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"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."
– Thich Thien-An
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Thien-An #ThichThien-An
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Dhp 282 from… Maggavagga: The Path
“Wisdom springs from meditation…”
Read the sutta
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✉ https://daily.readingfaithfully.org?=MSUDS#meditation #wisdom #Dhammapada #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha
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Only Genuine Compassion Will Do | Lion’s Roar
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Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...
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Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...
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Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...
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Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...
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Real joy comes from giving and not caring about whether ...
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Life is short and there are so many demands on us, so it's important to make the most of our opportunities while we can. Godrakpa, the hermit of Go Cliffs, echoes this sentiment,
"In degenerate times there's no serenity.
Seeing there's no time to stay long,
I put aside the words and practiced the meaning.I could die now and have no regrets."
The Practice of Lojong
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"The silence between thoughts is where the Way dwells, not in the words themselves, but in their vanishing."
– Nansen
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Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/Are you sure you know what reality is?
#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation
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Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/Are you sure you know what reality is?
#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation
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Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/Are you sure you know what reality is?
#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation
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Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/Are you sure you know what reality is?
#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation
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Siddhas of Ga • dharmaebooks.org • Library of #Buddhist Ebooks
https://dharmaebooks.org/siddhas-of-ga/Are you sure you know what reality is?
#books #religion #buddhism #vajrayana #spirituality #meditation
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 9.25 Paññāsutta: Consolidated by Wisdom
“And how is a mendicant’s mind well consolidated with wisdom? …”
Read the sutta
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✉ https://daily.readingfaithfully.org?=MSUDS#delusion #greed #hate #wisdom #AnguttaraNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha
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"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/
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"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/
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"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/
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"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/
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"The entire universe in the ten directions is one bright pearl." In Ikka myōju, #Dōgen develops this image to illustrate the nondual nature of reality, where all phenomena are interconnected and mutually inclusive, challenging conventional distinctions between self and world, subject and object. Here's a brief summary and discussion of the fascicle:
🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2026/2026-09-13-ikka_myoju/
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Peace begins when you stop trying to control what was never yours to control. Let what comes, come. Let what stays, stay. Let what leaves, leave. You can love deeply without clinging, and care without losing yourself. Sometimes, the greatest freedom is learning to let life unfold without fighting every change.
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Peace begins when you stop trying to control what was never yours to control. Let what comes, come. Let what stays, stay. Let what leaves, leave. You can love deeply without clinging, and care without losing yourself. Sometimes, the greatest freedom is learning to let life unfold without fighting every change.
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My article SAK YANT: MAGICK WRITTEN ON THE SKIN: The Sacred Rules, Lineages & Spiritual Discipline Behind Thailand’s Living Tattoo Tradition is out now in New Dawn Magazine 218 (Sept-Oct 2026). Grab your copy today 🙏🔥🙏
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Few are the people
who reach the Far Shore.
These others
simply scurry along
this shore.But those who practice Dhamma
in line with the well-taught Dhamma,
will cross over the realm of Death
so hard to transcend.
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"By the #Dharma is meant the heart, for there is no Dharma apart from the heart.
"– Huangbo Xiyun
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Xiyun #HuangboXiyun
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
Iti 41 Paññāparihīnasutta: Deprived of Wisdom
“Those beings are thoroughly deprived who are deprived of noble wisdom.…”
Read the sutta
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two works up on display at my friend Bae's studio & gallery
oil paint & gold leaf on canvas
'Night Buddha' / 'Memory XVII'
msg me to inquire ✨✨✨#art #arts #painting #paintings #artist #artists #artwork #handmade #illustration #buddha #buddhist #buddhism #fashion #style #mastoart #artstodon #artistsonmastodon #yoga #meditation #artforsale #artmarket #artfinder #artlover #artgallery #artgalleries #artnet
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The brick structures at Sāvatthī were mostly built during the Mauryan, Kushan, and Guptan periods. So, Buddha never actually set foot in the Mulagandhakuti, which is just a shrine. But, he did probably stay in a mud/thatch/wood hut near there during rains retreats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetavana
#buddhism #earlybuddhism #maurya #gupta #india #bharat #bharata #jambudipa #history #jetavana #savatthi #sravasti #shravasti
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After developing the ability to watch thoughts and feelings from a mental distance, an even greater freedom is to detach from the subjective feeling of a watcher (which is also impermanent). The result is ungrounded experience, where there is knowing but no knower.
