Sailor Bob

the images in the mirror: they are visible; we can say they are there. But go and try to grab one. You can't. So they are not there at the same time. Just quit trying to grasp it with the mind. The answer is not there.

Put a powerful enough microscope on any object and all you’ll find is empty space.

Me, little Johnny or anyone else who continues to identify with the body-mind, will never wake up or get it. “I, little Johnny” is the veil, the cloud, a figment of imagination.

where do ideas come from? Please look for an experience, not logic. Relax for a moment and wait in silence for the next thought or mental image to come up. Where did it come from?

From realizing the inevitability of what is (as it is) comes innocence and relief from great burden.

Optical illusion is a deceptive appearance. A false idea is called illusion as well. …But the whole world?

It’s an opportunity to learn about the emotion’s physical effects without labelling it and weaving together a story about it in your head. This way, the emotion will be neither expressed nor suppressed but experienced fully in terms of present sensation and sensation only.

The end of seeking is an end of the split between ‘seeker’ and ‘sought’.

where do ideas come from? Please look for an experience, not logic. Relax for a moment and wait in silence for the next thought or mental image to come up. Where did it come from?