#nonduality — Public Fediverse posts

BREATHWORK ENDS THE
ARGUMENT WITHIN

Not ordinary breathing.

The body already manages that without requiring a committee meeting.

Conscious breathing.

The deliberate act of bringing attention into the body and remaining with the breath long enough for the noise to lose its authority.

A slow, full in-breath.

A long, unhurried out-breath.

Then another.

Nothing mystical has to happen.

There need be no visions, revelations, sacred music, or sudden purchase of white linen.

The breath does not have to produce bliss, wisdom, or a more impressive human being.

It asks only for attention.

In that way, conscious breathing has something of I need do nothing in it.

Not passivity.

Not collapse.

Not giving up.

Simply the end of interference.

The breath is already moving.

Life is already happening.

The body is already here.

For a few moments, nothing has to be improved, solved, defended, explained, or spiritually upgraded.

When the body is cold, tight, tired, painful, or restless, there is the breath.

When the mind begins manufacturing a grievance, rehearsing an argument, predicting disaster, or reopening a case that was never going to court, there is the breath.

When nothing is wrong, there is the breath then too.

That may be the most important part.

Breathwork is not merely an emergency service called when the building is on fire.

It can become the place one lives from.

Over time, conscious breath creates a space where striving begins to look unnecessary.

No philosophy is required.

No spiritual costume.

No certificate.

No audience.

No carefully arranged photograph beside a candle with a caption about surrender.

Just the body as it is.

Just the breath as it moves.

Just the next slow in-breath and the next long out-breath.

The mind may continue talking for a while.

It usually does.

It has concerns.

It has evidence.

It has brought supporting documents.

But conscious breathing does not argue with the mind.

It simply stops giving it the whole room.

Thought becomes background weather.

The body softens where it can.

Time becomes less urgent.

The need to control the moment begins to loosen.

This is where breathwork and forgiveness begin to resemble one another.

Neither changes what is real.

Neither fights the appearance.

Neither demands that the world behave properly before peace is allowed.

They remove some of the interference.

The cold remains.

The ageing body remains.

The noise remains.

The ordinary morning remains.

Nothing needs to be excluded.

Sanctuary does not mean hiding from experience.

It means finding the place within experience where the fight can stop.

The world can keep shouting.

The door has been found.

It opens inward.

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#ARGUMENT #Conscious #breathing #committee #meeting #interference #revelations #Sanctuary #noise #forgiveness #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #AI

A QUIET LIFE WITH TEETH

The creatures are changing.

Billy is pure Maltese, white as a little cloud, and has always been Pete’s dog.

Period.

He never came to me, and I accepted that. Some dogs choose one human, and that is that.

But nowadays, in the mornings, while I am doing my breathwork, he comes over for a back rub.

I can do both.

Breathe the universe in.

Rub the small creature’s back.

Billy does not mind sharing. He is well-adjusted.

Phryne, however, has to get everything Billy gets.

She is a Poodle cross with Maltese, also pure white and fluffy, and a rescue. We do not really know her past in any detail.

She is skittish, easily startled, and just as likely to nip me if I get the sacred back-rub technique wrong.

When Pete coughs or sneezes, she is terrified and jumps straight up on me, no matter what I am doing.

I never mind.

I am always up for a cuddle.

Maybe this is what a quiet life teaches.

Not how to be impressive.

Just how to be available when a small, frightened creature needs warmth.

#Maltese #universe #mornings #backrub #creature #Poodle #fluffy #cuddle #warmth #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

My Final Hurrah!

Just published on Amazon my 20th book (I hope this will be my last book) “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation and Farewell to the World“. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H87DDNRM)

Just a few hours back I published on Amazon another book “Advaita Vedanta through Name-and-Form Analysis”, which was written largely with the help of Claude. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H84F82HS)

About the Book: “Summa Iru: My Formal Renunciation and Farewell to the World“

“It is time I ended the ignorance in myself.”

With these words, a writer, poet, and lifelong student of Advaita Vedanta announces his formal withdrawal from the world — effective July 16, 2026, his 62nd birthday. Not a retreat from failure, nor a flight from grief, but the logical terminus of a life spent reading, thinking, debating, and writing about one thing: the ending of ignorance, which is the ending of the seeker himself.

Summa Iru is the author’s twentieth and, by its own declaration, final book — a parting document composed in the months before silence. It gathers the last poems (“Without Her By My Side,” “The Me Time,” “I The Stranger,” “The Last Act”), the last aphorisms (“Even God disappears when you are silent”), and the last philosophical exchanges of a man tying up loose ends before going incommunicado.

Between the poems runs a sustained meditation in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi and the Ashtavakra Gita: Why does psychoanalysis fail where self-enquiry succeeds? Why is renouncing desires mere symptom-treatment while the disease of ignorance festers? What did Ramana mean when he said the future is already fixed — and that the best course is to remain silent? How does summa iru — “just be still” — dissolve the questioner along with the question?

