"[the] problem is not that of sending a message about the end of illusions and, eventually, about the end of the world. No more than that of making "beautiful images." The beauty of images is never an end. It is only the reward for a fidelity to the reality that one wants to express and to the means that one employs in doing so.

Bela Tarr never stops hammering out two very simple ideas. He is a man concerned with giving the most precise expression possible to the reality that people live. And he is a filmmaker entirely occupied by his art. Cinema is an art of the sensible. Not simply of the visible. Because all his films, since 1989, are in black and white, and because silence plays an ever-greater role in them, it has been said that he wanted to bring cinema back to its...

"My work is a result of the pull I feel towards transcendence." - Sofía Ortega

It looked like the sky lit a match. In our souls’ arrival here, first, there was a spark, and then...

“The griffin seems to have functioned similarly as a guardian of the flame and a keeper of the light.”

“Wisdom tells me I am Nothing. Love tells me I am Everything”

“Love is said easily, but it is a word that contains everything.”
— Plácida

~~"We are (all) One in our minds"~~

We are all One connected to existence. We are all 'of' existence.

Deeper awareness underneath the mind

Infintesimal Now

My Heaven on Earth

Endless becoming

Reincarnation / rebirth

↓

punabbhava / punarjanman / punarmrityu

"Becoming"

What if we see these misalignments as where the prtactice is? What if they are apart of the greater whole? What is we see them as a good thing? What if we treat them as an opportunity?

"The root of Metta is in all of us."

"For most, it is [just] hidden."

"Your peace is not somewhere else, your peace is here with you"

"Don't get outside things in your mind"

"Don't pollute your mind because of someone else"

"Don't try...

"We have to be compassionate to them until they know their (true) nature"

Paññā

"wisdom", "transcendental wisdom", "insight", "intelligence", or "understanding". It is described in Buddhist texts as the understanding of the true nature of phenomena

In the context of Buddhist meditation, it is the ability to understand the three characteristics of all things: anicca ("impermanence"), dukkha ("dissatisfaction" or "suffering"), and anattā ("non-self" or "egolessness")

The name of the Kuti I stayed in at Bhavana.

Brahmavihara: Living divine life on Earth (HEAVEN)

Release everything that is not needed

"There is no teacher"

"How can I more deeply accept what is?"

~~Find the solution to a problem~~

Realize there are no problems

(*The 'problem' is just a creation...

"By ourselves is Evil done...

By ourselves we endure pain...

By ourselves we become Pure...

No one saves us but ourselves...

No one can and no one may...

We ourselves must walk the path..."

“Of all things that have a body, the soul alone is naturally winged. As I behold the sparkling of their...

"new life from the faint ash of reminiscence"

We know that magic is real and it is everywhere, because it is right here

Everything I know comes from feeling

"Your coming and going is nowhere but where you are."

Now is eternal life

Red, soft small drops fall atop your heart

Gently, I bleed.

You receive me slowly.

The way the red of me meets the surface of you — your skin

A signal has been sent, as we have finally found each other in this infinitely-vast ocean

Like the scent to a shark

"Suffering is the base of happiness"

"There is a tendency in us to be individualistic, a seed of egoism, but that isn’t all that is in
us. There is also the seed of togetherness, the desire to help and be kind to others. If you are
exposed to an environment where the negative seed is watered every day, that seed will grow
and manifest in your daily life, strongly. But if you have the chance to be exposed to a loving,
understanding environment where the seed of compassion, of loving-kindness, can be watered
every day, then you become a more loving person. We have both tendencies. These tendencies
are somehow organic, so they need not be enemies of each other.
It is like suffering and happiness. We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look
for happiness, but, in fact, if you have not suffered, you...

"Therein lies the paradox: When you stop trying to eliminate irritation, you start to relax. Then
you can both relax. The pressure to be perfect lifts, and something more honest—and more
tender—emerges.
Because, in the end, relationships aren’t going to make us perfectly...

"The dreamer is consciousness itself—who you are.
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.”

