Investigation cannot be undertaken when one is sure of the result; a spirit of openness is necessarily inherent in investigation. We do not know what we will discover; if we did, then the investigation would be a recovery effort. Who knows does not investigate. Just so, as we inquire into existence (into Self and RealityContinue reading “Investigation and Grace”
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Nonresistance and A Course in Miracles
Nonresistance is a helpful aspect of any practice of nonduality. Certainly it is reflected in A Course in Miracles, the path – for lack of a better word – down which I was stumbling when the light-that-is-always-there began to reveal itself. We say ‘God is,’ and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledgeContinue reading “Nonresistance and A Course in Miracles”
Letters from the Hill (#2)
In the meantime, I turn my attention to what works, which is only what I perceive as helpful. The world does what it does and the circumstances that arise accordingly are like waves I do not trust to hold me yet. Hence, the daily lesson of A Course in Miracles. Hence a walk into moonlitContinue reading “Letters from the Hill (#2)”
Letters from the Hill (#1)
I like how thought includes thou . . . In time we have a practice, which is in the nature of attending to a relationship where the relationship is with all that is. In order to fully realize this relationship, we have to learn how to give attention to it, and then give attention toContinue reading “Letters from the Hill (#1)”
What Emerges from Attention
We could say that the self emerges from attention, in the sense that what it gives attention to and how it gives attention become the self, or what we are – for now – calling the self. If we are inattentive, then the self will be a sort of mess. Whatever enters is taken withoutContinue reading “What Emerges from Attention”
The Gift of Undivided Love
attention is the gift of undivided love, effortlessly giving as it was given attention yields discernment which is to see clearly what is and on that basis to separate the true from the false discernment yields detachment – detachment from outcomes and goals, from having and not having – detachment from the false – detachmentContinue reading “The Gift of Undivided Love”