Tremont Rapids

Letting go of dualities

See the perfection. . .

Spring Storm Skies

Spring Flowers, Light and Clouds

Wisteria Hysteria

Glorious Redbud

Spring Lake Sunset

The third thing

Not effort or
the absence of effort,
neither choice nor
the impossibility of choice,
neither self nor not self,
neither nothing nor something,
neither emptiness nor form,
neither unborn nor born,
the third thing... - John Astin

The great ego. . .

The great ego turns out to be a lifeless jack-in-the-box. Even more, when you look inside, “Jack” is missing! When you look into the mind, all you find are a few thoughts, feelings and perceptions. You do not find a defective, limited person — only the space of pure knowing and being, or the non-conceptual, ever-fresh presence of awareness itself. Now you know you are THAT. That is the main point. All the suffering and seeking was only believing in a thought about someone who never existed. - John Wheeler

Distinctions

Black and Pastels

Layers of Colors

Spring Lake

Burned Forest

Rhododendron and Fence

In the absence of the person

No wonder "you" cannot see this : This is a freedom that a "person" will never see.


How could a "person" ever accept that everything happens spontaneously, of its own accord, in the absence of the person?


The Tao (or Oneness, or God, or Life, or Spirit, or Emptiness…) has no centre, no mind, no personal volition. It appears as everything, but itself is nothing. Nothing manifesting as a world, as everything there is and is not. And there is only the Tao, which is to say there is no Tao at all.

And even to speak of it, even to think of it, even to do that is to lose it forever.


And yet the thinking and the speaking are fully the Tao; there is nothing that it is not.



It is the no-thing by which everything appears. And it’s not even that, because it’s not an “it” at all.

When speaking of the Tao, silence is the only way… - Jeff Foster

Light over Water

Hawksbill and Clouds