neo-buddhism ;-)

Everything is Enlightenment, Enlightenment is Everything.

being-aware

Consciousness is not aware OF the universe;

Consciousness is aware AS the universe.


--- Steven Norquist

"pure functioning"

We know it eternally. It is the background not only of thought---as Maharshi told us---but of every act of living.--- Wei Wu Wei


It is too clear and so it is hard to see.

A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern.

Had he known what fire was,

He could have cooked his rice much sooner.


--- Mumon

this

Being is knowing, knowing is being.

actual

What I'm pointing to

is "the actual"---

absolute "isness"

here and now.


Is there anything else?

"there is nothing wrong with you at all"

We are "too close" to our basic nature

to see it as something clear cut,

and so,

"following the Tao"

is the art

of feeling our way "into"

or feeling "the embrace of"

this by-itself-so

nature that we are.


--- Alan Watts (paraphrased)

"Do this, and you'll get that!"

There's no guarantee

in the phenomenal world

- except change.


--- Wayne Liquorman

No thing exists. --- Hui Neng

"What IS" is not a thing(object) to have qualities of any sort.

It NEVER is.

But sometimes, "we" perceive/conceive "it" to be some such thing.



That's okay.

Wiggles of the world unite!

You have nothing to lose

but your names.


--- Alan Watts

What is the Ultimate Reality?

Three pounds of flax.

It is always NOW o'clock. --- Suzanne Foxton

Reality itself

Is neither mental nor spiritual,

Nor any other concept

That we can have of it.


Reality is simply

The present moment.


--- Alan Watts

The way you can go, isn't the real way. --- Ursula LeGuin

What IS, IS - already, always.


This indicates that at the level of ISNESS,

"we" have NO power or responsibility,

and thus, may be relieved

of the duty to BE.

Apperceiving that there is nothing to perceive is deliverance. --- Hui Hai

It takes "time" for "us"

to perceive or conceive

of any "thing."


Thus, there IS no "thing"

that "we" need to know,

in order to BE

"enlightened."

thingk

People think

they're searching for something,

but there isn't.