Being Just This Moment: My Awakening journey
A lot of meditation is just showing up for what we have, and there is joy in that. It’s diferent from the kind of happi- ness that comes from getting what you wanted. It’s a joy that doesn’t have a good reason. It’s a joy that allows you to be sad or upset, because you’re alive in the midst of it.
John Tarrant • John Tarrant : Articles
It is useful to understand that enlightenment itself is not fixed. It is not limited to any particular insight or moment of awakening; it is also the fluid and dynamic functioning of the totality of conscious life. That is why, with the dawning of enlightenment, there is nothing to attain or grab hold of—there is only the truth as it appears and fu
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"In my view, the realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life."