Celebrating Pride Month

06/30/2023

A corpse is still,
a corpse has no
anxiety or stress,
a corpse has no conflicts,
Why do many spiritual teachers
teach us how to be a corpse?

Dear Friends and Practitioners,

In today’s quote and video, Moji discusses what is unreal and what is our true self…

“Since you are bold and persistent I shall be equally bold: Your questions are not real. My answers are not real. The world as you perceive it is not real. War and peace, selfish and deluded projections of aggressive-natured beings, are equally unreal. Aspirations are unreal. Solutions based in egoic identity are unreal. Nature perceived as separate from one’s self, unreal. I also, as an autonomous entity, am unreal. You—equally unreal. Life itself, as is fashioned inside the human psyche is unreal. Death too, as is imagined based upon the ill-conceived notion that we are merely our bodies and personalities, is unreal. All is illusion—unreal. The Self, timeless and spaceless, immutable, beyond all qualities, alone is real. You must look within to find and confirm this for yourself. Until and unless you do, your comprehension of the world is based on very shaky ground; a ground of naive assumptions and second-hand knowledge.”
― Mooji, “Before I Am”

Today’s VideoL “What Is Our True Self? — Let’s Find Out”
https://youtu.be/yGM2XBE3tbY

06/29/2023

Doing and not doing
are the same
trying to gain,
trying not to lose
are still trying
Being is not doing
Being is not trying

Dear Friends and Practitioners,

Today Mooji talks about our confusion and our struggle with duality.

“Who can count how many lives we have tasted? Look at the stars. How old are they? And a star is not even sentient. You are sentient. How can you be less in age than a star? You don’t know at all. What you do know is that right now you exist and are here. All take this for granted. However, what should be known is what you are here as. And if what you are here as is clear, who knows this? You want to learn about so many things, but about yourself, you are not sure.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji

Today’s Video: “Mooji – How Do I Live in this WORLD of DUALITY ? Deep Inquiry”
https://youtu.be/U0sRGiFGrLY

06/28/2023

Understand
objects are only pointers
to that which is objectless.
This understanding
an intimate awakening
a forefeeling of wholeness

Dear Friends and Practitioners,

Today Mooji talks about “Grace,” and how it affects us.

“We are never without grace. We can never be abandoned, it is always there. God can never abandon mankind.

From just one candle, you can light a million candles without putting strain on the first candle. From one awakened being, you can set light into a million souls, so powerful is the light.

If you go into a room full of light, but outside is darkness, and you open the curtain, that darkness won’t come in. But if you go into a room which is dark and you open up a little tiny bit of a curtain, it will fill the whole room with light. Such is the power of the light.

We are this light and we must discover this…”
― Mooji, Breath of the Absolute: Dialogues with Mooji – The Manifest and Unmanifest Are One

Today’s Video: “The Call of Grace”
https://youtu.be/Wsd2WJfplKk

06/28/2023

Understand
objects are only pointers
to that which is objectless.
This understanding
an intimate awakening
a forefeeling of wholeness

Dear Friends and Practitioners,

Today Mooji talks about “Grace,” and how it affects us.

“We are never without grace. We can never be abandoned, it is always there. God can never abandon mankind.

From just one candle, you can light a million candles without putting strain on the first candle. From one awakened being, you can set light into a million souls, so powerful is the light.

If you go into a room full of light, but outside is darkness, and you open the curtain, that darkness won’t come in. But if you go into a room which is dark and you open up a little tiny bit of a curtain, it will fill the whole room with light. Such is the power of the light.

We are this light and we must discover this…”
― Mooji, Breath of the Absolute: Dialogues with Mooji – The Manifest and Unmanifest Are One

Today’s Video: “The Call of Grace”
https://youtu.be/Wsd2WJfplKk

06/27/2023

A sense of lack,
the price we pay
for the enjoyment
of feeling were separate.
At the same time,
we know it’s not right.

Dear Practitioners and Friends,

Today Mooji tells us about “being.” Listen and Observe.

“There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.” – Mooji

Today’s Video: “Mooji – JUST BE – Invitation to FREEDOM”
https://youtu.be/zWgdR9_hrs0

06/26/2023

The Me,
never ever present,
a figment of the imagination
created by our social environment,
and using memory to exist,
transforms experiences
into subject-object relationships,
reinforces the false belief
there’s fulfillment in objects.
dissolves with the ego,
spontaneously revealing
the SELF.