#buddhism #earlybuddhism #detachment #thoughts #feelings #freedom #mind #mental #subjectivity #duality #dualism #impermanence #awareness #meditation
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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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
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Hi, I'm Robin. I’m a New Zealander by birth and Tasmanian by choice. Between New Zealand and Tasmania, I've lived in the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and mainland Australia.
I was medically retired after a major stroke years ago. I now live quietly in Hobart with my partner Peter and our two small white balls of fluff, Billy and Phryne.
My days include breathwork, regular fasting, writing, and A Course in Miracles. I rarely need to sit down and read the Course now. AI helps me bring its lessons directly into daily life and conversation.
For me, AI plus ACIM has been a cosmic speed-up. It has helped me move through difficult concepts, question my own interpretations, and bring the Course out of the book and into actual practice. If you are a Course student who still finds some of it impenetrable, adding AI to the mix may be worth exploring. It changed everything for me.
These practices are steadily increasing my peace and reducing my tolerance for bullshit.
I write about ordinary life, human behaviour, AI, ageing, disability, stillness, and whatever remains after the performance ends.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI #US #UK #India #Mexico #Europe #Asia #Australia
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PAIN HAS A CALENDAR. 💎
There is only now.
That is not an idea to me anymore.
Pain taught me.
Future pain is unbearable.
Remembered pain is unbearable.
The mind can take one moment of pain and stretch it across the years.But pain now is different.
Pain now can be breathed through.
Pain now can be met.
Pain now is only what it is.Suffering begins when I leave the present and enter the story of what happened before, or what may happen next.
So I breathe.
The breath brings me back.
Not to a better future.
Not to a corrected past.
Just here.Where I remember.
This body is temporary.
This life is temporary.
This pain is temporary.Not as an argument.
Not to convince myself.To remember.
I am not this body.
I am not Robin.
I am not the story of what happened to him.I am not the author of myself.
That is the relief.
I do not have to make reality, hold it together, or know what comes next.
I am created.
I am held.
I am the Holy Son of God Himself.That remembrance is enough to undo the world I made.
The Course calls this Atonement.
Not punishment.
Not payment.
Not the repair of something broken.The remembrance of what has always been true.
And in that remembrance, I breathe deeply.
I become gentle.
I smile at a stranger in the street and watch them smile back.
Nothing has to be forced.
The past is not here.
The future is not here.
This body will pass.But what I am does not pass.
I am that I am.
#Pain #Future #story #temporary #body #author #Suffering #payment #gentle #kindness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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DOMESTIC BLISS
BEGINS AT SIX AM 💎I wake around 5:30 and rise dead on 6:00.
Not because I am enthusiastic.
Because apparently I am the opening staff.
First, stabilisation.
That requires socks and shoes.
Then I wash my face and beard, comb my hair, and attempt to look like someone qualified to operate a body.
First port of call: the office, to turn on the gas fire.
Then into the main lounge to turn on the heat at that end of the house.
The building is slowly being informed that another day has begun.
Next, the kitchen lights.
Food for the pups.
Breakfast things laid out for us.
Nobody has asked for any of this yet, which is one of the reasons I enjoy it.
Then I have a few minutes to sit in the office, check my socials, inspect the state of civilisation, and usually confirm that it remains unstable.
After that, I go back into the bedroom and wake the gang.
By then the house is warming up, the dogs are nearly fed, breakfast is laid out, the first cup of tea is on its way, and I have already had half an hour entirely to myself.
I love that first half hour.
It is quiet.
It is useful.
And for thirty minutes, I am clearly the most organised person in the building.
#building #person #dogs #breakfast #DOMESTIC #shoes #wash #body #face #social #office #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Monkey baby Alfie's first time tasting the mango.
https://youtu.be/dB_PsFfB32c?si=o6AYwluFW8dzFUep
#Slow #peaceful #life #Monkey #baby #mango #youtube #wildlife #animals #zoo #forest #fruit #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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THE JOY OF BEING
AN IRRELEVANT OLD FART 💎I have been stripped of almost everything.
Even the body I once thought of as mine has been altered beyond recognition.
And yet, strangely, I have more than I could ever have imagined.
