Zero is infinity

I had some long winded path to a beautiful conclusion but forgetting both leaves me with just this one remanence that emerged mid flow someway towards the early middle.

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Zen Crossword Puzzle

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Zen Birthday Card

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Willie Nelsons Tao

This book Tao Willie Tao Happiness Heart

Is available as an Audio book

It is a very nice listen (I particularly recommend it to The Rambling Taoist).

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Nothing to negate

No meditator
No meditation
No where to meditate
Nothing to meditate on
No one who could meditate
No thing to be meditated
No thing to meditate it
No seeing, no source, no seen, no end; a cycle of no linear nature and no dual nature. No Om. No ommer, no omming, no noer, no knower, no known and no.

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Coffee

Having gone; veg, green tea, mediation, and so on for so long I no longer craved any of the things I gave up: then something lead me to have coffee one day.

Wow, what a great drug!

The occasional coffee is a cool tool for focusing and freshening the mind.

This may not be a huge revelation but if you avoid coffee and you have no major reason to avoid it, then why not have a mid-strength coffee before you next settle down to meditate?

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A note from self to ego

So you think you are analytical - I think you are staring at the wall.

So you think you are spiritual - I think you speak mumbo-jumbo.

So you think you are religious - I think you have a closed off mind.

So you think you are happy - I say stop thinking and you will be.

So you think I have it all worked out - I know for sure you can't.

And this is why I exist in bliss,
  knowing the only certainty,
    is this.

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By the lake (Leon)

Leon Basin just went out on his bike, sat by the lake and wrote this...

Calmly sitting by the river, water moved in an undisturbed rhythm, progressing to begin anew. A cycling process of the nature was continuous. Life beginning and ending to give room for future life force to grow and develop. Ducks swam without a worry of where to swim next. Birds sang tunes of freedom. And I sit here and begin to sing my own freedom tune.

“Gentle waves of the river
Let me flow with you
Therefore, I know what it is like to be free!
Nothing on my mind, but
Freedom in my eyes
And in my heart and in nature too
Tears rolling down my cheek
Because life force is calling me!!!
I want to be free

“So, let me sing a song
With you birds today
Long forgotten
Since the Ancient Times.”

“Let my heart speak to you
So my soul could be released
From the dark caves of time
It’s the only way I know
How to live!”

As I sang the song of freedom. The birds followed for chorus:

“Lovely day
Lovely night
Let his heart be free tonight
Of darkness in his mind
And with that he can
Write more so his writing touches all.”

All that singing power came to a sweet haul. And the sun came out to join the fun. The sun beamed upon my face. I felt blessed to sit in silence, while singing my freedom tune.

A poetic version of the pleasure I get from nature and my lone bicycle rides. Life is good for Leon.

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A duel with dual

Mind is unreal
Matter is unreal

"Mind-Matter" is real! As you can see.

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Plus is an abstract nothing without minus.

Plus is unreal
Minus is unreal

Plus-Minus (or the infinity therein) is real

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Death is meaningless without life.

Life is unreal
Death is unreal

Suchness is real, as you can see.

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I is unreal
The reality unreal

I-reality is wow

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Original face

Drop the desire for enlightenment and then you are "not-I" and you regain your original face.

Anyone seeking enlightenment is of course not enlightened. Nor could anyone ever be enlightened, as on enlightenment, there is no I.

"I seeking enlightenment" is bound.

"Enlightened" is no-I, free.

So drop the idea you could ever achieve, as that achiever is not even possibly real. Drop the idea of an achieving entity so there is no longer a desirer; and then you reach the non-I, and there is enlightenment...

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The one you are is that which is

"The one you are is that which is"

You get it? or

"The one you are is the be what am"

"The out there is not"

"The in here is not"

"The out there is you"

When you eat or breath there is something appearing to be out that goes in. That boundary you have a notion of is imaginary. Truly the food was always and will always be you. It was you way before you ate it and it crossing that imaginary boundary where you tasted it and began to dissolve it did not mean it was outside of you and is now inside of you.