"Form means limitation. We are here not only to experience limitation, but also to grow in consciousness by going beyond limitation. Some limitations can be overcome on an external level. There may be other limitations in your life that you have to learn to live with. They can only be overcome internally. Everyone will encounter them sooner or later. Those limitations either keep you trapped in egoic reaction, which means intense unhappiness, or you rise above them internally by uncompromising surrender to what is. That is what they are here to teach."

“There is the dream, and there is the dreamer of the dream. The dream is a short-lived play of forms. It is the world—relatively real but not absolutely real. Then there is the dreamer, the absolute reality in which the forms come and go. The dreamer is not the person. The person is part of the dream. The dreamer is the substratum in which the dream appears, that which makes the dream possible. It is the absolute behind the relative, the timeless behind time, the consciousness in and behind form. The dreamer is consciousness itself—who you are.
To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wondrous dream arises. This is the new earth.”

CHAPTER 7: Finding Who You Truly...

“The feeling of awe is not derived from the fact that there are billions of worlds out there, but the...

"Don’t try to let go of the grievance. Trying to let go, to forgive, does not work. Forgiveness happens naturally when you see that it has no purpose other than to strengthen a false sense of self, to keep the ego in place[...]"

“When you know yourself only through content, you will also think you know what is good or bad for you. You differentiate between events that are “good for me” and those that are “bad.” This is a fragmented perception of the wholeness of life in which everything is interconnected, in which every event has its necessary place and function within the totality. The totality, however, is more than the surface appearance of things, more than the sum total of its parts, more than whatever your life or the world contains.
Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose. This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying “The snow falls, each flake in its...

"Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind[...]"

“The ego could be defined simply in this way: a dysfunctional relationship with the present moment. It is at this moment that you can decide what kind of relationship you want to have with the present moment. “Once you have reached a certain level of consciousness, (and if you are reading this, you almost certainly have), you are able to decide what kind of a relationship you want to have with the present moment. Do I want the present moment to be my friend or my enemy? The present moment is inseparable from life, so you are really deciding what kind of a relationship you want to have with life. Once you have decided you want the present moment to be your friend, it is up to you to make the first move: Become friendly toward it, welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes,...

“When you feel the pain-body, don’t fall into the error of thinking there is something wrong with you. Making yourself into a problem—the ego loves that. The knowing needs to be followed by accepting. Anything else will obscure it again. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the is-ness of the Now. You can’t argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer. Through allowing, you become what you are: vast, spacious. You become whole. You are not a fragment anymore, which is how the ego perceives itself. Your true nature emerges, which is one with the nature of God.
Jesus points to this when he says, “Be ye whole, even as your Father in Heaven is whole.”1 The New Testament’s “Be ye perfect” is a...

“Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Through it, consciousness (spirit) is freed from its imprisonment in form. Inner nonresistance to form whatever is or happens—is a denial of the absolute reality of form. Resistance makes the world and the things of the world appear more real, more solid, and more lasting than they are, including your own form identity, the ego. It endows the world and the ego with a heaviness and an absolute importance that makes you take yourself and the world very seriously. The play of form is then misperceived as a struggle for survival, and when that is your perception, it becomes your reality.”

CHAPTER 7: Finding Who You Truly Are → Going Beyond Limitation

Excerpt From
A New Earth: Oprah's Book Club
Eckhart...

“Being present is always infinitely more powerful than anything one could say or do[...] -the thinking mind cannot understand Presence and so will often misinterpret it. It will say that you are uncaring, distant, have no compassion, are not relating. The truth is, you are relating but at a level deeper than thought and emotion. In fact, at that level there is a true coming together, a true joining that goes far beyond relating. In the stillness of Presence, you can sense the formless essence in yourself and in the other as one. Knowing the oneness of yourself and the other is true love, true care, true...

