I “ate up” your beautiful writing and then the writings and talk you suggested- and probably I will seek out the Slow Horses series you mention and will find it surely delicious.
However- I’m beginning to suspect all this reading and teachings are somehow keeping whatever “I” am in a holding pattern- not sure about this- just a feeling.
When I read your words, Joan- I feel a sense of finding water in a desert- or firm ground in deep mud-but- is this spiritual materialism?
What are the teachings? More to cling to? Am I clinging or being transported to a farther shore?
Should I stop reading and just spend more time in practice? My mind has me in a beautiful grip-
If you answer- your words will be placed at the upper most place in my “hyperstack” mind and it won’t mind at all.
I bow to whatever you or this is - apparently boundless and empty and arising to without being asked.
Thanks for turning me on to present isness. It seems to take courage to question my second hand information. I have the guts to let it just be. It does seem that the universe is user-friendly to me so that’s really helpful.
Small world. Hooked to Slow Horses also, reading The ten thousand things and just finished your Death The end of Improvement. Your book has been illuminating. A sincere and deeply greeting from Madrid, Spain
When you ask, where is love, I'm not sure where you are finding it missing. ???
As I say in the article: "What matters most to me is simply being alive, finding the beauty in ordinary life, enjoying what is, and beholding it all (when possible) from the perspective of wholeness or unconditional love, seeing that it all belongs, that it all goes together, that it cannot be otherwise in each moment from how it is."
Or as my friend Darryl Bailey says: "At some point, the heart may open to the totally indefinable, unpredictable, and often unwanted movement that life is. Love is that openness of heart."
There’s a pointing here, perhaps unintended, about the preciousness of Truth (or any of the capitalized words).
We’re wise to be cautious about what we label as Truth. Commoditized truth is no truth at all.
I wager that this and all the other capitalized words are more like paper thin porcelain jars, not the grain silos we imagine them to be.
Careful, rare handling and wise placement are what’s needed.
I “ate up” your beautiful writing and then the writings and talk you suggested- and probably I will seek out the Slow Horses series you mention and will find it surely delicious.
However- I’m beginning to suspect all this reading and teachings are somehow keeping whatever “I” am in a holding pattern- not sure about this- just a feeling.
When I read your words, Joan- I feel a sense of finding water in a desert- or firm ground in deep mud-but- is this spiritual materialism?
What are the teachings? More to cling to? Am I clinging or being transported to a farther shore?
Should I stop reading and just spend more time in practice? My mind has me in a beautiful grip-
If you answer- your words will be placed at the upper most place in my “hyperstack” mind and it won’t mind at all.
I bow to whatever you or this is - apparently boundless and empty and arising to without being asked.
Currently in the lost and found-
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Beautiful questions!
Thank you, Joan, for your beautiful generosity.
It is always much appreciated 🙏 ❤️
I hope physical therapy helps your back fracture. 🙏
As always, thank you for shedding light, and freedom from worrying about
Not Knowing What This Is.
Love it‼️‼️‼️
Thanks for turning me on to present isness. It seems to take courage to question my second hand information. I have the guts to let it just be. It does seem that the universe is user-friendly to me so that’s really helpful.
Bob M
Small world. Hooked to Slow Horses also, reading The ten thousand things and just finished your Death The end of Improvement. Your book has been illuminating. A sincere and deeply greeting from Madrid, Spain
Lovely, as always.
Love.
Where is love?
Seriously.
‘Cause “I LOVE”. Your sharing
When you ask, where is love, I'm not sure where you are finding it missing. ???
As I say in the article: "What matters most to me is simply being alive, finding the beauty in ordinary life, enjoying what is, and beholding it all (when possible) from the perspective of wholeness or unconditional love, seeing that it all belongs, that it all goes together, that it cannot be otherwise in each moment from how it is."
Or as my friend Darryl Bailey says: "At some point, the heart may open to the totally indefinable, unpredictable, and often unwanted movement that life is. Love is that openness of heart."
Check out my last post: https://joantollifson.substack.com/p/gratitude-and-suffering.
LOVE is all around!!! Thank you for being here. ❤️
Thank you.
Joan, so glad you will be publishing some of these Substacks in a book
I just bought Bare Bones Meditation
❤️