This whole thing is acting. This whole thing is the only reality and it has always been. With no time, no real dimensions, it just acts. "You" then form time and ideas of separation "I ate the cabbage, I put it in my belly" - No you didn't, the universe acted and you got the impression that there is a you and some "thing" you did.

Few take on this as an intellectual endeavour to prove this to the intellect - "there is no I" - and they don't have to. The goal is truly to heart it, no thought, no logic, no analysis, just be it. Very very very few have done that.

Yet it is the only way it could be, it just is that way, recognised or not, it is.

Many just live with the false illusion, few try to work out the truth, very very very few live it.

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What to do in killing I?

It is not to remove this "I"

It is not to work on the "I"

It is to recognise the true reality

and that is absent of any "I"





To work on the "I", to improve, or fix,
To aim to remove the "I" or prove it unreal,
are to re-enforce the "I" which is to enforce an illusion.

To recognise the true nature of reality will kill any idea of "I"
Job done.

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True self-help

As all is you, you are that (explained in many posts including the two below this one) then the only true self-help becomes evident and powerfully present.

All action "you" do is the action of the universe and is an action on and to your true self.

You stir up anything and you are doing that to yourself.

Now this smells like Karma but is not to be mixed with any preconceptions you may have of that term. Karma in a pure sense is "action"

"Karma. Firstly is not rebirth or past lives, but action, make, do, work or deed. Karma can relate to the result of past deeds, but that is more properly known as the phalam, or fruit of action."...

All I am really pointing out is that you are the universe and not you who thinks it is "I". There is a colossal difference and the idea most people carry with karma is that they must be good, do good, or they carry good or bad due to past good or bad - I say NO.

There is no past or present to carry that from or to, there is no I who could carry it. The true I is the action of the universe.

So the only true self-help is good action right now, in every now - absolute presence.

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No there no me no worries

Lets begin from the dual position that all I's live in.

There is perceiver and perceived.

Now:

Turn off perceiver -> there is nothing perceived.

or

Turn off perceived -> there is no perceiving.

So that dual split that people see as real and have so much trouble shaking is not even possible. It is not and can not be the case.

These emotions and feelings and qualities good and bad that are applied to things, they are only possible when there is an "I" saying they are there. And I has no reality, so what of these qualities?

They are a delusion of illusion.

There is no separation, there is an action: all.

You have very little choice in the face of this truth - you simply have to be blown away by it. You, the I is blown away.. it leaves only the true reality.

This is bliss.

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Fixing the self

As long as you work on the self you are working on an illusion, an idea.

The self has no reality so all work on the self is trying to clean your reflection from a mirror.

The more you try, the more you re-enforce the very illusion you are out to drop.

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Now has already happened

It has gone already. and this new now is also gone.

I have the pleasure of working during the week with a guy who gets very angry and stressed, he is one of the many things in my life that I use to re-emphasise truths.

He will be angry at things past, things happening, and angry about future events that he is sure are coming. So he is almost constantly annoyed with life. It is all someone else's fault and he is always right.

Thursday he had a new iPhone, he was pissed off at some lack of features and then the day went on, annoyed with this, with that, with this coming. He also makes many definite plans. "From now on I am leaving at 6 on the dot, I don't give a fuck what anyone says" and come 7.30 he is still there working and annoyed at something new. "I can't go home can I? That stupid so-n-so had that last minute job and now I'm expected to finish it"

During this time, I do the task at hand and sip my tea.

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The opposite enlightenment

Enlightenment is just so, not dual, and so has no opposite.

"Clearly factually false" says the thinker. "The opposite of enlightenment is un-enlightenment"

No.

Enlightenment has no opposite as it contains no opposites, or even notions. It is, just.

This is why it hmmmmm

it is not even

hmmmmm

omm

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Here we sit with not one idea,
no-thought and your life are one kind;
The solid reality that you can touch,
is one with the ungraspable mind.

more

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You

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