Sailor Bob

Without any label, anxiety is just an energy moving in consciousness. Can you locate it? Can you circumscribe it? Can you sense its density, shape and colour? What does it do to the breath? When neutral curiosity replaces resistance, it is life itself. It is fascinating. …And so is anger!

Acknowledge the content of all the senses, including thinking, if attention goes there. Acknowledge the background. You are That — not a body or thought but rather the absence thereof…

No map is the territory. Concept or image cannot contain it. The symbol is not to show what is, but to describe how it appears. No words can ever represent it adequately. Contradictions and paradoxes are welcome aids to undo any fixed ideas.

The simpler the message is presented, the closer it is to the truth. Simplicity is the key. It is singular after all!

The mind that doesn’t know is close to the no-mind. Interpretation services are suspended. There is no individual I.

The basic five senses report about the environment (including the body) in the present location, at the present time (for there is no other time for direct sensory experiencing).

“The Great Perfection is non-conceptual awareness”. Knowing without concepts, without a thought. This is your essential nature.

Labelling is just an overlay of narration. Labelling is a convenient tool for communication and as such it is to be greatly appreciated.

Have the affectionate awareness of being. Be warm towards yourself, love yourself. This is Sat-Chit-Ananda.