Being Present
The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. “Seeking” implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something [...]

Release Meditation
“Once there was a man who hated his own shadow. When he walked and found that his shadow was close behind him, he began to walk faster and faster. But the faster he moved, the closer his shadow came. So he ran like a madman…and in the end, he dropped dead. Those who do [...]

“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally” -Tolle
Acceptance is hard.
The mind thinks acceptance is defeat, resignation, stoic tolerance. The mind thinks acceptance is locking in a reality it [...]

“Cease to Cherish Opinion”
When we have the insight we are not our thoughts, we do we not awaken instantly?
It’s because we cling to concepts.
Clinging to concepts is the biggest obstacle to awakening. It can be a very obvious or a very subtle obstacle. It shows up in many ways:
Resistance to starting: “I will become emotion-less”, [...]

Release and Heal

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Aniis Nin
This technique is simple, effective, natural and beautiful. We knew it as children but have forgotten how to use it.
It works right away with emotions, but once you have [...]

Awareness Now
Awareness Now, Effortless meditation, passive watchfulness, no-mind, True Meditation, formless meditation, natural being, flow—they’re all the same thing.
True meditation is not a practice. It is being—just being, without the movement of becoming. It is Awareness. Just stop and look, just be, passively, without the effort of thinking and without the effort of becoming—this is [...]

Exit the World of Fear and Sadness
I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In [...]

Ripening – Are you ready to awaken? – 2nd ebook excerpt from Awakening is Simple
The greatest delusion is that you identify with the voice of thought in your head. You are not Mind. Suffering is created by thought and can only be experienced in thought.
Most of us are at unease. We experience this as suffering, [...]

Gentle readers, I’m posting parts of the ebook Awakening is Simple.

Over the next few days, I’ll post the following sections:

Awakening is Simple / Ripening / Exit the World of Fear and Sadness / Awareness Now / Release / “Cease to Cherish Opinion” / Acceptance / Release Meditation / Metta / Presence / Close