true accord with this reflection I sat watching a water boatman slowly skim across a pond back and forth whilst the reflections of the sky also danced on the surface of the water behind which a whole new world emerged beneath the surface of the water another galaxy of life living in the dynamic depths of otherwise unseen experiences I could never have experienced until I stopped and sat to simply gaze. But I did experience an otherness and was all the richer for it - thank you for this wonderful reflection - all experience is simply a reflection out there of what is in here and in slowing down we know we are a part of something much bigger than the small self.

Yes I agree but would like to add one thing - silence is the answer to everything, especially if you are someone who always likes to have the last word