“There is nothing wrong with psychoanalysis or finding out about your past as long as you don’t confuse knowing about yourself with knowing yourself. The five-thousand-page dossier is about yourself: the content of your mind which is conditioned by the past. Whatever you learn through psychoanalysis or self-observation is about you. It is not you. It is content, not essence. Going beyond ego is stepping out of content. Knowing yourself is being yourself, and being yourself is ceasing to identify with content.
Most people define themselves through the content of their lives. Whatever you perceive, experience, do, think, or feel is content. Content is what absorbs most people’s attention entirely, and it is what they identify with. When you think or say, “my life,” you are...

"How can I measure my progress on the spiritual path?"

"The degree of absence of thinking is the...

You're floating in the Ocean of Love

"I am is the way."

"And if you know yourself as the One, which happens when the mind, the stream of thinking stops, --and there's just an aware presence, a spacious, aware, formless presence-- that's who you are beyond the form. And from there, you can enjoy the play of forms. If you're not there, the play of forms is threatening. Or you seek continuously to fulfill yourself through grasping at forms. The play of forms is never satisfying unless you have touched within yourself the root of all satisfaction, which is being as itself. Consciousness itself."

We are each souls, and then we are One. These are two different levels of consciousness. When the individual's soul meets another individual's soul, there is a recognition that that it is a soul

Love is soul talk

"The stillness is the essence of now. And so love arises. [Our] destiny is to live in that way as our normal state of consciousness. And then, of course, the world would become transformed if enough humans live in that space...
--Because basically, we're always talking about the One. we're always pointing to the one essential truth, which is the truth of who you are." -- ECKHART TOLLE

Be the space of stillness

"Perceiving from the heart is to perceive from Beingness." Love me and look at me without any concepts

Part of what we're trying to cultivate is the ability to be in the instability

"When things do inevitably go wrong, when there is loss, when there is pain, when there is suffering:...

7 kinds of wealth:

• faith
• ethics
• conscience
• prudence
• learning
• generosity
• wisdom

"So when we sit down to meditate, what is it that we're actually doing?"

... one answer of infinitely many:

"Cultivating the peace that comes from setting the intention to sit down and be with ourselves."

Dissolving

"Form does not differ from emptiness,
Emptiness does not differ from form."

"The value of a cup comes from its emptiness"

Yin-Yang-ification

'End' just means the end of something in its beginning

experience joy ⇆ generate joy

Find your own freedom

What we're searching for is Being

"Opening to joy is quite simple. It's actually learning to Be with life. (And) stop fighting it, stop...

"the magic is not that there's a way out, but that there's a way in"
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

*we just remember to settle again and again and again seeking nothing except for connection to...

Release the thinking, the attachment, to an intellectual concept or idea; because when you think of something, the mind tries to attach and hold onto an energy that is just meant to pass away.

Releasing is receiving

We are the fountain. Everything is the fountain. Just like a light bulb. The world is the water.

We are experimenting with the deepest expressions of putting this Oneness on display. Returning to it, offering it in a ritual, and inviting others to access it.

Transcendence is transcendence itself. Transcendence isn't a destination. It's like a constant, ever-evolving spiral of transcending and transcending and transcending. Just like enlightenment isn't a state of being that you can sustain or be frozen at. It's not something you can capture. Just like love isn't something that you can grasp. You can't write a love letter to someone, and then you have love in the grasp of your hand. It's something that you're embodying and living. I think transcendence, enlightenment, love, all of these things are just light of the bulb, which is Oneness.

That's how I feel in the deepest core of my being. There is no other message than this that I can give the world, give myself, or the universe. For I know that everything that I give is just an...

"My work is a result of the pull I feel towards transcendence."

I want to create a return to Oneness with my life.

Silence is the music

You already Are

Everything you could ever know is heard from silence

The fabric of our souls is tied together with infinite Love

WHAT WE ARE MADE OF IS INFINITE

"Art, in its truest form, is not a product of ambition—it is a transmission. Closer to prayer than performance, closer to ritual than routine. There is something profoundly immaterial at its core. It begins with a stirring, a pressure, a sense that something must be brought into the world that does not yet have a name. And once that thing reveals itself, it demands to live outside of the vessel. To stay silent is to rupture."