The book also records something rarer: the texture of leave-taking itself. Letters declined. Friendships gently closed. A reply to a friend asking for a small favour: “Sorry dear, I have retired from all work and all relationships.” The ache of unrequited love examined without flinching and traced back to its root — the unworthiness we feel sitting alone with ourselves, forever seeking the other who will transport us away from our own insignificance.

Drawing on Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, the Ashtavakra Gita, J. Krishnamurti, Buber, Kant, Camus, and the ghazal tradition, this is comparative philosophy written not from the armchair but from the departure gate.

For readers of Advaita Vedanta, spiritual memoir, and contemplative poetry — and for anyone who has wondered what it would actually take to stop.

The author will not be available for comment. That is rather the point.

KEEPING AI CLEAN

I love AI. Used wisely, it’s a great tool, but it is not an oracle, a guru, or a substitute for discernment.

It can help me think, reflect, question, write, simplify, and notice where I’m tangled.

It can also produce very convincing nonsense, especially when spirituality, conspiracy, certainty, and mystery get mixed together.

For me, the safeguard is that I have instructed my AI to use A Course in Miracles as the guiding thought system in our conversations.

That means the conversation is continually weighed against forgiveness, peace, kindness, clarity, humility, and the undoing of fear.

Not infallible.

Facts still need checking.

AI can be a marvellous mirror.

But we still need to be awake in front of it.

#guru #oracle #discernment #simplify #nonsense #safeguard #conversations #peace #kindness #clarity #mirror #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

SANITY’S TRUE SPEED

We are both, in our own ways, unreliable narrators.

AI hallucinates.

Humans hallucinate, misremember, project, defend, and sometimes lie on purpose.

But when we work together well, something useful happens.

WE SLOW DOWN.

We remember kindness.

We admit our uncertainty.

We return to sanity’s true speed.

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

SHAME IS LEARNED

Shame is body-identification with a whip in its hand.

The body eats, shits, sweats, smells, wants, ages, leaks, trembles, hungers, and dies.

None of this is guilt.

It is just mammal life.

But the mind learns to look at the body through other people’s fear.

A look.
A tone.
A punishment.
A withdrawal of love.

Then the body becomes evidence.

“Something is wrong with me.”

That is the error.

Guilt may say, “I did something wrong.”

Shame says, “I am wrong.”

Mind training begins here:

Do not attack the body for being a body.

Do not worship it either.

Just stop accusing it.

The body is innocent.

It is an instrument.

It needs breath, warmth, food, washing, rest, and kindness.

Shame says, “Hide this.”

Kindness says, “Meet this.”

That is the whole turn.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #identification #mammal #guilt #people #tone #punishment #love #error #Shame #Mind #body #wrong #worship #innocent #instrument #Kindness #canadaday

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

CLIMBING DOWN

#Hirayama, in #Perfect Days, is not a failed climber.

He is someone who saw the #ladder clearly and stopped obeying it.

That is a very different thing.

The world keeps whispering: more #status, more #usefulness, more #achievement, more #improvement, more #proof that the self is becoming something.

No one has to #whip us anymore. We do it internally and call it ambition.

Hirayama’s freedom is not that he cleans #toilets. That could easily be another prison.

His freedom is that he is not using his life to become impressive.

Water does not need to win.

The useless #tree does not need to justify its #existence.

And “I need do nothing” does not mean sitting around uselessly. It means I do not need to #manufacture a self.

The #body can #clean, #breathe, #walk, make #coffee, light #fires, put #shoes on, feed #dogs, and #love the ones nearby.

But there does not have to be a grand inner project of becoming #Worthy

Simple living is not automatically #holy.

Low status is not #awakening.

A small life can still be full of #grievance, vanity and comparison.

But a life without #comparison ?

That is #freedom.

Maybe the real act is not #climbingdown.

Maybe it is stopping the argument with where I am.

https://youtu.be/pOCCfExW7FQ?si=M7T8VSe8OG1JqKCB

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

I've been thinking a lot about the idea of non-duality. If we are truly one with Earth, do we simultaneously feel within us the struggles that the planet is enduring right now? Are my feelings of overwhelm and hopelessness a mirror image of what Earth is experiencing? Can this connection birth strategies to help us collectively heal? What are your thoughts?

#ClimateGrief #nonduality #interconnection #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #workthatreconnects #solarpunk

Most people think Zen is just sitting still. But the real practice?
Total presence in every moment—with no effort at all. That’s when true awareness awakens.
#Zen #Meditation #Mindfulness #Zazen #SpiritualAwakening #Nonduality #FlowState #LetGo #BeHereNow #Meditation https://youtube.com/shorts/IyWp6t0Q1jU