Thoughts

Fear

The sky does not despise the clouds. The ocean doesn’t fear the waves. Fear in the mind is made of mind. With practice it behaves.

I wonder about the Chinese yin and yang. It may have more meaning than I ever thought. It may also have the meaning of emptiness. It seems that everything has an opposite. Even everything has nothing as an opposite. It seems as if an opposite is a requirement of existence. …

Pretty amazing

We are life itself and we are alive and we can see life and contemplate life which seems to make us pretty amazing.

Make every second count

Emptiness means: “No obscurations” or “nothing in the way of seeing” that all phenomena are interdependent in nature. Example: If the sky is “empty” of clouds than there is nothing in the way of seeing the sun. Emptying the mind means: Letting thoughts come and go without attaching to them. …

Consciousness

We are in the past, present, and future all at the same time. Since there is no such thing as time, past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Consciousness (life force) exists as an ever changing constant* rather than being affected by past, present, or future. Physical existence (life/death, atoms, molecules, …

All there is

“This is it”, or “this is all there is and there aint no more”, when referring to life, may sound like very negative statements. “You are it”, or “you are all there is and there is nobody else like you”, on the other hand sound like very positive statements. When …

Why are we here?

It seems to me that we chose to be here in this life for some purpose. I don’t have to know that purpose. It is probably better that I don’t. The way to accomplish that purpose without knowing is to live each moment not knowing, and not worrying that you …