Your thoughts are aways helpful, Joan. On the one hand, the fruits of your dedication to Being alive and aware seem admirably advanced (tho not-teacher, you say you are). On the other, you connect as one of us ordinary humans with the full array of experience. This is love of life, love of our colleagues. My gratitude glows this morning. Thank you.
Hi Joan- lately your posts put into simple language how I see this world, our humanity and our joys and pains and sense of the miraculous and our built in drives to survive which cause all of the secondary suffering in the world( our hate, our arrogance, etc. etc)- So I thank you once again for the honest place you always inhabit in your own life and then share to help others on their path.
Yes, echoing thanks and gratitude for your writing, Joan, especially the more recent posts that include musings about love and connection. I've been thinking a lot about how much of the non-dual teaching out there emphasizes transcendence of the self and then implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, the world. This presentation has always felt a little off to me like it's missing a big piece of the mystery puzzle. The care, connection, relationship, or love often feels left out. I recently heard a snip-it from the Waking Up app where Scott Barry Kaufman discussed two aspects of self-transcendence, saying there is "the self-loss component, but there's also a connection to the world." He talked about how the connection part isn't being emphasized but that it's the part that should be what gets most highlighted. Of course, my understanding is constantly changing, but it seems like everything is about relationships, even if that relationship is "the One" relating to itself through the 10,000 things. My process has significantly benefited from including love and connection, which feels more valuable than focusing on just the self-loss-transcendence element. After all, what good this whole movement is if it doesn't lead to increased care, connection, and love for ourselves (no pun intended;), others, and the planet?
Thanks again, Joan, and I hope you're feeling much better after that gnarly flu.
Hi Joan, thank you as always. We seem to often be synchronistic in our particular “takes on life”. This OKness with everything is so simple and so profound. Compassion for those stuck in hatred while staying in touch with the shadow here. Humour and delight while acknowledging the pain and terror. All is well. Much love ❤️ 🙏🕉
Joan thank you. Your posts are always so clear and in my opinion right on point. I am about your age and have been at this for about 45 years. It really comes down to Here Now and Presence. That’s all we can know and your posts and books always emphasize this. No bs or speculation. You are the real deal (whatever the hell that means). You are a treasure and I’m deeply appreciative. Thanks
Thank you for these posts, and for your books, your words are always thoughtful and beautiful, somehow describing the indescribable, I am very grateful and look forward to reading each one.
"bottomless moment, here and now, just as it is, including our memories and accumulated info from past, visions and imaginations about future, and undivided presence that has room for everything"
Thanks Joan. Your post was a great way to start the day.
Your thoughts are aways helpful, Joan. On the one hand, the fruits of your dedication to Being alive and aware seem admirably advanced (tho not-teacher, you say you are). On the other, you connect as one of us ordinary humans with the full array of experience. This is love of life, love of our colleagues. My gratitude glows this morning. Thank you.
Hi Joan- lately your posts put into simple language how I see this world, our humanity and our joys and pains and sense of the miraculous and our built in drives to survive which cause all of the secondary suffering in the world( our hate, our arrogance, etc. etc)- So I thank you once again for the honest place you always inhabit in your own life and then share to help others on their path.
Yes, echoing thanks and gratitude for your writing, Joan, especially the more recent posts that include musings about love and connection. I've been thinking a lot about how much of the non-dual teaching out there emphasizes transcendence of the self and then implicitly, or sometimes explicitly, the world. This presentation has always felt a little off to me like it's missing a big piece of the mystery puzzle. The care, connection, relationship, or love often feels left out. I recently heard a snip-it from the Waking Up app where Scott Barry Kaufman discussed two aspects of self-transcendence, saying there is "the self-loss component, but there's also a connection to the world." He talked about how the connection part isn't being emphasized but that it's the part that should be what gets most highlighted. Of course, my understanding is constantly changing, but it seems like everything is about relationships, even if that relationship is "the One" relating to itself through the 10,000 things. My process has significantly benefited from including love and connection, which feels more valuable than focusing on just the self-loss-transcendence element. After all, what good this whole movement is if it doesn't lead to increased care, connection, and love for ourselves (no pun intended;), others, and the planet?
Thanks again, Joan, and I hope you're feeling much better after that gnarly flu.
Hi Joan, thank you as always. We seem to often be synchronistic in our particular “takes on life”. This OKness with everything is so simple and so profound. Compassion for those stuck in hatred while staying in touch with the shadow here. Humour and delight while acknowledging the pain and terror. All is well. Much love ❤️ 🙏🕉
My favorite quote from your essay: "We can notice that all we ever actually have is this one bottomless moment, here and now, just as it is—
So appreciate your candour. It helps 🙏💛
Joan thank you. Your posts are always so clear and in my opinion right on point. I am about your age and have been at this for about 45 years. It really comes down to Here Now and Presence. That’s all we can know and your posts and books always emphasize this. No bs or speculation. You are the real deal (whatever the hell that means). You are a treasure and I’m deeply appreciative. Thanks
Thank you for these posts, and for your books, your words are always thoughtful and beautiful, somehow describing the indescribable, I am very grateful and look forward to reading each one.
"bottomless moment, here and now, just as it is, including our memories and accumulated info from past, visions and imaginations about future, and undivided presence that has room for everything"
Thank you.