Monthly Archives: April 2009

• Do you want to know everything there is to know about awakening? Watch a French waiter open a bottle of wine. THAT’S AWAKENING! #
• Awakening is about LIFE! FUCKING LIFE! Do you get it? LIFE! Oh my God, how did I miss this for so long?! Thank God for the French! #
• When you sit down at a table in Paris, you OWN that table. For a country of atheists, the French GET awakening! #
• Does anyone who is awake ever apologize? #
• Seriously, why would you ever be sorry for anything? Everything is perfect as it is. No regrets, no disagreements with life. #
• I’m rocketing across France on Thalys. Belgium then Amsterdam next. What the human mind can create is astounding.

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• Suffering. Did the Buddha get it right? It sure seems like he did. Inherent in all attachment and aversion is suffering. It’s so obvious. #
• Susan Boyle ROCKS http://tinyurl.com/c49rgl #
• Why does Susan Boyle move us? Because she touches something in us? No, because she IS you and she IS me. One, one, one. We are Susan Boyle. #
• Life is a movement of arising from nothing. Then falling back to nothing. I am the arising and the falling and the nothing and the life. #
• The “answer” is always in the question “Who?” Ramana always would say to people, “Find out who wants to know.” Who has the question? #
• All my life I’ve felt this strong desire to express myself.

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• Your last realization doesn’t mean much. It may have been transformative, but what is here now? What do you see now? Separation? Look again! #
• Awakening is gritty, a rough and tumble kind of thing at times. Forget the sweetness and light garbage. Get your hands dirty! #
• Something to remember about all teachers: they, too, are limited in their perspective. They may have seen ALL, but they can’t report ALL. #
• I hate to admit it, but I doubt I can sit too much. Whatever seems to arise, sitting with it always pays off. I think I’ll sit now. #
• What’s the pay off of sitting? Peace. Nothing more, nothing less. #
• Everywhere you go, there is a Starbucks in Paris. Oh la

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• I read a book review that used the phrase “self-empowerment.” Right now, stop, look within, and find the self we are supposed to empower. #
• I love Paris. But one must ask What’s the point to all of this? Ah, no point at all…. #
• Un autre cafe, s’il vous plait. #