UnMind Project

Truth does not belong to stillness or movement.

It belongs to what notices both without preference.

Guru Nanak laughed at kings not because he lacked power, but because he had discovered the one thing kings cannot threaten. The One who was never born and never dies.

A learned professor once visited a Zen master to ask about enlightenment. He spoke rapidly, quoting scriptures, philosophies, footnotes, and footnotes of footnotes.

The master listened politely and poured tea.

He poured until the cup overflowed.

The professor shouted, “Stop! The cup is full. No more will go in!”

The master smiled. “Exactly.”

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Buddhism teaches that because nothing exists independently, nothing can be blamed independently either.

Suffering is not a personal failure. It is a collective event.

When one being hurts, the whole web trembles.

True bhakti is not about God.

True Zen is not about emptiness.

Both are about the annihilation of the small self that wants certainty, reward, permanence, and spiritual merit badges.

They were describing causality at its most intimate level.

The outer world is obedient.

It follows consciousness like a shadow with excellent attendance.

When awareness has nothing to chew on, it tastes itself.

As the year ends, look honestly. How many moments were spent trying to matter instead of being alive? How many blooms were postponed for fear they would not last?

Tantra whispers,

“Everything is sacred, because everything is You.”

Zen replies,

“Who told you there is a ‘you’ to be everything?”

And you, standing there with your matcha latte, realize that Both are right.