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mandag 28. september 2015

It’s just happening,



Personal claim on life or what’s to happen or not happen, is a dream. Life doesn’t belong to someone in time. It’s happening, and there is an energy,  one extra part that life plays, an energy of claiming life, “I am choosing, I am doing.” But there is no choice, no doing or doer.  Reality /Life doesn’t need our help to be itself. 

What a relief! Life is not personal. There is no world our there happening to someone. There is life. There is just life. And you are life, but not you as a “who you think you are.” – we’re not who we think we are…we’re not the stories. 




onsdag 5. februar 2014

The Layer of Drama


Sometimes people talk about how we should not be attached to possessions, experiences, the body, places, people... But there is a natural attachment, or a being touched by these things. It is natural to feel touched being with someone you love, or enjoying a new outfit, or new house. It is natural to feel hurt when someone leaves you, or annoyed when your favourite object breaks. It is not this natural 'being touched' that is the problem, it is the layer of drama around it. It is the story of 'me' around it that builds up this drama and makes it all seem, and feel, very serious and meaningful to 'me'. When the thinking turns an experience or feeling into a 'story of me', or identity, it starts to feel dramatic and exciting. It starts to feel all about 'me' and how special I am. Then the natural 'being touched' is so overlaid by the story that the original feeling is no longer really felt. 

Being without attachment, means being totally utterly touched by life again and again to the point that it cracks your heart open, and at the same time knowing that it is all totally and utterly meaningless.
The thinking can not do this. You can not try to make this happen. It is simply in acknowledging the awful truth of this paradox that you see that this is how life is already, whether you like it or not.