Expanding Awareness


The resistance:


The Journey:


The alchemy: 




One CAN Tell!

With Zen, one can never tell what is to come.

But one can tell what is here and now.
Comfort. Discomfort. Pain. Pleasure
One can tell if one looks.

Seeing Without the Mind?

How do I know if I'm on the right path?
I don't. Not with the mind anyway. And..
I do.. because we are all on the right path.

Right path, wrong path. It really doesn't matter for that is a value judgement from the mind.  For the journey is ALL.

What is written here is merely the description and not.. It. It can point towards "it" -  Maybe.  So you could say that these words are fake.  Maybe.

What is written here is really the mind looking at the mind, which... How can that possible?  It is just like running around in a barrel trying to work out what point you are at.. Indeed is that possible in the circle of a barrel?

Can I see without the mind? Can you see without the mind?

If you leave your opinion... That's not it... Probably.

Waiting... or not.

It is like standing in line in a store, or sitting waiting to see a medical practitioner. We  cannot be there before we are there.

Just being.
Just waiting.

In nature, I see the trees and the flowers and wild birds and animals. Constantly changing from season to season. Just waiting for those changes to take place.

It is not nature (natural) to hurry.  To want to get dealt with.  This is a desire.. Buddha taught that desire is the source of all suffering..  But typical of Zen.... "or not!"

And that is the question. The koan that Zen has for us - well for me anyway! But for us.?  Perhaps.  Or maybe later... Or.. There is only now! Or not..  

What  can I know right now if I look deep enough to see?  I came from the energy (chi/ki/prana or whatever term is preferred) of the universe. From No-Mind" and will return there completely when I've done with my body.. And in between?  Well is it not beneficial to wait? Just wait in the moment? For each moment?  What else can I know?  What else can you know?  

There is always an "or not!" The eternal now ensures that there is.  But it is disappearing constantly... Immediately.. Can't cling to that!  

And some believe that there is meaning here!  Or not.. What do I mean? Yes... What do I mean?  

Head in the Sand.




And who made this suggestion in the first place?
