Anna Purna Living & Parenting

10 Notes on Parenting Teens

 

How Carrie-Anne Moss 

Stepped Out of Her Comfort Zone

BEING A MOTHER HAS TAUGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT MYSELF.

by Carrie Anne Moss

"My desire to grow is something I truly appreciate. I offered a course for a few years on Annapurna Living called Mother. What a deep and beautiful experience we all had exploring our journey as mothers. I recently came across some notes I had taken a few years ago while speaking to a dear friend/mother/mentor who has a grown daughter.  I wanted to share these notes with you— Perhaps one of you needs this inspiration. Parenting teens is often challenging.  May these notes support anyone who needs them. Notes from my friend Malin about parenting teens:

1. Be delighted with them just the way they are. 

Even with patterns of withdrawal, 

isolation and addiction to electronics.

2. Work on personal grief/anger/sadness 

(connected to teen) 

so we become less prone to leaking 

these emotions onto them.

3. Remember all is well and your connection 

is not lost. You have not lost your teen.

4. Make yourself available to your teen 

and patiently wait for them.

5. Go to them. 

Don’t expect them to come to you

6. Show no judgment. 

Don’t Fake enthusiasm. BE REAL.

7. Remember your teen wants you.

8. Loving limits firmly set. 

Drawing limits will never make you lose your child.

9. Do not make your children reassure you. 

It is not their job.

10. Having healthy mentors/friends 

who have crossed thresholds ahead of you 

of raising children is very helpful and reassuring.

Sending all you brave mamas so much love."

Carrie Anne Moss

Ocean of Serenity

 

Devoted, Dear To Life

Please Dear Life, 

Wholly Devoted and A Simple One Living A Kind Full Life 

Please, Just DON'T F%^k With My Energy. 

Hells Angels aka Devils Heavens, 

We Have Connections You Know... 🔔💋🔔🤣

Kindness is a super power

It doesn’t cost anything 

You don’t need to meditate for it 

Or search spiritual texts 

It’s not mysterious or esoteric 

It’s not political, religious or moral 

Yet is so powerful and healing 

It could utterly transform humanity 

If it were practiced always.

𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎 and hold the 𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 nature's 𝚜𝚘𝚏𝚝𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜,

𝚜𝚑𝚎 roars and 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚖𝚜, 

DEVOTION, loving

𝚜𝚑𝚎 finely, subtle fully 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚜.

love and wisdom is DEVOTION

𝚜𝚑𝚎 alchemizes 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚒𝚙𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 BLISS as pure Gold.

𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 infinite 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚎 moon sun 𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗

𝚋𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚐 and 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚐 yin yang 𝚙𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜.

Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar pic.twitter.com/8TA65mDs0x

— Chiku (@ChikuChill) September 10, 2023

Joyously Simple.

 

Stress is what you’re trying to be. Peace is who you are. 💙 pic.twitter.com/v02SqNAZuW

— Bhagavad Gita 𑁍 (@GitaShlokas) September 13, 2023

Weird & Wonder Full Culinary Practices

Is that really a thing… 

Beavers eating cabbage…? 

I’d rather watch a cabbage eat beaver… 

Now T H A T would be uniquely delicious 

Tbh 😂

🥬 🍽️ 👄 🦫

Wabi Sabi

K I N T S U G I 

we’re all in this together & it starts with you! 

 

Created in 2015... Don't Say You Didn't Know, This is NOT New & The Future is Already Here, Just Unevenly Distributed.

 "Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It" 

Mary Oliver

4 months left until 2024! Don't let anyone waste your time. Go after your dreams. pic.twitter.com/5vgrfiRAtp

— Wakeup People (@WakeupPeopIe) September 12, 2023

"Upstream" by Mary Oliver

Concentration is indeed a difficult art, art’s art, and its difficulty lies in the constant conciliation of the dissonance between self and world — a difficulty hardly singular to the particular conditions of our time.

"Two hundred years before social media, the great French artist Eugène Delacroix lamented the necessary torment of avoiding social distractions in creative work; a century and a half later, Agnes Martin admonished aspiring artists to exercise discernment in the interruptions they allow, or else corrupt the mental, emotional, and spiritual privacy where inspiration arises.

