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What Is In Front of You?

by Constance Casey What is in front of you? What is roiling around inside? Do you hear that? Insight. Yes. Remembering. So simple So sweet. See link: go hear this annoying discussion! NO! What for? Ears listen for silence. Ears hear silence in annoyance. Ah, yes, silence stills all Arising out of the great mystery of all What does silence want more than its own understanding? Peace? The ears want to hear dharma that is simple, clear & wholesome, so let them. Just do the dishes Just move...

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Cemetery Site

by Constance Casey What is really happening is that I’m burying my self Yeah, there is no way I can look at the world the same way anymore There was a train wreck and that train was me I don’t even know what the tracks were but they are gone too Where to go is totally unknown What to do is also completely unknown Who I am is a mystery beyond belief And yet All is known, All is seen Even here moves on Even now is gone Time to dig the ditch and bury the remnants There ain’t nobody home Which...

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Mara or the Hater’s & What’s Next?

I came across this guy on the internet who does video blogging, Jay Smooth, he is so cool and honest. I felt suddenly heard, and wondered a lot about what I’m going through on a content level, where most of what I’m aware of is on a process level. The little haters in my mind keep telling me to stay put, say nothing, do nothing in regards to all the meditation work I’ve done and all the insights that keep pouring forth in my whole being because: nobody will ever understand this, and nobody, or...

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Motivation and Gentle Inquiry

I wanted to share with you a helpful blog post from my friend, Duff McDuffee, on motivation. When looking at wanting something, it seems so easy to avoid it or push through it. Usually either end of this dualism isn’t very gentle. And, we probably learned all this growing up, in school, with others in a variety of ways. Often workplaces have created cultures to help push folks to do certain things, and to avoid other things. But there is another more intimate way to just gently inquire with...

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Mumbling

At first kids are so slippery with their tongues they can’t quite get the words out when they are young. Then, as they start to learn how to speak, their development grows and they are shouting for what they want until, for my kids, the teenage years hit, then all the work that went into teaching them how to pronounce words and hit the syllables just right, went out. They were slouchy and difficult to understand every which way. The main words, out of my mouth were, “Huh?, What was that you...

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