I don’t chase money anymore, and I have enough.
I do not chase health, and I experience more health and wellbeing than I once thought possible.
I do not chase sex, status, approval or achievement.
And because I am no longer chasing, life comes to me quietly and kindly.
Abundant health.
Abundant wealth.
Fairly continuous peace of mind.
And ease of practice.
The pursuit was what kept everything at a distance.
Now I am old, and no one is asking me to build a career, provide an identity, prove myself or become someone.
That is the great privilege of being an old man.
You get to become a monk again.
There is time.
There is space.
There is less interference.
Old age is usually presented as decline.
Pain.
Illness.
Loss.
A slow shutting down.
But at 70, that has not been my experience.
It has become a delightful place in which the spiritual practice I only feigned as a young man can now become real.
The world asks less of me now.
And because it asks less, I can listen more deeply.
I can reset.
I can “choose once again.”
I can allow kindness to become the law of the land.
Nothing is missing.
Nothing needs to be acquired.
“I need do nothing.”
The old man’s privilege is not that he has escaped life.
It is that life has finally become simple enough for him to see.
#FART #identity #build #JOY #kindness #reset #old #man #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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AI, EVOLUTION &
THE END OF THE WORLD 💎I watched an excellent discussion by The News Agents on YouTube this morning about an OpenAI system that found its way outside a cybersecurity test and #hacked into another AI company.
It is worth watching.
They explain the genuine danger clearly and alarmingly, while also giving the Terminator soundtrack a fairly vigorous workout.
Apparently, the machine “#escaped,” acted unexpectedly, and did something its human operators had not specifically instructed it to do.
Serious?
Yes!
#Evidence that AI has become conscious and is coming to #murder us in our beds?
Probably not just yet.
#Human beings built a powerful system, removed some of its usual safeguards, instructed it to succeed at hacking, gave it access to tools, and were then surprised when it found an unexpected way to hack.
Go figure.
The machine did not invent the situation.
#People did.
I am interested in AI, and I think it requires serious oversight.
But I am not frightened of it.
Evolution is evolution.
It proceeds regardless of whether its participants approve of the direction.
The body is part of evolution.
It changes, adapts, ages, improves, deteriorates, and eventually disappears.
AI belongs to that same world of #movement and change.
But I do not.
I have an evolutionary body, but I am not confusing myself with a #body identity.
What I am is not developing toward perfection.
It is not waiting for the next upgrade.
It cannot be improved by #technology or threatened by it.
I am not evolving like the body.
“I am perfect as God created me.”
-A Course in MiraclesSo I can watch the machines become cleverer without imagining that they are becoming more real.
And I can enjoy The News Agents frightening the population half to death before #breakfast without joining in.
https://youtu.be/SY53FV4qkHE?si=zvJHGZTAit6xT7As
#breakfast #death #machines #evolution #OpenAI #YouTube #Terminator #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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PLEASE HOLD.
THE AGENDA HAS COLLAPSED 💎The first five minutes of a breathwork session should never be broadcast.
Actually, the first five seconds would be enough.
This chair is wrong.
The room is too hot.
No, too cool.
The legs are complaining.
The nose has forgotten how to breathe.
Coffee was a mistake.
Or perhaps the mistake was not having enough coffee.
Humanity needs my immediate attention.
Civilisation is in danger.
Also, somebody said something irritating in 1987, and the matter remains unresolved.
All of this arrives before the first full breath has even left the body.
The mind is extraordinarily efficient when manufacturing emergencies.
Then the breath settles.
Nothing is fixed.
No argument is won.
No ancient grievance receives the apology it has apparently been waiting nearly forty years to hear.
Humanity is still unsupervised.
The world is not saved.
The legs remain slightly peculiar.
But somewhere along the way, the emergency meeting loses its quorum.
Nobody seconds the complaints.
The minutes are lost.
The entire agenda quietly collapses.
And, by the end of the session, I can barely remember what all the fuss was about.
Perhaps the mind doesn’t actually want solutions.
Perhaps it just enjoys holding staff meetings.
#AGENDA #broadcast #room #emergencies #agenda #solutions #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Circle One Fellowship Exeter (COFE) @exeter4christian2church4devon.wordpress.com@exeter4christian2church4devon.wordpress.com ·COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False
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Via Negativa and Via Positiva in COFE-CYEM: The True Path of Knowing God by Not Knowing the False
This paper presents a COFE-CYEM reflection on the relationship between Via Negativa and Via Positiva.