But just as self-criticism is the most merciless kind of criticism and self-compassion the most elusive kind of compassion, self-distraction is the most hazardous kind of distraction, and the most difficult to protect creative work against.

How to hedge against that hazard is what beloved poet Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935–January 17, 2019) explores in a wonderful piece titled

“Of Power and Time,” found in the altogether enchanting Upstream: Selected Essays (public library).

Mary returns to the problem of concentration, which for the artist is a form, perhaps the ultimate form, of consecration:
The working, concentrating artist is an adult who refuses interruption from himself, who remains absorbed and energized in and by the work — who is thus responsible to the work… Serious interruptions to work, therefore, are never the inopportune, cheerful, even loving interruptions which come to us from another.

"It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. It does not include mustard, or teeth. It does not extend to the lost button, or the beans in the pot. My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at three o’clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all.

There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time."

Upstream is a tremendously vitalizing read in its totality, grounding and elevating at the same time. 

Complement it with Oliver on love and its necessary wildness, what attention really means, and the measure of a life well lived, 

then revisit Jane Hirshfield on the difficult art of concentration."

Maria Popova via The Marginalian

Fresh Daily Rises

Our problem is how to die to everything that we know, so that we can live; to die to the injustices, the pleasures and the pains. I do not know if you have ever tried to die to something?⁠⁠

I assure you that it is only when you die that there is a fresh mind; but you cannot die if you are not passionate. 

It is only the empty mind that is rich, not the mind that is full of knowledge beliefs, experiences, hopes and despairs - such a mind is worn out, such a mind is not a new mind, it is an experienced mind, and an experienced mind can never learn. 

It is only the empty mind, the mind that is dead to the past, to everything, that is rich because such a mind, being passionate, can receive, and therefore knows what it is to love.⁠
⁠
Sirs, have you ever really felt deeply the inequality of life why you have and another has not, why you are gifted and the other is not? 

If you have really felt it passionately, then you will know that love knows no inequality. 

To see the man who rides in an expensive car and enjoy what he enjoys, without envy; to see also the beggar at the roadside and feel for him in his wretchedness;-this is to know love, and that there is no answer to inequality except love.⁠
⁠
Religion, after all, is the discovery of love, and love is something to be discovered from moment to moment. 

You must die to the love that you have known a second before, in order to ever know anew what love is. And love can only come into being when there is this passion of feeling. 

Then, out of that feeling there is action, and that action will not bind you because love never binds. 

And so religion is not the thing that we have now, which is a miserable thing, a dark thing, a deadly thing. 

Religion implies clarity, light, passion; it implies a mind that is empty and therefore able to receive that immeasurable, incorruptible richness.⁠
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J. Krishnamurti⁠
Bombay 9th Public Talk 24th December 1958⁠

Green Acres Koan

“Yin teaches us the wisdom of surrender. Yin chooses to yield even when everyone else is getting ahead. Like an inner earth, yin is the soil in which we gestate our dreams, refine our intuition, listen to our bodies, and come into the stillness of our centre. When actions arise from the receptive still point they have real meaning. Ideas that emerge from this level of imagination serve more than the individual: they serve the great ecosystem from which our well-being is drawn.”

Excerpt from 

“Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home” 

by Toko-pa Turner (belongingbook.com)

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Here is the utter simplicity of the matter: 

In the absence of 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 

With any thing, 

𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶?

Who Am I?  

Or better still, 

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶? 

 

~ Wu Hsin

P.L.C.

aka Roy Melvyn

“You must find your own way. Unless you find it yourself, it will not be your own way and will take you nowhere. Earnestly live your truth as you have found it, act on the little you have understood. It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness”

― Roy Melvyn, The Essential Nisargadatta 

The following text is a summary of Nisargadatta Maharaj’s teaching and was written by Maurice Frydman, the translator and editor of ‘I Am That’, Nisargadatta’s most widely read work. 

The text was entitled ‘Nisarga Yoga’ which, as Maurice Frydman explains below, means ‘the easy or natural yoga’, and it was originally published as an appendix to ‘I Am That’.

