the problem is the wanting an answer....

"We think we’re permanent, but we’re not. 

We think that by craving things we’ll find happiness, 

but we won’t. 

One after another 

the Buddha challenges our established views,

 our ways of constructing our version of the world, 

and takes them apart: 

you think it’s one way but it’s not; 

you want an answer, 

but 

the problem is your very wanting of an answer."

~Henry Shukman

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from knowing to not-knowing...

"The way I see it now, the transformative power of meditation 

has a profound ally in our dreams. They work the same defenses, 

in different but allied ways, battering our defended self 

until we give up and allow greater forces to work through us. 

Instead of knowing, we learn to not-know. Instead of being the hero 

of our own story, we become a servant, a helper, in a greater story."

~Henry Shukman

return to your Immaculate Self...

"Always at the point of real atomic recognition,
the strongest doubt and loudest noise will come.
Don’t panic.
They are phenomena.
You are the witness of both doubt and noise.
They happen in you, not to you.
You forever remain the immaculate Self."

~ Mooji
April 2014
www.mooji.org

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"Perhaps we all carry an immemorial wound, an infinite loss,
a self-exile we perpetrate on ourselves.
It turns us into isolated entities
stalking the earth in search of what we think we need—
the temporary stays against ennui, despair, loss, and terror.
 But sooner or later, the wound can carry us toward its own remedy,
 if we only let it."
~Henry Shukman