This week More Mooji. Why? Because he has a lot of great stuff, important stuff. And next week we will check out Mooji’s master, Papaji, where much of this good stuff has arisen.

“Take courage. Being free is neither difficult nor distant. I know it has often been conceived, perceived and presented to be rare, remote and difficult, but all that is delusion—a great seeming. I don’t know why awakening happens in one heart so completely and in another there is some delay or postponement. I am not deeply concerned about this. But I know that the voice that calls you is true, and where you are being called to is real and true. Heaven is inside your own heart. This is why I am here.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji

Today’s Video: “Mooji – MOST Powerful INVITATION”
https://youtu.be/ITXQE7IMfPw

06/24/2023

Life and being are not two.
Consciousness and its objects,
actions and thoughts are one.
Life appears in consciousness.
You are not what appears.
You are consciousness.

We continue with Mooji Week. Today he is discussing the presence that we truly are.

“Don’t worry about anything in this world
and your eyes shine bright again. Your heart becomes open, clear and pure.
Trust.
As you move, Grace goes ahead of you.
Even before you take your first step,
she is there with you and walks with you along the way.
Therefore, lay down your arms.
Lay down all your techniques and your efforts
so that you may discover the effortless silence.
Know that the whole universe
is supporting your awakening.
Neither doubt nor fear. All is well.
Take rest.
Find and feel your Heart again.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji

Today’s Video: “Pay Attention to the SPACE – (Do this for 1 minute every day) – Moojis Wisdom”
https://youtu.be/bSH7TzomVg0

06/23/2023

Can you enjoy being yourself?
Canyou enjoy being?
Can you just enjoy?
Just enjoy,
Be joy.

We continue with Mooji Week. Today he is discussing our true nature.

“Don’t worry about anything at all.
You are not here by accident.
This form is just a costume for a while.
But the one who is behind the costume,
this one is eternal. You must know this.
If you know this and trust this,
you don’t have to worry about anything.
This world is so full of love.
And your heart, your being,
is so full of love, so full of peace.
You don’t have to go
to some place else to find peace.
It is right where you are.”
― Mooji

Today’s Video: “Essential Pointer for Awakening”
https://youtu.be/d4aoF7YairQ

06/22/2023

aware and awake
in the present moment
body and mind in harmony
as we move with mindfulness
through our practice,
through our day,
through our life.

We continue with Mooji Week. Today he is discussing an aspect that could certainly be applied to Daoism and Lao Tzu’s quote: “He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.” Here’s Mooji’s version of it.

“Never assume that you have attained truth. Don’t make any claim to knowledge. Form no conclusion or evaluation concerning truth. The minute you do, your downfall is assured. Whenever you imagine you know something, you cease being open to the living exploration. You have closed a door and cut off the oxygen to the breathing truth.”
― Mooji

Today’s Video: “Discover the Difference Between Your Self and Your Mind”
https://youtu.be/ucmwNbwa5gU

06/21/2023

enslaved by opinions and habits,
the source of perpetual conflict,
observe how your mind works,
look at how it functions.
a moment will come
when you discover
yourself watching, looking

We continue with Mooji Week. Today he is discussing being present in your own presence.

“Don’t be a storehouse of memories. Leave past, future and even present thoughts behind. Be a witness to life unfolding by itself. Be free of all attachments, fears and concerns by keeping your mind inside your own heart. Rest in being. Like this, your life is always fresh and imbued with pure joy and timeless presence. Be happy, wise and free.”
― Mooji, White Fire: Spiritual insights and teachings of advaita zen master Mooji

Today’s Video: “Dwell Inside Your Own Presence”
https://youtu.be/Q1JY2mXhIwI

06/20/2023

look at the world
from wholeness
and it will change
in you for you
are the world

We continue with Mooji Week. Today he is discussing discovering your Natural State of Being, which really isn’t a state at all but a continuum.

“There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being.” ― Mooji

Today’s Video: “Observe with Detachment and Discover Your Natural State of Being”
https://youtu.be/frTSvv1cmnI

JuneTeenth, 2023

Never forget
the passing character
of all exoerience.
This is all you need do
and the door of grace
will open before you.