"The discussions held and teachings given would have been the same ten thousand years ago and will be the same ten thousand years hence. There will always be conscious beings wondering about the fact of their being conscious and enquiring into its cause and aim. Whence am I? Who am I? Whither am I? Such questions have no beginning and no end. And it is crucial to know the answers, for without a full understanding of oneself, both in time and in timelessness, life is but a dream, imposed on us by powers we do not know, for purposes we cannot grasp.

Maharaj is not a learned. There is no erudition behind his homely Marathi; authorities he does not quote, scriptures are rarely mentioned; the astonishingly rich spiritual heritage of India is implicit in him rather than explicit. No rich Ashram was ever built around him and most of his followers are humble working people cherishing the opportunity of spending an hour with him from time to time.

Simplicity and humility are the keynotes of his life and teachings; physically and inwardly he never takes the higher seat; the essence of being on which he talks, he sees in others as clearly as he sees it in himself. He admits that while he is aware of it, others are not yet, but this difference is temporary and of little importance, except to the mind and its ever-changing content. 

When asked about his Yoga, he says he has none to offer, 

no system to propound, no theology, cosmology, 

psychology or philosophy. 

He knows the true nature – his own and his listeners’ – and he points it out. 

The listener cannot see it because he cannot see the obvious, simply and directly. All he knows, he knows with his mind, stimulated with the senses. That the mind is a sense in itself, he does not even suspect.

The Nisarga Yoga, the ‘natural’ Yoga of Maharaj, is disconcertingly simple – the mind, which is all becoming, must recognise and penetrate its own being, not as being this or that, here or there, then or now, but just as timeless being.

This timeless being is the source of both life and consciousness. In terms of time, space and causation it is all-powerful, being the causeless cause; all-pervading, eternal, in the sense of being beginningless, endless and ever-present. Uncaused, it is free; all-pervading, it knows; undivided, it is happy. It lives, it loves, and it has endless fun, shaping and re-shaping the universe. Every human has it, every human is it, but not all know themselves as they are, and therefore identify themselves with the name and shape of their bodies and the contents of their consciousness.

To rectify this misunderstanding of one’s reality, the only way is to take full cognisance of the ways of one’s mind and to turn it into an instrument of self-discovery. The mind was originally a tool in the struggle for biological survival. It had to learn the laws and ways of Nature working hand-in-hand can raise life to a higher level. 

But, in the process the mind acquired the art of symbolic thinking and communication, the art and skill of language.

 Words became important. Ideas and abstractions acquired an appearance of reality, the conceptual replaced the real, with the result that man now lives in a verbal world, crowded with words and dominated by words.

Obviously, for dealing with things and people words are exceedingly useful. But they make us live in a world totally symbolic and, therefore, unreal. To break out from this prison of the verbal mind into reality, one must be able to shift one’s focus from the word to what it refers to, the thing itself.

The most commonly used word and most laden with feelings, and ideas is the word ‘I’. Mind tends to include in it anything and everything, the body as well as the Absolute. In practice it stands as a pointer to an experience which is direct, immediate and immensely significant. To be, and to know that one is, is most important. And to be of interest, a thing must be related to one’s conscious existence, which is the focal point of every desire and fear. For, the ultimate aim of every desire is to enhance and intensify this sense of existence, while all fear is, in its essence, the fear of self-extinction.

To delve into the sense of ‘I’ – so real and vital – in order to reach its source is the core of Nisarga Yoga. Not being continuous, the sense of ‘I’ must have a source from which it flows and to which it returns. This timeless source of conscious being is what Maharaj calls the self-nature, self-being, swarupa.

As to the methods of realising one’s supreme identity with self-being, Maharaj is peculiarly non-committal. 

He says that each has his own way to reality, 

and that there can be no general rule. 

But, for all the gateway to reality, by whatever road one arrives to it, is the sense of ‘I am’. It is through grasping the full import of the ‘I am’, and going beyond it to its source, that one can realise the supreme state, which is also the primordial and the ultimate. The difference between the beginning and the end lies only in the mind. 

When the mind is dark or turbulent, the source is not perceived. When it is clear and luminous, it becomes a faithful reflection of the source. The source is always the same – beyond darkness and light, beyond life and death, beyond the conscious and the unconscious.

This dwelling on the sense ‘I am’ is the simple, 

easy and natural Yoga, the Nisarga Yoga. 

