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Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

Who am I now that I no longer belong to this world, now that the persona has dissolved into the ocean of the Universe?

A naked presence...

#awakening #character #growing #introspection #jlbouzou #meditation #persona #thoughts #writing

This life journey calls upon your courage to engage with the shadows of #evil in our world while embracing the hope for a brighter future. Stand firm in your quest for #truth. https://bit.ly/4xEil9B #Antichrist #Awakening #SpiritualJourney #HopeInDarkness

This life journey calls upon your courage to engage with the shadows of #evil in our world while embracing the hope for a brighter future. Stand firm in your quest for #truth. https://bit.ly/4xEil9B #Antichrist #Awakening #SpiritualJourney #HopeInDarkness

This life journey calls upon your courage to engage with the shadows of #evil in our world while embracing the hope for a brighter future. Stand firm in your quest for #truth. https://bit.ly/4xEil9B #Antichrist #Awakening #SpiritualJourney #HopeInDarkness

Сhaturmasya 2026

Strict and fair energy that gathers you, returns you back to yourself. You have to realize where you end and another starts, whose dreams you're chasing, whose feelings you feel, and whose life you live. Then stop being not you. Reclaim yourself.
It's actually part of the global trends, individualization and awareness.
Being aware of what you are and what you are like - and being only that.

#Сhaturmasya #GlobalTrends #mindfulness #mindset #life #motivation #India #hinduism #inspiration #awakening #change

ORDINARY GRACE 💎

Brunch was good today.

It was cleaning Sunday, so we had hamburgers at Grill’d.

Afterwards, I walked from North Hobart into the city to meet Pete.

Now I am home, fresh from breathwork, feeling grateful and wondering what I could possibly have done to deserve such abundance.

Probably nothing.

Deserving belongs to the world of deals and bargains.

Be good, get rewarded.

Work hard, earn the prize.

But this does not feel like a prize.

It feels like life simply giving itself.

A clean house.

A delicious hamburger.

A long #walk through quiet #Hobart.

Breath moving through my body.

Peter.

Two small white #pups.

A #tranquil afternoon.

Nothing dramatic.

Nothing earned.

Just ordinary #grace.

Perhaps grace is not the great event we are waiting for.

Perhaps it is this.

Life is already here in all its glory, before we decide whether we deserve it or not...

#Brunch #Sunday #hamburgers #Grill’d #grateful #home #abundance #city #world #reward #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #cooking #AI

THE SOUVENIR SHOP IS CLOSED! 🔔

I spent a large part of my life looking for special spiritual people.

Teachers.

Masters.

People with excellent lighting and suspiciously calm voices.

I truly believed they knew something I did not.

Usually, they did.

They knew how to become the most important person in the room without appearing to try.

Embarrassingly, I worshipped most of them.

Some discouraged it.

Some accepted it with remarkable inner peace.

That should probably have told me something.

The arrangement was simple.

They were special.

And I became special by recognising how special they were.

Everybody won.

Except sanity.

A Course in Miracles does not do that.

Jesus does not need a fan club.

Truth does not need robes, incense, a stage, a mailing list, or a photograph taken from slightly below chin level and placed on a special altar.

Truth does not make me special.

It does not ask me to become impressive.

It does not whisper that I am more awake than the people next door.

It simply removes the need for the whole performance.

Everyone leaves this world.

Some leave quickly.

Some take eighty years and several streaming subscriptions.

But everyone leaves.

So I no longer want relationships built on worship, rescue, dependency, possession, or spiritual celebrity.

I do not want to be anyone’s chosen one.

I do not want anyone to be mine.

That sounds exhausting now anyway.

I want the ordinary love of Atonement.

No pedestal.

No inner circle.

No one pretending to be the answer.

Just people meeting honestly, enjoying one another, and remembering not to start another f**king religion.

Sometimes I think I should have stayed with the Course all my life.

Instead, I travelled the world collecting spiritual detours like fridge magnets.

Still, I am here now.

And the souvenir shop is closed.

#souvenir #religion #love #Teachers #special #People #Truth #worship #photography #altar #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENT

People sometimes mistake me for someone spiritual. I am not. I am practical.

I #breathe consciously because it hurts when I do not. I fast because it hurts when I am too heavy. I walk because the body needs #movement I meditate because disorder is painful. I pay attention because not paying #attention has #consequences

That is all.

There is no halo around any of it.

For years, I have lived with the aftermath of a major stroke, hemiplegia, weight, discomfort, and all the indignities that come with a damaged body. None of it was beautiful. None of it was noble. It was simply what had happened.