Happy JuneTeenth, everyone.

This week we focus on the quotes and video lessons of one Tony Moo-Young (aka Mooji)…

“If you make human company too important you will not discover your true Self. Relationships not based in truth are never entirely reliable and are rarely enduring.
Taking time to discover yourself is the best use of time.
Prioritize this.
One should not excessively seek partners or friends, one should seek to know and be oneself. As you begin to awaken to the Truth, you start noticing how well life flows by itself and how well you are cared for. Life supports the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of the one who is open to self-discovery. Trust opens your eyes to the recognition of this. Surrender allows you to merge in your own eternal being.”
― Mooji

Today’s Video: “You Are Pure Awareness ~ Mooji”
https://youtu.be/T2vw6CyCTjU

06/17/2023

The world we perceive
a figment of the imagination,
founded on memory,
dictated by fear,
anxiety and desires,
locking ourselves away
in this imaginary world
we mistake as our Reality

When it comes to the outside world, different human beings are capable in different ways. But when it comes to the interiority, all of us are equally capable. It has not happened because you have never paid attention, not because it is difficult or unapproachable or because you are unqualified. Every human being is equally qualified for inner nature. For external work, whether you want to build a building or cook a meal, or do something else, each one of us is differently capable. But when it comes to inner realities, all of us are equally capable. It has happened to one and not happened to the other simply because one has not paid attention, that is all.

“What is within you, no one can deny you except yourself. People have come to these conclusions that spiritual process is very difficult because they keep doing the wrong things. With the outside world, you have realized that unless you do the right thing it will not work. The same is true with the inside. On a certain day, a tourist came to a village close by and asked, “How far is Isha Yoga Center?”

The local village boy said, “It is 24,996 miles.”

He said, “What! That far?”

The boy said, “Yes, the way you are going. If you turn around, it is just four miles.”

“You are looking in one direction and trying to be spiritual – now it is a very long way. You have to go across the universe and come back. If you just turn around, it is right here because what you are looking for is within you, not outside of you. What is within you, no one can deny you except yourself. Can anyone deny you entry to your own interiority? If it is not happening, you must understand that you have not created the necessary willingness. There is no other reason. ” – Sadhguru, “How to Stop Overthinking”

Today’s Video: Mind | Prejudice and Identity | Sadhguru
https://youtu.be/b6yjd1VicmQ

06/16/2023

Silent awareness
not a state but a continuum
in which all states
appear and disappear.
Living in awareness,
all is an expression of awareness,
even the external world
and our own internal world.

Today Sadhguru’s focus is on negative thinking and how to end it.

“The source of life which is functioning within you is a far bigger phenomenon than the thought process.

“If you get in touch with something bigger, the smaller things naturally evaporate. The source of life which is functioning within you is a far bigger phenomenon than the thought process. Because you never came in touch with that, this thought has become so important. Or in other words, if your thought is very important, it means that somewhere in your distorted perception, the creator’s creation is not important. Your own creation has become very important. You do not pay attention to the creator within, nor his creation, but you are busy with your own creation. Isn’t this the worst sacrilege towards the creator? Not even for a moment has your attention shifted to the source of life within you. If you know the blissfulness of just being able to simply sit here, not thinking or doing anything, just being life, then life would be very different.” – Sadhguru

Today’s Video: “How to Remove Negative Thoughts? Sadhguru Jagadish Vasudev Answers”
https://youtu.be/lJCUC0mRkPo

06/15/2023

no room for improvement,
Reality is perfection itself.
How could you ever get nearer?
There’s no means by which
you can approach it.
Just allow it to reach out to you.

Today Sadhguru discusses our joyous nature…

“There are many ways to understand this. One simple way to know this is: today, if you lose your mental peace totally, you will go to a doctor. He will give you a pill. If you take this pill, your system will become peaceful. Maybe this will last just for a few hours, but you become peaceful. This pill is just a little bit of chemicals. These chemicals enter your system and make you peaceful. Or in other words, what you call peace is a certain kind of chemistry within you. Similarly, what you call joy, what you call love, what you call suffering, what you call misery, what you call fear, every human experience that you go through, has a chemical basis within you. Now the spiritual process is just to create the right kind of chemistry, where you are naturally peaceful, naturally joyous. When you are joyous by your own nature, when you don’t have to do anything to be happy, then the very dimension of your life, the very way you perceive and express yourself in the world will change. The very way you experience your life will change.”
― Sadhguru, Encounter the Enlightened: Sadhguru, A Profound Mystic Of Our Times

In his video, Sadhguru discusses making Joy our default state.