There is no secrecy in it and no dependence; 

no preparation is required and no initiation. 

Whoever is puzzled by his very existence as a conscious being and earnestly wants to find his own source, can grasp the ever-present sense of ‘I am’ and dwell on it assiduously and patiently, till the clouds obscuring the mind dissolve and the heart of being is seen in all its glory.

The Nisarga Yoga, when persevered in and brought to its fruition, results in one becoming conscious and active in what one always was unconsciously and passively. There is no difference in kind – only in manner – the difference between a lump of gold and a glorious ornament shaped out of it. Life goes on, but it is spontaneous and free, meaningful and happy.

Maharaj most lucidly describes this natural, spontaneous state, but as the man born blind cannot visualise light and colours, so is the unenlightened mind unable to give meaning to such descriptions. 

Expressions like dispassionate happiness, affectionate detachment, timelessness and causelessness of things and being – they all sound strange and cause no response. Intuitively we feel they have a deep meaning, and they even create in us a strange longing for the ineffable, a forerunner of things to come, but that is all. 

As Maharaj puts it: words are pointers, 

they show the direction but they will not come along with us.

 Truth is the fruit of earnest action, words merely point the way."

Maurice Frydman

The Still Point

Silence says

So much, 

In her subtle sensual

sharing. 

Quiet distant 

Thunder, 

stormy skies Wild, free, 

unhindered. 

Let It Be 

Exactly as it is, 

Cyclonic shifts release 

Authentic untamed

Bliss. 

Not feral, 

not caged, 

not a clogged Controlling, 

simply pure, 

purr, purr, 

pet, 

Let Her Feline 

Warmly 

Flow. 

A

Dam undaunted

dam stroked, 

unholed,

slow, 

Undamned boiling waters over 

flowing rocky rapids fluid falls 

her steaming brook 

alive as nature's 

love, she smiles and 

Simply brightly Bubbles;

simply pauses more in

Cyclic flooding torrent

coming 

forward; 

Clouds crested a milky weigh 

sweat storm laden, 

stoked, stroked a

Loosened humid rumble

Moisture mustered 

wet streams come

One gushing flush

vent light vent bolts pass vast sky 

droppeth Her gentle 

rains from heaven,

One

Blue trenchant ocean 

Receives relaxed 

silk sea spread can well

Come all, 

ocean swallows frothy salty 

each atom, 

each cellular Division 

each undivided holy drop supporting more; 

Stands by you 

Stands with you 

Stands as you 

an Inner standing, 

drenched tips dancing

Dance dance two skins to skins

post climatic sky storm laden 

shifting rolling 

fury, climax,

Post 

The Still Points, 

changing sky, 

breathing clouds, 

exhausted storm, 

lightning wild electric buzz

demure denouement 

comes clear fresh

One Undivided, 

One Eternal, 

One Infinite Vital

Sky, 

One ocean, 

clear received

as True Nature knows

no mind no

Time.

Unschooling With Taylor's "Leaf & Learn"

Learning isn’t something that has to be handed to you by someone certified by the government. 

That’s not how it works.
If you:

✔️went to school
✔️then college
✔️then got a 9-5 job

—and feel like you’ve checked all those boxes & you’re done learning new skills…

then yeah, I can see how the idea of unschooling would seem super wild. 🤯

Unschooling only makes sense when you have an intimate relationship with learning. 

When you know how to teach yourself, how to practice a craft, how to fail, how to persevere.

This is why entrepreneurs are the most likely folks to unschool:

 because we already know how to carve our own way in the world. We know how to find success without following the main path.

We are open-minded enough to see multiple ways of doing things. 

I would never mock someone for choosing public school. 

But the amount of aggression and hate I’ve seen recently towards our decision to homeschool is SO telling….and if you’re someone who spends your free time scrolling on social media & attacking a family who is literally just minding their business…what does that say about the “education” you’re so proud of? 

Where are your hobbies & interests? 

Why is this how you’re spending your “well-educated” time?

Thanks for reading 😂🫶🏼

Taylor Moran

raising boys in the woods

come explore with us!

