When Discomfort Knocks (by Jeff Foster)

By Jeff Foster

Just sitting with discomfort, without trying to escape or numb it in any way, without expectation, without a goal in mind, without seeking anything, including some abstract notion of 'comfort' – that’s the juicy place, the place of creative transformation, the place where newness shines.

For many years, I would just sit with grief, frustration, anger, fear, pain, loneliness, just resting in that bubbling, burning mess for hours and hours, without trying to escape or fix my experience, without hope, without a dream, without trying to 'accept', without time itself … until peace was discovered even in the midst of that storm, the unshakeable, non-conceptual, ever-present peace that I am, and have always been.

Instead of trying to escape discomfort, we let discomfort reveal its deeper secrets. We sit with discomfort and watch all boundaries between ‘me’ and ‘my discomfort’ melt away, until it is no longer ‘me sitting with my discomfort’ at all, and never was - there is only unspeakable embrace. We sit with frustration in the place where it has not yet coagulated into ‘I am frustrated’. We sit with fear prior to the resurrection of the image ‘I am the one who is afraid’. We sit with anger before the birth of our identity as ‘the angry one’. We know ourselves as the vast open space, the boundless and identity-less ocean that welcomes all of these waves, these raw, alive sensations,

Life After Death

Life After Death - Beach by Goran D

After death has touched you in some form, life is no longer the looming, serious, solid monster that it used to be.

Because the touch of death is the touch of the transcendental.

The walls are no longer solid. The sky no longer threatens to fall on your head. And you realise that you are much larger than the guns pointed at you.

Life now appears light, comfortable, magical, dream like. People no longer are a problem. Problems no longer are a problem. Because now you know the secret...

"There is no you to live your life but only life.
There is no you to comprehend, but only comprehension.
There is no you to think, but only thought.
There is no you to feel, but only feelings.
There is no you to love, but only love.
No you to hate, but only hate.
No you to die, but only death.
No you to understand, but only understanding."

Ciaran Healy
RuthlessTruth.com via theresno.me

Via theresno.me:

I: Robot

The ‘I’ people normally refer to, is a collection of past conditioning that manifests now as an imaginary robotic entity called the self.

Once this conditioning is seen for what it is, and that it is not who you really are now, then it can be transcended.

Who transcends it?

The body/mind system that held onto its imagination of self.

The robot (self) is false. It is past. It is reactionary and predictable. It is imagined.

It is not the truth.

The truth is always available now by looking at this experience of life and seeing if there is a look-er or see-er.

Is there a reader reading this now?

Or is there simply reading now?

Look at what exists now in this moment.

Is there really a you?

An alternative viewpoint... :)



Finally, Steve Jobs:

The Importance Of Breathing Properly & Deeply

FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real





1. Every thought we have is a catalyst for action.

2. Emotion is energy in motion.

3. Negative thinking is lower nature.

Before you Draw Conclusions

Especially the negative, terminal, 'no way out' ones....

Consider how huge existence is....Life is a huge affair...huge...wide..


Consider how limited your slumber laden view is...