"Intention is not the same as having a goal.
Intention is direction, and direction is most important. The intention must be to let go, to drop off body and mind. It can not be your intention to hold on, to gain, to accumulate,or you will never be able to do it. Only when your intention is clear, when you are just sitting without trying to get someplace, or attain something in your practice, only then can you really let go of body and mind. Having the courage to look at your own mind you realize: Aha! No mind. It is unsubstantial, it is not fixed, solid thing. There is no self, no ego." But when we watch these thoughts more closely we find ourselves wondering "where are these thoughts coming from? I don't know! They seem to be coming out of nowhere, out of empty space. "
pg 8 to be continued
When we are first asked to find the thinker, we all say "obviously I am the thinker, and I have all these thoughts."
Who produces these thoughts in me?
the Eye Never Sleeps by Dennis Genpo Merzel
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Most people would say that goals are to increase our "stuff" -- our knowledge, our influence, our bank account... but rather than such a material goal, how about increasing our non-attachment, increasing our acceptance of others, increasing our acceptance of ourselves.
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These are personal notes and links regarding the dissolution of one's Self-Image --i.e. one's ego. The path is non-duality. Life itself has brought me here. These notes are reminders of my direction, and my lack of direction. They are to strengthen my focus on what ACIM calls "the real world" i.e. "that which does not change." While these notes are written for me, if you find them helpful, you may feel at home to read any of them.
Crab Grass
Collecting crab grass from one's lawn is an ever-ending task, and as I was working, I realized how much each little plant wants to live. They begin their innocent life as a small, gentle plant. The seeds germinate on top of other grass, and they don't even need to lie on the soil. Small roots grow down to the ground and begin to root, and the leaves begin to grow on top of the grass that's already living there. In a few weeks the roots invade completely under the grass that provided such gentile care to the germinating seed, and the leaves choke the grass underneath killing it's host by stealing everything for itself.
It's just like us. We share the same energy of life. This energy can be so strong, that we don't care for anyone else. We see it's effects when all we see is our own life, our own world, our own needs, and see the others as threats to our own needs.
... my thoughts are like crab grass
It's just like us. We share the same energy of life. This energy can be so strong, that we don't care for anyone else. We see it's effects when all we see is our own life, our own world, our own needs, and see the others as threats to our own needs.
... my thoughts are like crab grass
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