Can you stop THIS?

Without thinking about it, can we stop or prevent what is happening right now in this moment? The room I am in, the music playing, the slight chill in the air, the sounds of the keyboard, my full stomach, the sensation of sitting...can I stop these from happening without thinking about it?

Well let's see.

I stop thinking and see, quite plainly, very obviously, that these things are just happening. They are facts. The room is here, the music plays, sensations happen. It's all just happening. The fact of it is effortless. It is very fresh and beautiful actually. Very simple.

Yet the mind does not have time for this silent simplicity and quickly buries the fact of this effortlessness with thoughts and opinions, imaginations or memories. The mind ignores the simple fact that everything is just here, easily, without requiring thinking to interpret any of it.

Right now, without thinking about it the sun is quickly setting, clouds move across the sky, I feel a sensation of tiredness in my eyes, I hear the dull and distant movements of my house-mates. This all just happens, regardless of whether or not I'm thinking about it.

Without thinking about it things are just as they are. Ordinary and simple. These are our only facts, the Mind is only ever interpretation and opinion.

Can you see this fact without the Mind's distraction?

Try it. Suspend thought. Just see. See the ordinary as it is, without names and labels. See its there-ness, its being, its fact.

See the quiet stillness of things.

Sign above the entrance to the Universe:

WELCOME TO EXISTENCE:

- Everything is Awareness -

(although appearances may vary)

This

Just this,

Without anyone to see

This.

Flame

The invisible flame of awareness
burning even the concept
of 'awareness'.

Water

A wave cannot sway
the ocean.

Nature

Suddenly,
No more stepping stones!

We simply swim.

Language

The world is made
of scribbles.

Open Essay II

Without jumping into analysis and philosophical systems, let us relax the mind and look directly at experience as it arises, raw and naked. Let us drop names and ideas, comparisons and memories, likes and dislikes, and just see. Let us be like scientists without even the idea of science to colour our perception, or like children who have not learnt all the names of things and are still open to wonder.

Let us ask ourselves a question:

What is the one thing in this moment can you be certain about? What is there in this moment that is real and actual beyond all doubt or criticism? Is there anything available now which presents itself beyond all supposition or belief?

If we are totally honest and clear with ourselves we may see that the only certainty we have in this moment is that - in the most simple terms - ‘something’ is happening.

It might be a sensation like hunger or a tingling in the face or fingers, the sunlight coming through the window, a birds shriek, an itch, numbness or warmth, but before we even begin naming and describing, the only fact we can be certain about is that ‘something’ is happening.

Now all you have to do is discover just what that ‘something’ is.

The Value of Dust

In this space
even the loudest thoughts are mute,

The most solid sensations
appear as mists.

All of this dust,
is really

Gold.

THE MINDS JOB IS TO IGNORE THE ORDINARY

Beyond

Now
- Not even a thought.

Even this,

Veils.

January morning

One more crow,
And my heart
Will break.

Without words,
Without thoughts,
The world is as it is.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

The raw and direct experience of whatever you are doing right now transcends all and any concepts which might overlay it. Life doesn’t require concepts to be.

Reality cannot be described,
It simply is.