Today’s Video: “Making Joy, Not Anger, Our Default State | Sadhguru”
https://youtu.be/3_fH-bNB5NE

06/14/2023

You cannot discover it,
cannot become it
for you are it.
There’s nothing to do
to bring it closer,
nothing to be learned.
See that your efforts
only move you away
from what you are.

Today Sadguru (Jaggi Vasudev) in his quote discusses something we have been told to do at least once in our lives if not many times – put our heart into what we are doing…

“Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing. It doesn’t matter what we are doing. Whether we are sweeping the floor, or managing the country, or whatever we are doing. If we are putting our heart into what we are doing, it is beautiful to be doing that activity. Living in an atmosphere where people are passionate about what they are doing itself is highly enriching.”
― Jaggi Vasudev, Inner Management: In the Presence of the Master

In his video, Sadguru destroys concepts of right and wrong, big and small, important and not important to get a sense of what works and what doesn’t.

Today’s Video: “How to Always Know What to Do | Sadhguru”
https://youtu.be/Yx8BKV3wp0k

06/13/2023

striving to improve,
hoping to gain grace
to make spiritual progress,
to gain Self-Cultivation.
What fools we be!
What you are
is always present,
always complete,
it needs no purification,
no cultivation,
it never changes.

Today Sadguru (Jaggi Vasudev) explains how we create our world from everything we experience

““Everything that ever happened to you, you experienced right within you. Light and darkness, pain and pleasure, agony and ecstasy—all of it happened within you. If someone touches your hand right now, you may think you are experiencing their hand, but the fact of the matter is you are only experiencing the sensations in your own hand. The whole experience is contained within. All human experience is one hundred percent self-created.”
― Sadhguru, “Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy”

In his video today, Sadguru reveals the tools to live an effective and impactful life…

Today’s Video: “How To Create Maximum Impact in the World?”
https://youtu.be/8ZD7gMDYziw

06/12/2023

Images arise and fade
in the mirror of consciousness.
Memory, a mode of thinking,
purely transitory
creates the illusion
of continuity
upon which we construct
our whole world
of us and them.

We leave Ojai, California and Brockwood, England, where Krishnamurti spent much time giving spiritual lectures, and move to beautiful downtown Coimbatore, India, the Ashram and home of one Jaggi Vasudev (aka Sadguru). Starting off Sadguru Week, we read and listen to his thoughts on insecurity and other negative feelings.

“The planet is spinning on time: not a small event. All the galaxies are managing fine; the whole cosmos is doing great. But you have one nasty little thought crawling through your head, and it is a bad day! The problem is you are living in a psychological space that bears no connection with reality. And you are insecure, because it can collapse at any moment.”
― Sadhguru, “Inner Engineering: A Yogi’s Guide to Joy”

Today’s Video: “How To Never Get Angry or Bothered By Anyone | Sadhguru #motivation #angry”
https://youtu.be/v_F4baznTvA

06/10/2023

Welcome life
as it comes
whatever it brings
don’t emphasize the world
but change your idea
of the world,
of society,
of who you are,
not a separate ego
but your totality
and your world will change.

In this concluding episode of J. Krishnamurti Week, he tell us that we are the world and it’s not separate from us…

“We are the world. The world is you and me, the world is not separate from you and me. We have created this world – the world of violence, the world of wars, the world of religious divisions, sex, anxieties, the utter lack of communication with each other, with no sense of compassion, consideration for another. Wherever one goes in any country throughout the world, human beings, that is, you and another, suffer; we are anxious, we are uncertain, we don’t know what is going to happen. Everything has become uncertain. Right through the world as human beings we are in sorrow, fear, anxiety, violence, uncertain of everything, insecure. There is a common relationship between us all. We are the world essentially, basically, fundamentally. The world is you, and you are the world. Realizing that fundamentally, deeply, not romantically, not intellectually but actually, then we see that our problem is a global problem. It is not my problem or your particular problem, it is a human problem.”
― J. Krishnamurti

In the final video this week, Krishnamurti states that there’s no observer. Then what are we?

