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Monthly Archives: February 2009
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You get what you need
Just like you, I sang those lyrics on more than one drunken (and sober) evening. They are compelling and seem to reflect almost everyone’s experience. You can’t always get what you want.
But is that true? On more than one occasion, I’ve run across a spiritual teacher or guru saying something completely opposite to this bit of Rolling Stone wisdom. Something along these lines:
“Everything that happens to you is exactly what you want. But only… Read the rest →
Tagged with: desire
I live on a farm, believe it or not, the one that I grew-up on and the one that my dad grew-up on. My grandparents bought it in 1944, and it has been in the family ever since. No one in the family does any farming these days, certainly not me! My grandfather would laugh out loud if someone suggested that I was a farmer. He was, and so was my dad, but I’ve always been a bit too cosmopolitan for the farming gig. Nonetheless, I love hanging around the old farm.
When I say “changes around the farm,” that’s my way of saying there are some changes happening here on tomstine.com. I’ve been pondering various… Read the rest →
I finished another 5 day silent retreat with Adyashanti on Friday, and from that retreat came something new: an intense desire to see everything clearly. I want to know, really know, what is real. Clear seeing seems, at this point in my journey, to be the most important thing in the Universe. Nothing matters but the clarity of my vision.
What do I mean by clear seeing? That’s kind of hard to describe. At this point, the best I can do is say that clear seeing is perceiving the world, life, self, everything, with the purest of sight. Only what is true seems to matter. Anything that I don’t know for absolute certainty must go. Basically, all beliefs are not wanting to be believed. Clear seeing appears to be freedom.… Read the rest →
Tagged with: Adyashanti
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