There is only one way, and to the chagrin of many, it is not your way, any way, someone’s or everyone’s way! Happily, you’ll know the way when you’re on the way and YOU are always “on the way.” Don’t overthink it!
Bozebits
Happiness is not a derivative of your ability to judge the differences between this or that. It exists regardless of your distinctions but is most apparent when you don’t make any distinctions. Do you see?
It is not possible to dive naked into a pool of water and not get wet. Likewise, happiness is a pool that only asks that you plunge into its depths without judging how wet you will get or what that wetness consists of. Life is swimming; even if you don’t know how to swim, always take the plunge. See you at the pool!
Bozebits
Your spoken or unspoken unworthiness, imperfection, sadness, fear, etc., is your mind’s rejection of what it recognizes but fails to know. That is, “what YOU are,” underneath all the labels you apply to yourself, is pushed aside more fiercely and clung to as the necessary evil of your existence. It is often called suffering.
In other words, your mind is afraid of “what YOU are” to the extent that it accepts and forms lies that virtue and perfection are something you are not. Do you see? Your mind utters judgments because it cannot fathom the impossible, and “what YOU are” is the ‘impossible.”
Without any of your mind-made or human-made labels, what (ultimately) are YOU? You’ll never know if any answer contains even a remnant of those labels. You’re perfect! Don’t believe it; silence your thoughts and “know it.” You (really) can “know.”
Bozebits
Right now, even as you read this, everything tunes out, your focus narrows with only thoughtful concentration as you grasp the words you’re reading, and in the surrounding silence, it is the most simple and non-complex your life will ever be. But only in this moment and just because silence carries bliss, the bliss that is your home.
Awareness is not about focus, paying attention, or thinking. It’s the silence surrounding it. Let the words flow, but listen to the sounds they do not make. Now, smile as you return to your human experience, and thanks for spending a moment with me.
Bozebits
You and you alone are what’s possible in this moment and that which encompasses the infinite. You may critique the expanse with remnants of the past casting shadows over your awareness or overlook it with alternate dreams of something else, but still, at this moment, you hold it all even while you are busy missing it.
Awareness judges nothing and even holds space for all that you think otherwise and waits, eternally if need be, for you to recognize YOU as the birthing of all that is NOW. Clouds are not separate from the sky they form in. YOU are the sky and the beholder of it. Anything “other” is impossible.
Bozebits
The way to awareness is entered through the mind’s threshold, but not in the way you think. You must close the door of thought and feeling as you pass into stillness and leave all that was or might be without mental observance and its constant inquiry and interjection.
Silence is not an easy pill for any mind to take, but unlike so many “pills” you are told to swallow, silence opens into “knowing” that is otherwise unknowable when “mindful doors” are left open. Go on; step through and shut that door.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
The so-called collective consciousness is “out there,” and if you subscribe to any aspect of it or feed it with your sanction, regardless of its virtue or ideological bent, you then exist “out there” as well. Do you see? “Out there” is anywhere but where YOU, the real you, is.
Bozebits
Darkness is not the Sun’s opposite. The Sun is always free of darkness and always shines light. What YOU are outside your mind (body) is the same. It knows no opposites and shines eternal light, e.g., YOU are always “shining.” Do you see?
Only your mind calls in what “is not there” and makes it “there.” What to do? Wrest your mind of darkness and stop “calling.”
Bozebits
We see with our bodies but limit that seeing to the eyes. Close your eyes and experience the quiet “knowing” only your body can reveal. It will amaze you!