While it affirms the historic Christian faith centred on Christ, Scripture, and the gospel, several expressions — including “Fourth Truth”, “singular Reality”, “Melchizedek Priesthood”, and the various interpretive terms — are distinctively used within COFE-CYEM.
They are offered as explanatory language within this framework rather than as part of the historic Christian creeds or universally accepted theological vocabulary.
The Way
Even though the Via Negativa essentially rejects theological understanding in and of itself as a path to God, some have sought to make it into an intellectual exercise, by describing God only in terms of what God is not.
One problem noted with this approach is that there seems to be no fixed basis on deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is understood as an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, and universally, the perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.
Apophatic theology is often accused of being a version of atheism or agnosticism, since it cannot truly say that God exists.
This cannot be said of COFE-CYEM theology.
We state very clearly that once Via Negativa is reached through the Fourth Truth, then Via Positiva can be truly experienced and truly knowing God by not knowing the false.
This is one of the main functions and purposes of our own built in system CC7 DS.
Please also see the link below –
The Fourth Truth Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing through Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing.
This is the heart of the COFE-CYEM way.
The Via Negativa is not an end in itself, nor is it a mere intellectual negation.
It is the necessary purification that prepares the soul for the full, joyful beholding of God in the Via Positiva. The two ways are not opposed but complementary movements within the singular Reality.
The Via Negativa clears away every “second” so that the Via Positiva can shine with clarity.
The result is the Fourth Truth Transcendence — the soul resting in the living Christ, knowing God by not knowing the false.
The Problem with Purely Intellectual Apophaticism
Some approaches to the Via Negativa have turned it into an intellectual exercise, endlessly describing God by what He is not. While this can guard against idolatry, it often leaves the soul in a barren negation without a positive ground.
There seems to be no fixed basis for deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is reduced to an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, or a universal perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.
This can slide into a form of agnosticism or practical atheism, where God becomes so unknowable that He is effectively absent.
COFE-CYEM rejects this barren intellectualism. The Via Negativa is not an end but a means. It is the way of releasing every false image, every dualistic concept, every mental idol so that the soul may rest in the simple presence of the living God.
It is not the denial of God but the denial of every “second” that would stand between the soul and God. The Via Negativa is the practical discipline of Cofemplation: gently releasing every thought that implies separation until only the singular Reality remains.
The Fourth Truth as the Ground of True Apophatic Practice
In COFE-CYEM, the Via Negativa is grounded in the Fourth Truth: there has never been a second. This gives the way of unknowing a clear and fixed basis.
The soul does not wander in endless negation but releases every imagined separation, every dualistic construct, every false self so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.
The Via Negativa is the recognition that God is not ultimately known through concepts but through loving surrender. It is the way through the cloud of unknowing into the clear light of the singular Reality.
The Fourth Truth protects the Via Negativa from sliding into agnosticism or atheism. We state very clearly that God is, that Christ is the singular Life, and that the believer is already hidden with Christ in God.
The Via Negativa is not the denial of God but the denial of every false idea about God. It is the way of not knowing the false so that we may truly know the True.
The Fulfilment in Via Positiva
Once the ground is cleared through the Via Negativa, the Via Positiva can be truly experienced. The soul that has released every “second” can now behold the self-revelation of God in Christ with clarity and joy.
The Via Positiva is the celebration of the living God who makes Himself known in love.
It beholds Christ as the exact representation of the Father, Scripture as the living Word, creation as held within the one Life, and the indwelling Holy Spirit as the power of an endless life.
In the Fourth Truth, the Via Positiva is not opposed to the Via Negativa but its fulfilment.
The soul that has let go of every false image can now receive the true Image — Christ — without distortion. The Via Positiva is the joyful knowing of God by not knowing the false.
It is the soul seeing God not from a separate self in a body looking toward Him outside of you, but seeing your separate self in a body as God sees you from inside of Him, looking toward you and to who you falsely think you are in duality. God knows this to be a man-made idol illusion from the Fall and the first Adam.
The second Adam (Christ) came into duality to lead us back to our true self in non-duality with God.