Today’s Video: “There is no observer | Krishnamurti”
https://youtu.be/KJ035oPj7KY

06/09/2023

You are not “this,”
You are not “that,”
All is impermanent.
What is permanent
is imperceivable.
You are That –
which cannot be perceived,
only experienced,
without words,
without explanation.

Today on J. Krishnamurti Week, both Krishnamurti’s quote and his video present his view on Nature.

“If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.
If there’s no relationship with nature then you become a killer;
then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man
either for gain, for “sport,” for food, or for knowledge.
Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty.
You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places
but you are a killer and so lose their friendship.
You probably are not related to anything to your wife or your husband.”
― J. Krishnamurti

Today’s Video: “How is one to live on earth without destructing its beauty? | J. Krishnamurti”
https://youtu.be/HXpv5IojLOk

06/08/2023

Surging forth unexpectedly,
in the spur of the moment,
without cause
free from the past,
free from memory,
free from thought,
without roots,
neither blossoming
nor fading
purely natural
without strain
the Self

Do you listen well?: How do you listen? Today on J. Krishnamurti Week, he discusses how one should listen…

“I hope that you will listen, but not with the memory of what you already know; and this is very difficult to do. You listen to something, and your mind immediately reacts with its knowledge, its conclusions, its opinions, its past memories. It listens, inquiring for a future understanding.

Just observe yourself, how you are listening, and you will see that this is what is taking place. Either you are listening with a conclusion, with knowledge, with certain memories, experiences, or you want an answer, and you are impatient. You want to know what it is all about, what life is all about, the extraordinary complexity of life. You are not actually listening at all.

You can only listen when the mind is quiet, when the mind doesn’t react immediately, when there is an interval between your reaction and what is being said. Then, in that interval there is a quietness, there is a silence in which alone there is a comprehension which is not intellectual understanding.

If there is a gap between what is said and your own reaction to what is said, in that interval, whether you prolong it indefinitely, for a long period or for a few seconds – in that interval, if you observe, there comes clarity. It is the interval that is the new brain. The immediate reaction is the old brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, reactionary, animalistic sense.

When there is an abeyance of that, when the reaction is suspended, when there is an interval, then you will find that the new brain acts, and it is only the new brain that can understand, not the old brain”
― J. Krishnamurti

In his video today, Krishnamurti relates how it is necessary to live with ‘what is.’

Today’s Video: “To live with ‘what is’ | Krishnamurti”
https://youtu.be/xbZnR7EHJ8o

Celebrating Pride Month

06/07/2023

Objects arise from Truth.
Center on their origin,
not their appearance.
Taste their reality,
let it lead you
to letting go,
to effortless being.

Many spiritual seekers have asked the questio: “How can we transform the world?” In today’s quote, Krishnamurti gives us the simple answer.

“To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves and not to leave it to others to transform themselves or to bring about a modified change through revolution, either of the left or of the right. It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine…”
― J. Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti was asked if there was one quality that would end one’s seeking. He answers in today’s video.

Today’s Video: Is there one thing or one quality that will end my seeking and my confusion? | J. Krishnamurti
https://youtu.be/mIpYwaqM2vo

Celebrating Pride Month

06/06/2023

You are the owner of memories,
you are not the memories,
the possessor of memories,
not the possessions.
Why let them own you?
Why let them possess you?
Why let society make you
a heap of conventions, habits,
a pile of defences, aggressions
that have conformed you
into an habitual ego?
See it for yourself.
Realize it and you are free!

Yesterday Krishnamurti was featured the division of thinking you are a separate, personal entity. Today Krishnamurti points out a “right question” that we need to look into…

“You know, if we understand one question rightly, all questions are answered. But we don’t know how to ask the right question. To ask the right question demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity. Here is a question, a fundamental question: is life a torture? It is, as it is; and man has lived in this torture centuries upon centuries, from ancient history to the present day, in agony, in despair, in sorrow; and he doesn’t find a way out of it. Therefore he invents gods, churches, all the rituals, and all that nonsense, or he escapes in different ways. What we are trying to do, during all these discussions and talks here, is to see if we cannot radically bring about a transformation of the mind, not accept things as they are, nor revolt against them. Revolt doesn’t answer a thing. You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently. That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything. And to understand is to transform what is.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

In Today’s Video, Krishnamurti discuss a question we all need to ask ourselves…

Today’s Video: “Who are you? | J. Krishnamurti”
https://youtu.be/_uTZoQ6_h0Q

06/05/2023

Celebrating Pride Month

Being no one in particular
everything is possible,
a unique freedom,
the freedom of grace
that has always been
waiting to be welcomed,
truly living in the moment,
a timeless, causeless moment,
a moment of pure joy,
no longer being the someone
you always thought you were.