All I can do is let go and let God stretch the size of my heart

Let’s keep surfing on this heavenly infinity, Dear Soul

If I told you that, we can just hold this experience and its multitudes (with all the thoughts, feelings, ideas, complexity), and let go. And if we let go, we’d melt into a golden ocean of loving God essence, where everything’s okay and all is well. And that’s all we need....

I’m holding you
Always
In my heart. But know that my soul wraps around you like a blanket. I expand, enlarge, and I cover your whole world in my infinite healing warmth
I know that you’re only partly human. But the soul of you, the consciousness of you, all that you are, the fact that you are infinite Love… I see that… I feel that…. I know that…. I am that…. And we are that together. And I will always love you from that place
With me, I will always work to free you, and free us
And never limit us. Never chain us. Never allow us to be trapped by our minds
Freeeeeeedom!!!
I love you my baby

"What might it look like to shift from describing the place to creating from what it feels like?"

I want you to keep doing what is burning bright in your heart!

You're connected to me like veins.

You move life around in me like blood

We are infinite love

Now is forever

I hold onto nothing, I am One with eternal life

What is your mind telling you about right now that makes you doubtful that it is not enough?

"We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience."
--James Turrell

"Love is life that last forever.
My heart's memory turns to you."
--Derek Jarman, Blue Movie

It is beyond right.
--it is true

suddenly I realized
that every single thing in this human life
is fleeting,—and that only the purest...

“It can happen to the work, but the only real thing you have access to and control over is how much you are engaged in the here and now. There is a universality to art that is, of course, always speaking about the here and now…” — Wolfgang Tilmans,

source:
Wolgang Tilmans:...

and suddenly I realized
that every single thing in this human life
is fleeting,—and that only the...

Do and Be from the depth of your most authentic realness, without your actions implicitly or...

What can I be doing with my presence and energy right now that points in the direction of where I want...

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over...

If we can take one breath, we can do anything

Just feel

These words can't hold the true meaning I'm speaking of

I AM JUST A VESSEL OPEN-ENOUGH FOR THE TRUTH TO FACILITATE ITSELF AND PEEK THROUGH THE CLOUDS REPRESENTING THE EGO-GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS POINT-OF-INTERSECTION, ULTIMATELY DELIVERING A MESSAGE BOTH TO MYSELF AND OF COURSE TO YOU, TOO

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A SOUL IS TO BE A DROP OF WATER IN OUR SHARED SEA OF CONSCIOUSNESS

WE ARE THE INFINITESIMAL PRESENT MOMENT OF A STAR BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER EXPLOSION

“No matter what happens, I will not create more pain or suffering for myself.”

“Nothing real can be threatened”

“I love those eyes of yours, my friend.
Their sparkling, flashing, fiery wonder
When suddenly those lids ascend
Then lightning rips the sky asunder
You swiftly glance and there’s an end

There’s greater charm, though, to admire
When lowered are those eyes divine
In moments kissed by passion’s fire
When through the downcast lashes shine
The smoldering embers of desire…”
—Stalker, 02:38:49''

How can we orient our precious powers of attention and imagination to what, in the midst of all that is...

North Star

Keep the light going

I want → I am
I will → I do

Remember that nothing can truly hurt you, you are invincible, you are protected

“What every artist is looking for is silence”

I'm melting into you now

“You are fire clothed in black”
“Your blood ran crimson”
“Life had slipped from my grasp”
“As long as I live my, my Love
My life will be an offering to you”

“I am weary of the scars”
“The suffering has gone beyond measure”
“The world is a window”
“He who loves his life loses it
And he who hates his life in this world
Will keep it for eternal life”

THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
1980

Therefore, What God has joined together, let no man separate.”