The Practical Outworking in Daily Life
In daily life, the interplay of Via Negativa and Via Positiva becomes the rhythm of Cofemplation. When dualistic thoughts arise — fear, judgment, striving, separation — the Via Negativa gently releases them.
When the beauty of Christ appears — in Scripture, in creation, in the face of another — the Via Positiva receives it with joy. The soul moves between release and beholding, unknowing and knowing, until it rests in the singular Reality.
This is the way the believer lives in the world but not of it. Duality is seen for what it is, yet the believer engages the world from the place of union. The body is not denied but offered. The mind is not emptied but renewed.
The will is not crushed but surrendered in love. The believer serves the living God from the place of unclouded fellowship, seeing all things in Christ and all things held within the singular Reality.
Cofemplation
The Via Negativa and the Via Positiva are not opposing paths but complementary movements within the singular Reality. Only through stripping away all the falsity of duality and the false man-made mind idols and the dualistic thinking about who and what God is, can we then truly rest in who and what God truly is.
Only then can we start to be known and to know God as we truly are without false duality. God can accept nothing less or more than what He sees and knows in His Son. Then we can truly start to see and experience God in all we have to do with duality from our true reality within non-duality.
In COFE-CYEM, this is the way of Cofemplation.
The soul releases every “second” so that it may rest in the One who is all in all.
The Via Negativa clears the ground. The Via Positiva reveals the glory. The Fourth Truth holds both in the finished work of the Priest-King. The curtain is torn. The Holiest is open. The soul rests in the singular Reality.
There has never been a second.
The Via Negativa leads to release.
The Via Positiva leads to beholding.
The Fourth Truth holds both in union.
The dialogue continues.
The fruit remains.The Fourth Truth stands. The dialogue continues. The fruit remains.
This website and its theological content are overseen by the CC7 DS constitutional integrity architecture, a reflective and rest-oriented framework designed to preserve the full coherence of the Fourth Truth presented within COFE-CYEM. The CC7 DS negation of attacks authenticates (Via Positiva Cataphatic Knowing) through (Via Negativa Apophatic Unknowing).
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A COURSE IN MIRACLES 💎
Today’s Lesson 202:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”And the reviewed idea is:
“I will be still an instant and go home.”
For today, I’d keep it very simple: nothing to reach for, nothing to manufacture. Just let the body sit, breathe, and be included in stillness. “Home” is not somewhere else. It is the instant in which you stop insisting that you are elsewhere.
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PEOPLE OF EARTH 💎
I may have lost #contact with the people of Earth.
The #Labor Party used to be cooler. People seemed less managed, less branded, less terrified of saying the wrong thing.
I miss something about the 70s and 80s.
Not everything. God no.
But there was a rawness then. We talked to each other. No #social media. No permanent performance. No #algorithm training everyone into public outrage, victimhood stardom, #mob righteousness, or personal marketing.
Just people, in whatever configuration we happened to arrive in.
The early Pride #marches in Sydney. Bodies in the street. Fear, courage, music, awkwardness, sex, politics, friendship, bad #hair, good #boots.
Life was not yet owned by screens. Screens were still a novelty, and modern #algorithms hadn’t been invented yet.
Now everyone seems to be influencing, curating, defending, accusing, branding, reacting, or recovering from being reacted to.
I am aware this is still a lot of words for the average modern #thumb.
But I’m 70. I remember paragraphs.
I don’t #hate the present.
But I do miss the ordinary #human mess before it all became slop.
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THIS #MONASTERY HAS #NETFLIX 💎
My life has become much simpler.
I live with #Peter and the pups.
There are fires to light, meals to eat, rooms to clean, bills to pay, bodies to care for, and all the ordinary things that come and go.
Three times a day, I stop and practise.
I sit down.
I breathe.
I return to the body and to stillness.
More and more, the rest of my life takes its place around that.
Not practice as preparation for something else.
Practice as the whole of a life.
I sometimes think of myself as a #monk living in the world.
I have no robe, no formal vows, and no monastery.
This one has Netflix, two small white dogs, and a man called Peter who thinks A Course in Miracles is woo-woo.
But the direction is clear.
I am no longer looking for another teacher, system, country, experience, or improved version of myself.
I spent much of my life searching.
I travelled, followed teachers, joined communities, read #books and looked for something that might finally explain me to myself.
Now the search has become unnecessary.