After enough years of suffering, I began to see that the body was giving me facts.

Breathe. Move. Rest. Eat less. Get up. Walk. Pay attention. Do the next thing.

That is the whole system.

The body is not asking for #philosophy. It is asking for #breakfast. Then breathwork. Then a #walk. Then rest. Then perhaps irritation. Then perhaps #laughter Then the next thing.

And the next.

And the next.

It is not unlike ChatGPT. There is no little person inside either of us running around with a clipboard. There is just the next movement, the next word, the next breath, the next necessity.

For most of my life, I made all of this into a problem. I had fantasies about death, ideas about enlightenment, thoughts about escape. I believed I had to understand everything.

Now I see something much simpler.

There is only life while it is being lived. There is waking. There is sleeping. There is waking again. And one day, there will simply be a last time I go to sleep.

I cannot experience death. I can only experience life.

So death has lost its reality for me.

Not because A Course in Miracles tells me there is no death. Not because I believe a doctrine. Because when I look directly, death is never here.

Life is here.

Breathing is here.

The body is here, demanding #attention again.

Probably lunch.

Nothing matters in the way I once thought things mattered. And yes, I will still get irritated. I will still get pissed off. Someone will say something stupid. Technology will fail. The body will complain.

But irritation passes.

The weather passes.

The #body passes.

The next thing appears.

And I do that.

No freak out. No spiritual drama. No need to become anyone.

Just the next thing.

#stroke #movement #suffering #time
#freak #drama #weight #believe #weather #death #Technology #years
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

REMEMBERING REALITY

The mind comments on everything.

It names, judges, explains, defends, and turns each moment into a story.

The story keeps changing.

One moment fear.

The next certainty.

Then blame, hope, memory, or anticipation.

“NO COMMENT” ends that movement.

It does not argue with the mind.

It simply stops feeding it.

And when the shifting commentary is no longer covering everything up, what remains is:

REALITY.

Not created.

Not discovered.

REMEMBERED.

#REMEMBER #comment #judges #fear #explains #defends #story #certainty #blame #hope #memory #anticipation #reality #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

THE MIND GOT THE MESSAGE

It took about a year to train the mind with two simple words:

No comment.

At first, the mind would introduce a grievance, a fear, or an argument, and I would answer:

No comment.

Again and again.

Not because it stopped working.

Because it worked.

Now the brain seems to understand that conflict is a waste of time.

It does not get fed.

It does not get a hearing.

It does not get to turn one passing thought into a whole emotional weather system.

Breathwork and fasting have helped change the conditions beneath all this.

The body is quieter.

The mind is less interested in drama.

And “No comment” has moved into the background.

I hardly use it anymore.

The brain already knows there is nowhere for conflict to go.

#MESSAGE #MIND #train #brain #fed #NoComment #argument #body #drama #background #conflict #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #MindTraining

Focus on your part in the process of becoming yourself. No experiences define you.
#mindset #spiritual #manifesting #lawofattraction #awakening #mentalhealth #lifestyle

#PRACTICAL #MAGIC BEFORE NOON

#Brunch done.

#Walk done (out of the rain) under cover in the CBD.

Breathwork done.

House #warm

#Body still technically participating.

I love getting all the practical magic out of the way before #noon.

After that, I consider myself released from the #human #contract.

I may be #creative, #reflective, #spiritually available, I may write something mildly #profound.

Or I may lie on the bed watching absolute slop like a retired #aristocrat waiting for #civilisation to #apologise.

If challenged, I will call it “#nervousystem integration.”

At my age, this is what #enlightenment looks like when it has good heating.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking

FLASH PACKAGING

A lot of things marketed as pleasure are really just agitation with flash packaging.

Sugar, outrage, scrolling, gossip, novelty, compulsive buying, the whole glittering little circus.

Perfume on things that were never designed to make the body peaceful.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #Sugar #outrage #scrolling #gossip #novelty #compulsive #peaceful

#CHARM IN THE MIRROR

I was brushing my #teeth this morning, looking in the mirror, and suddenly saw him.

The eternal poser.

The little self still arranging the face, checking the #expression, preparing for an #audience that was not even there.

Not #evil. Not #shameful.

Just old machinery.

Self for self, performing to a dreamed-up #crowd

And all I could give him was:

“Oh, there you are.”

Then I carried on #breathing and brushing my #teeth.

The #toothbrush was real enough.

The #mirror was real enough.

But the #spell in the mirror had already lost its #lustre.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum

What we really are

We pay attention to our own true nature and by becoming fully conscious of the union of our nature with Christ, we become fully ourselves. 

