Your most significant limitation will always be your thinking, so don’t practice thinking. Practice “not” thinking.
Bozebits
Let not the things you want or desire be the object of your getting. Doing so will ruin all possible good in your life. “Today’s bread,” (only) said the prophet. YOU need not anything else.
Bozebits
The “search” for most is a return to the safety and security of the mythological garden where all wants are fulfilled, and mother, father, and angels stand guard to protect you. In other words, “safety is the search, and it never ends because “what YOU are” never appears in such a garden. You will never find “what YOU are” but among the thorns and thistles. Do you see? Adam and Eve were not cast out of the garden, they were cast into it. Let go of your “garden (idyllic) home” and something unfathomable will appear, e.g., YOU.
Bozebits
Of what are you aware? Is your venture into whatever your experience happens to be about you singularly facing a world that acts upon you in positive or negative ways, or do you experience a world that bustles with movement and surprise, as if “it” is living you? You live or are lived. Living (for most) is a series of snapshots that narrowly focus on you in the world. Being “lived” makes you the whole world. You don’t “choose” one or the other. You simply are; when you know what you are.
Bozebits
You are not what you describe yourself to be. Humans have an odd need to express their accomplishments and history as if what they are right now is not enough. Could anything you have done or planned be more incredible than YOU right now, at this very moment? If you could only stop describing who or what you are, you might(actually) get to experience who or what YOU are. Show up, but shut up; descriptions are never necessary when it’s YOU.
Bozebits
“What is” is directly proportional to what your Mind thinks “it” is. In other words, the more you think about “what is,” the less there is. Thinking limits your awareness and narrows the vastness of your experience. The only solution: stop thinking!
Bozebits
If we continue to see things in terms of right and wrong, we will never resolve the fundamental argument with life most of us have, e.g., “Why is life not fair?” Life does not care what you think and why you think it. It moves constantly and inexorably into new horizons that only a mind free of argument can experience.
Life is fair, but only a mind that divides it into rightness and wrongness will question it otherwise. This is the biggest reason for being “out of your mind.”
Bozebits
Changing your perspective is like changing your clothes. You swap out one perspective with another, but it is still just a perspective with all the rules, boundaries, and definitions accompanying it. Do you see? Perspectives are baselines for thinking that only get in the way of reality. Without perspective, the only place you can go is “no” perspective, and that will free you to “see” untainted (by perspective) “what is.” A perspective-less mind is clarity no perspective can comprehend.
Bozebits
Do you know who you are? Most unfortunate. Whomever or whatever you consider yourself to be is only an illusion, a role, a mask. That is, any thought of you is not you. When you strip away everything you consider yourself to be, what is left is not a “who” but a “what,” and that, A.K.A., YOU is indescribable. WHAT? Exactly!
Carl’s Nutshells