“...Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light. Instead of reacting to delusion, you see the delusion yet at the same time look through it. Being the knowing creates a clear space of loving presence that allows all things and all people to be as they are. No greater catalyst for transformation exists.”
—The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, Chapter 8

“Sanity — consciousness — can only come into this world through you. You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened. You may wait forever.”
—The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle, Chapter 8

What do you think this moment is asking us to do? I’m here with you. I’ve got you.

The symbol of you is a portal into the infinite for me

What can I do in this very moment?

What choice can I make?

If I know that this moment is perfectly placed just for me, if I know that things are always working for me (and not against me), how would I feel? How would I ease into, and relax into the Now?

Life becomes crystal clear
When we remember to melt into every piece of stardust in our universe that we are only under the illusion that we are separate from
And we allow and expect ourselves to change just like the Sun, Moon, and planets do

The goal is always to settle into the embodiment of our brightest frequencies. I can feel that I am attuned to it. I am Love, and everything around me is, too. For as long as I’m here, I’ll always work to keep our hearts safe.

Law of Continuity: "Whatever succeeds for the finite, also succeeds for the infinite.”

"The essence of relationship is space. Not disconnected space — but connected space like the space of...

Love is always infinitely shining

"Unless we cultivate letting go, unless we can stop accepting heart-patterns as unbiased truth and ‘my self’, the issues of the past will be the basis for further kamma. The difficulty is that letting go requires the presence of an awareness that can receive contemplate and release these impressions. This takes a lot of grounded goodwill, clarity and spaciousness – qualities that can remind the citta of ‘safe and comfortable’.
In life-scenarios of chronic abuse, or performance-driven stress, the heart-pattern of ‘safe and comfortable’ may be rare. So when we go to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha for Refuge, this isn’t just a catch-phrase; it’s a practice of sensing the felt meaning of the Triple Gem, attuning one’s heart to it, and opening one’s embodied presence to the...

"Thus the man Jesus became Christ, a vehicle for pure consciousness. And what is God's self-definition in the Bible? Did God say, "I have always been and I always will be"? Of course not. That would have given reality to past and future. God said, "I am that I am." No time here. Just presence. The second coming of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. If Christ were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to you other than this? I am the truth. I am...

I am confident that you are the right receiver
I am creating portals for us both to slip into with my...

In every moment we build Heaven

through constant change, through constant motion

infinite rebirth

inhaling new life
exhaling old death

always coming and going, always arriving

We are here.

And we can allow that to be perfect

“the descent of spirit into matter
the ascent of matter into spirit “

When we start tuning more to intuition, spirit, guides, dreams, and symbols, we’re no longer operating only through logic. The messages come in feeling, synchronicity, paradox, silence. This mismatch between inner knowing and outer language creates confusion. Your mind tries to “grasp,” but your soul asks you to surrender and trust.

It’s like trying to decode poetry with math.

"Dear friend,
your heart is a polished mirror.
You must wipe it clean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of Divine secrets." - Imam Al-Ghazali

with every moment, if we can just ease into the present. if we can pair it with our own active...

The sun comes and goes in your eye, the night is alive in your body.

I wonder. I wonder about the planet itself as a mirror. A sphere of parallel existence. Am I not participating in a dance with those beyond where I can touch, or know, or swim to? In my breathing, I am balancing the seen and the unseen, learning to cultivate a graceful way...

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper” -William Butler...

“The divine essence of life is love and it flows through everything.” — Sahar Zadah

In these deep waters, there is nothing solid out there to hold on to – no external security, no way to...

What are you sure of in your heart when nothing else is sure?

How can you flow on and through the dark?

“I want to unfold.
Let no place in me hold itself closed,
for where I am closed, I am false.
I want to...

“In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?”

• “Reality”, Rabia al-Basri

let love go first
let life announce itself
do not fear their eyes
trust
that what is deep is holy...

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

∆ Thich...

There is another world but it is in this one.

∆ Paul Éluard or W. B. Yeats (attribution unknown)

"To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which...

“Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit where it is due: time.
We are synchronized, now and forever.
I love you.”
(Gonzalez-Torres, 1988)

Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel. If anything comes, pass it on. Don't cling. (Sri...