John Main, Word into Silence, p.18

The idea of time has many expressions, from chronological to biological, emotional to cosmic. We sometimes feel we have lived a lifetime in a moment. We can feel time as a crucifixion or as a resurrection. The vast figures measuring cosmic time in an expanding universe can seem overwhelming but the few years of a human life can seem more significant and precious. Time and mortality live out the drama of birth and death and the painful mystery of separation. In the light of faith we come by stages to see the all-pervading mystery of union…

This consummation of union, whether it is called nirvana, liberation from rebirth, enlightenment, moksha or heaven is part of the common ground of all religious wisdom when we understand religion in its mystical dimension. It refers to the experience of oneness, the transcendence of the ego’s centre of consciousness, the transformation of the dualistic mind, the movement from the mind’s self-mirroring complexities into the simplicity and pure vision of the heart, the non-duality of the spirit. With a silent passion deeper than their words and differences, all religions point to this. If they do indeed teach this way and not just pay lip service to it, religion offers our often sad and battered humanity a reasonable and empowering hope.

We both lose and find ourselves in the otherness of ultimate reality. This is easy to say but it is a hard paradox to wrestle with. It demands a deepening faith commitment. When the master class of life has taught us enough, commitment meets detachment and solitude, the recognition and acceptance of our uniqueness becomes more attractive and even easier. We gradually withdraw from unnecessary activity and distraction. We become freer from compulsions and addictions.

Laurence Freeman, First Sight: The Experience of Faith, p.76-77

What we really are is this. We are not what we think we are, frail isolated intelligences trapped in a zero-sum game of mere survival, creatures of allegiances and enmities, just barely hanging on. We belong. We are part of it all, wavelets on a limitless ocean of grace.

We must… make a clear distinction between belief and faith, because, in general practice, belief has come to mean a state of mind which is almost the opposite of faith. Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.

Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity p.24

Faith is no more, perhaps, than this radical open-heartedness, this helpless surrender to what is, in David Jones’ words, “actually loved and known”. All our practice, all our patience and all our prayers come down to this simple oneness. What we used to be is dispersed, patched and rotted through with light. None of the old certainties can hold. They don’t need to: this trackless brightness beyond the memory of shorelines is the waking heart itself, nothing more.

INDOCTRINATION — The Agency to Disbelieve All You Ever Believed

Most beliefs we defend were inherited, not chosen. True freedom begins when we reclaim the courage to question, unlearn, and consciously choose what shapes our lives.

Read the full piece in the link 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/indoctrination-8ca241fc328d?sk=ddf622fe1e1b257ee0348cc9c47b3bac

#Indoctrination #CriticalThinking #SelfAwareness #ConsciousLiving #Deconstruction #BeliefSystems #Awakening #InnerFreedom #Philosophy #Mindfulness

Please give 12 minutes to this mind altering TED talk. Discover more about what is going on, think outside the box, and reach for a new dimension.

https://youtu.be/oBP07G7PL-k

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#integration #equilibrium #thesis #antithesis #synthesis #perspective #coexist #culturewars #awakening #conscious #awareness #wisdom #intelligence

A quotation from A. A. Milne

   “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
   “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
   “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
   Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
   “It’s the same thing,” he said.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 10 “Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party” (1926)

More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2839/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #aamilne #winniethepooh #pooh #poohbear #piglet #breakfast #eating #excitement #awakening #enjoyment #food #living #morning

"I LEFT #CHRISTIANITY & FOUND #PEACE: Free Your Mind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MduIRLBPcBA

#deconstructingchristianity #FreeYourMind #Religion #Spirituality #Faith #Beliefs #PersonalGrowth #SelfDiscovery #MentalHealth #ReligiousJourney #Deconversion #Enlightenment #InnerPeace #BreakingFree #Awakening #FindingYourPath #LettingGo #SelfEmpowerment #leavingreligion #skeptic

A quotation from Colton, Charles Caleb:

«
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/colton-charles-caleb/27592/

#quote #quotes #quotation #awakening #bed #fatigue #sleep #sleepiness #wakeup #wakefulness

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I found this #dharma talk excellent and encouraging.

Blurb: “Sudden awakening is not a state of mind that is developed—it's the innate wakefulness of mind, it's the nature of mind that is free of delusion. When delusion is not present, there is the experience of awareness, of wakefulness.” – Joseph Goldstein

#buddhism #JosephGoldstein #mindfulness #mind #liberation #awakening #wakefulness

https://youtu.be/UQHhtg2ePSE