October 2019

Why Is One Thoughtless?

September 10th ~ The thinker thinks his thoughts through habit, through repetition, through copying, which brings ignorance and sorrow.  Is not habit thoughtlessness?  Awareness creates order, but it never creates habit.  Settled tendencies only bring about thoughtlessness.  Why is one thoughtless?  Because to think is painful, it creates disturbances, it brings opposition, it may cause …

Why Is One Thoughtless? Read More »

Moment – to – Moment Understanding

September 15th ~ The fundamental understanding of oneself does not come through knowledge or through the accumulation of experiences, which is merely the cultivation of memory.  The understanding of oneself is from moment to moment; if we merely accumulate knowledge of the self, that very knowledge prevents further understanding, because accumulated knowledge and experience become …

Moment – to – Moment Understanding Read More »