Last week we featured Billy Doyle in London, UK. This week we jump to Ojai, CA, which serves as the headquarters for the Krishnamurti Foundation and where this famous spiritual teacher spent a good portion of his time. I am certain Krishnamurti needs no introduction as seekers from around the world are quite familiar with him and his teachings through lectures, books and videos.

Today his quote is on a social plague that is far worse than the COVID virus and is dividing our nation and threatening our democracy.

““When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

So what is the antidote to this violence, plaguing our nation? Watch the following video.

Today’s Video: “The quality of intelligence | J. Krishnamurti”
https://youtu.be/qLFo_0D8bfE

06/03/2023

“you know the world around you
you know your house
you know your body, your thoughts,
emotions, your personality
but who is this knower
you can never know the knower
it is not an object to be known
it is the eternal background
the silence…”
-Billy Doyle, “The Mirage of Separation”

This is the last day of Billy Doyle Week. Today Billy delves deeper into what points to awareness and the expressions of consciousness and closes appropriately with a body awareness meditation in Today’s Video.

“The body is thus a pointer to awareness. The purpose of all objects is to remind us of our real nature: awareness, consciousness. The
world is thus not a problem, but a continual reminder of who we are. We can also say that all so-called objects are consciousness celebrating itself.

“Ultimately, we come to realise that the body and all manifestation are nothing but awareness…

“What is listened to, is an important pedagogical device until we realise that the body and the whole of the manifest world are expressions of consciousness, and as such nothing other than consciousness.”
– Billy Doyle, “Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition

Today’s Video: “Billy Doyle Guided Body Awareness Meditation”
https://youtu.be/LC288_o5drc

06/02/2023

“…the winds of thought
puff up the sails of the ego
and blow you hither and thither
from crest to trough
from pleasure to pain
but if you just observe
these thoughts with disinterest
they will subside
and the sails of the ego
will go slack
and you will be
one with the ocean…”
– Billy Doyle, “The Mirage of Separation”

Today we continued with Billy Doyle Week. Yes, to be one with the ocean, the ocean of love, of beauty, of peace. Nothing to do just observe without emotion, without concern, and the turmoil will subside like mud dissolving to the bottom, leaving thewater above absolutely clear. Today another insightful quote from Billy Doyle’s “Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition.”

“When we don’t question the initial premise, ‘I am a personal entity’, all subsequent practices only reinforce our false sense of self…But what we are in our essential nature can never be an object, can never be known in terms of the senses or mind. All that can be obtained is an object; when we truly realise the full implication of this fact there is a stop, a giving up of all striving and a re-orchestration of our energy…let the object die in silence.”
– Billy Doyle, “Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition”

Today’s Video: “Who Am I? What Is My Real Nature? Billy Doyle”
https://youtu.be/2EiEj_uJUnw

06/01/2023

the ego is as sticky as glue
all the debris collects round it
producing karmic layering
burying you deep in your individuality
but to the Self nothing can cling
being nothing, insults pass unregistered
praise, adulation likewise
nothing invades sacred space
for there is nothing outside
and nothing to defend
– Billy Doyle,”The Mirage of Separation”

Today we continue to feature Billy Doyle Week with his poetry and spiritually-oriented, nondual yoga in the Kashmir Tradition.

“There is listening before we listen to the body, there is listening after. The body unfolds in listening and since we don’t emphasise what we listen to, once it has told its story it naturally dissolves back into awareness. The presence of the body in awareness is discontinuous, but awareness, the background, is continuous. In this process we carry back the object, in this case the body, to its generic form eliminating its changing nature.” – Billy Doyle, “Yoga in the Kashmir Tradition”

Today’s Video: “Verticality & Expansion in Space – Guided Meditation – Billy Doyle (Part 4)”
https://youtu.be/HMXk57ozi98