Keep Rolling

"Have you ever stopped to think and forgotten to start again?" ~Winnie the Pooh

A car keeps rolling down the hill for awhile, even though it has run out of gas. So action continues to arise in this body, through karmic force of habit, even after the mind attains emptiness and the do-er vanishes.

Upon enlightenment, there is no reason not to enjoy a glass of Cabernet, not to taste moods of sadness and exuberance, not to continue one's morning meditation for the sheer joy of it. In fact, these actions arise more delightfully, because they are not performed to achieve anything.    

The ever-exploding reality all around you is nothing but Consciousness: hence there is no "inside" or "outside." The stream of ideas you experience right now is neither "your" mind nor "mine."

Beneath these thought-waves lies a continuum of awareness that is both you and I, being and nothing. This continuum of awareness is one spontaneous moment in which the whole universe, with the eternal future and eternal past, appears as a sudden mirage.

If you still feel hurt and angry, just wake up. There is no one to blame, nothing to forgive, and no compassionate enlightened forgiver.

The unidentified flying objects in the sky are dead bugs on your windowpane: that's how maya works. So stop projecting your fears into a world that isn't other than your seeing.

To be "poor in spirit" is to be empty, which is true wealth. You have no choice but to love your neighbor, because your neighbor is your Self. Don't even call it "love." It is simply seeing, without wearing the concepts of "me" and "you" on your nose.

Think of what makes you most angry and afraid. Where is it? Now stop thinking. Where is it?

In the final analysis, there is neither superior nor inferior. The revolution is to be nobody.

What happened just before the creation of the world was much more important than anything since, and That is who you are right now.

You are an antelope leaping toward the sun, just as a cougar sinks her fang into your jugular vein. Pain and ecstasy, life and death, triumph and loss, are exactly the same energy.

Now roll up your Master's degree and your PHD.  Light them like a fine Cuban cigar. Watch them burn right down to your fingertips. When you feel the burn and the flame goes out, your education is complete.