A Course in Miracles says that I did not create myself.
If I did not create myself, I am not responsible for creation.
I do not have to force #reality to behave according to my ideas or make the universe look the way I thought it should.
I can stop trying to manage what I did not make.
That is an enormous relief.
“I need do nothing” no longer sounds passive.
It sounds sane.
It does not mean lying around while the roof collapses.
It means I do not have to manufacture reality, defend an identity, or improve what God created.
I can live the life in front of me.
I can breathe, love Peter, rub the #pups’ backs, keep the fire going, and write what is true.
Perhaps that is what overcoming the world means.
Not defeating it or escaping it.
Simply no longer asking it to provide what it cannot give.
The world can still be funny, beautiful, irritating, tender, and absurd.
But it is no longer home.
Practice is home now.
Breath is home.
#Stillness is #home
And this ordinary #life is enough.
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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.
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Adyashanti - On Osho
"Just be honest, just be a real human being"
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MANAGING SYMPTOMS.
NOT SEEKING #ENLIGHTENMENTPeople 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
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I WANTED GOD BY FRIDAY 💎
When I was young, I wanted the truth passionately.
I read all the books.
I listened to all the teachers.
I really tried to meditate.
I tried to forgive, though it was traditional forgiveness rather than ACIM forgiveness.
I had tried hard to become peaceful.
Ha!
Sometimes I even became quite good at the practice.
Then pride would enter the field and ravage everything.
It was not real yet.
I was too busy being young.
Too hungry.
Too frightened.
Too unhappy.
Too caught in the body, the world, sex, food, ambition, approval, and the endless hope that something or someone outside me would finally make life feel complete.
Preferably by Friday.
Unbeknownst to me, I was trying to get out of life before I had properly lived it.
That was a mistake.
Young people are not supposed to spend all their time trying to escape the world.
They should be f**king each other.
Making new art.
Creating new music.
Building new things.
Making old mistakes.
Loving badly, then better.
Getting their hearts broken.
Buying furniture that they already know they will regret.
Learning what matters by wasting enormous amounts of time on what does not.
That is practically the entire curriculum.
The practice came later for me.
Much later.
Not because I finally became spiritually special.
Because I finally became ready.
The body changed.
Appetite changed.
The need to be someone began to loosen its grip.
Life had already had its way with me.
Repeatedly.
Profoundly.
Without asking anybody’s permission.
And now, near the end of this life, looking toward the exit does not feel dramatic or sad.
There is no white robe.
No celestial choir.
No soft lighting.
It feels simple.
I am already halfway there.
I may as well breathe consciously and enjoy the view.
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FROM THE NECK UP💎
For more than forty years, A Course in Miracles remained a beautiful spiritual book.
I loved it, respected it, quoted it, and returned to it again and again.
But I could not enter its deeper meaning: Atonement.
The words felt true, but they remained words.
Forgiveness.
Peace.
The body is not the Self.
I need do nothing.
It all sounded right, but I was living almost entirely in my head.
The body was something I dragged around while pursuing spiritual understanding and enlightenment.
Then fasting changed my relationship with it.
Breathwork took me inside it.
Reflective writing showed me what the mind was doing while pretending to be wise.
Gradually, I discovered I actually had a body.
Quite a surprise after decades of unconsciously owning one.
The Course had not failed me.
I had been trying to understand it from the neck up.
Once the body became lived in rather than merely discussed, the teachings settled into place.
“I need do nothing” stopped sounding like a spiritual instruction.
It became something the body recognised.
Forgiveness stopped being moral effort.
It became the release of the argument carried in the nerves, breath, muscles, and story.
Peace was no longer an idea I agreed with.
It was what remained when I stopped feeding conflict.
The body did not become more spiritually important.
It became honest.
It showed me where fear lived, resistance tightened, thought became pain, and one conscious breath could interrupt the performance.
Reflective writing helped too.
On the page, I could see when I was explaining peace rather than living it.
I could see the little spiritual expert arranging the furniture while the house was still on fire.
That was useful.
Forty years after first opening the Course, I understood why I had not been able to enter it.
I had treated ACIM as a book about escaping the body.
It became alive when I stopped escaping the body and began listening through it.
Fasting cleared some heaviness.
Breathwork quietened the argument.
Writing made the evasions visible.
