mind – Page 4 – What’s here now?

I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Finding and accepting your own mind makes clear the recognition that, not only does all seeking end, but you are home having never left.

When you feel you are everything there is no need to believe in anything.

It is inarguably true that I exist. That I am. The mind’s response to this fundamental fact is to miniaturize it, to make it absurd, to say ‘I am a body.’ The belief that I am a body is the First Mistake. From the chalice of this mistake are poured a thousand others. That life begins and ends, for example, just as the time-bound body begins and ends. Obviously, life is timeless. It has no beginning and no end, and despite what Oprah says, no one lives a life. We are life.
The Trojan Horse of mistakes

You can only find your own mind.

If you’re confused you’re thinking.

The problems of thought are not solved by more thinking.

This is it, with or without language or meaning, what is here now is everything.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

– Linji Yixuan

You’ve noticed by now that more suffering is inflicted on the world by people who take offence than by people who give it. And that what we stop doing is vastly more significant than what we start doing.
What he meant

At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.

— Bodhidharma

Lao-tzu is the example of a man with superior insight who has seen and experienced worth and worthlessness, and who at the end of his life desires to return into his own being, into the eternal unknowable meaning.

– Carl Jung

Accepting you cannot know who and what you are is wisdom.

There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is really yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

– Carl Jung, The Red Book

Our ego erroneously takes credit for its alleged thoughts and actions when instead the appropriate behaviour is to take responsibility for our unconscious.

Loneliness and being alone are two completely different things. Loneliness is a lack, being alone is wholeness.

The bad/ good news is everything is included. The good/ bad news is everything is empty.

Creativity and discovery are the same thing. It is what happens when the universe attempts to apprehend itself with itself.

Whatever you experience is complete, whole, lacking nothing and entirely sufficient unto itself.

My world/ life may be small yet it is infinite…

One lesson Zen practice teaches us is that without the constraints that we place upon ourselves of trying to control outcomes, we find ourselves in the natural flow of life. We regain the sense of being part-of rather than separate-from and we can relax…
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