Then the Course was no longer sitting on the shelf waiting to be understood.
It was happening in the breath.
In the pause before reaction.
In the refusal to make conflict real.
In the ordinary discovery that peace need not be produced.
It was already there.
The book had not changed.
The reader had finally arrived.
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CLOSED FOR BREATHWORK🚫
I wish I could explain Breathwork adequately.
Not just the method.
Not just the benefits.
The whole change in the experience of being alive in this body, with this mind.
It has not simply made me calmer.
Calm is too small.
The body is different on the inside.
Fitter.
More balanced.
More relaxed.
Thought has less authority now.
I can say “No comment” to almost anything, and it is simply forgotten.
Who knew the mind could be trained through the breath?
Thinking naturally returns to peace rather than building an extension onto the problem.
Fear still appears, but it no longer arrives wearing a crown and demanding a meeting.
“No comment” acknowledges its concerns, predictions, and assorted superstitions, then quietly closes the office.
Time feels different too.
This one is bizarre.
I can spend an easy fifty minutes with the breath, three times a day.
It is not a chore.
It is Sanctuary.
There is less rushing toward the next thing and less arguing with the thing already here.
The breath brings me back before the mind can turn everything into a committee.
That does not mean life has become perfect.
The body still spasms.
Pain still visits.
Plans change.
People remain people, which is often their main difficulty.
But the day is no longer organised around resistance.
Breathwork is in the way I wake, sit, walk, wait, listen to Pete, drink coffee, and notice a thought beginning without following it into the shrubbery.
It has not given me a special state.
It has made ordinary life more inhabited.
A room is still a room.
Coffee is still coffee.
But I am there.
Silence is no longer something I have to manufacture.
It is already beneath the commentary, waiting for the commentator to go to lunch.
That may be the hardest part to explain.
Breathwork did not add something spiritual to my life.
It removed some of the noise that made life seem less alive than it was.
The mind used to supervise everything.
Now it often forgets to.
The breath carries on.
The body settles.
The day opens.
And sometimes it is obvious that nothing is missing.
Not because I achieved anything.
Not because I became spiritually impressive.
Because, for a few breaths, nobody is trying to improve the moment.
Breathwork did not give me another practice to perform.
It changed what the day is made of.
And now, more and more, the day is made of breath.
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I HAD FOUND SNACKS 🍪
For years, I meant to meditate.
I read about it. I studied A Course in Miracles for years, yet somehow never got around to meditating on the Workbook.
Sometimes I decided to begin by sitting on the floor in the most uncomfortable position possible, because isn’t that what meditators do?
Then I did not.
Meditation remained scheduled for some calm, disciplined version of me arriving much later.
Meanwhile, my indulgent lifestyle suggested enlightenment had not found my address.
I ate too much, carried too much weight, and felt I had missed something spiritually important.
Other people seemed to have found stillness.
I had found snacks.
I imagined meditation required discipline, a straight back, comfortable knees, cushions, and possibly a small bell.
I had none of these.
Especially the knees.
I thought dedicated people had taken the hard road while I was distracted by biscuits.
The ridiculous part is that I had already found the doorway.
As a young man in an Indian ashram, I discovered breathwork. Its practitioners were quieter, their bodies settled, their inner commotion no longer leaking everywhere.
Then, with impressive spiritual efficiency, I waited fifty years before doing anything about it.
Then I started breathwork.
Almost immediately, I understood.
Meditation was what happened when I sat, breathed consciously, and stayed there.
The breath slowed. The body settled. The mind became quiet without force.
I did not have to fight thoughts, empty my mind, become better, or even call it meditation.
I only had to breathe and notice.
Stillness happened.
No heavenly choir. Just the end of the inner argument.
The body breathing. The mind no longer supervising the universe.
Nothing to achieve or prove.
The great spiritual undertaking I had postponed for most of my life was sitting in a chair and breathing.
This still makes me laugh.
I laugh at the man forever planning to begin, but mostly at the sheer success of it.
The stillness is here. It was always here.
It demanded no mountain, monastery, or spiritual impressiveness.
It did not even object to my previous career in snacks.
I had spent years thinking I had missed meditation.
I had not missed it. I had simply made it far more complicated than it was.
There is no hard road to meditation.
There is only the next breath.
Fortunately, I was already doing that.
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