☀️🎣🐍🍃🌲🐌🪵

taylor@famfluence.com

UNSCHOOLING BUNDLE 

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

“Hyperactivity is an iatrogenic disease created by schools. 

Boys should play more than they do. WAY more.”

I had to look up what “iatrogenic” meant — 

it means “an illness caused by a treatment.”

I don’t know if I think schools are *causing* hyperactivity. 

I think it’s setting an unreasonable standard of INactivity, 

so that any level of unapproved activity is labeled abnormal.

If a child’s education revolves around activity — 

then who’s going to call them hyperactive? 

When it might just be….active?

What if kids were NOT TOLD

 to focus on reading/writing/math/worksheets? 🤯

It that stuff bores them to death, 

and all they wanna do is run around in the grass, 

climb trees, and play in the mud? 

Or play basketball? 

Or color and paint? 

Or focus on piano or guitar or dance?

What if we’re asking them to do this narrow set of things that grown-ups 

just decided are the things they’ve got to learn?

Math: make sure you can solve for (-x)

History: don’t forget the battle at Lexington and Concord!!

Writing: past participles, guys!

Science: noble gases, anyone?

Seriously? 

Am I the only one who thinks school is ridiculous? 

Did any of this stuff actually prepare you for the job you have now? 

Or would that time have been better spent learning to LOVE YOUR LIFE. 

To be kind, help others, actually socialize. 

Learning to choose a skill, commit to it, wrestle with it, & 

expand your consciousness as you discover who you are?

Instead of getting slammed with busywork.

How magical (and effective) could education 

ACTUALLY be — if we let it?

*FOR THE MOST PART* 

Learners don’t have problems. 

Schools have problems. 

We’re just too lazy or

too stupid to fix the schools. 

So we “fix” the kids instead.

🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

From Love, NOT For Love.

 

"Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love. Yes, lovers lose their egos, but they don't give them to each other. Their egos simply evaporate." -Osho

— OSHO (@OSHO) September 10, 2023

Simple, Direct, Connected & Paying Attention

 

With In

"Instead of searching for what you do not have,

 find out what it is that you have never lost.” 

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Why One Kind Seed of Course!

Sometimes people can't reciprocate because they can't give you what they can't give themselves. 

Those who are at war with themselves can't give you peace.
Those who betray themselves can't give you loyalty. 

Those who lie to themselves can't give you honesty. 

See the situation as it is in reality.

Let them be as they are. 

Accept the present moment as if you had chosen it. This DOES NOT mean to agree to it. 

Let the reality of each bare moment be exactly what it is. 

If you meet someone whose frequency is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along. 

Don't fight meaningless battles. 

Don't lower your vibe and enmesh with someone else's crisis train. 

Don't enable choices of behavior or core values that do not align with yours. 

Don't engage with insecure, dis integrated egos. 

Meet those still attached to thought with love, 

Meet those stuck in the depressive past or projecting an anxious future, with love. 

Listen to even those who make no sense and meet them with acceptance, kindness and compassion. 

Not every opinion is worth your energy. 

Know who you are, know what you don't want, know what you deserve and know that is enough. 

Don't settle for less, as your integrity, your standards, your non negotiable ethics and core values, are not expectations. If you ever have expectations of others, projecting onto others, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Standards are NOT expectations. 

Instead communicate your needs, open, honestly, simply and directly. 

Non violent communication starts with interest, engagement, paying attention and listening. 

Non violent communication continues with a flowing, presence of reciprocity. 

Don't argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Don't waste your time with one sided energy exchanges. 

Don't get drawn into other people's ignorance of Self or trying way too hard to be a people pleaser seeking an external validation. 

Validation, also known as Self Love, is an inside job. 

Self Love and self validation is The Return to an unadulterated wholeness, the return to who you have always been. 

Instead of people pleasing and/or projecting a dis integrated, unconscious, insecure ego, be kindly, quietly, consistently authentic. Be real, be you, be whole, be present. 

Firstly, 

Know your own True Nature, know who you really are, get to know the knower by asking Who Am I? 

Who Am I? is a koan that non negates and dissolves the questioner. 

The question Who Am I? does NOT require an answer until there are NO more answers to give. 

Once there are no more answers as there are no more questions, you come home to wholeness. 

Home is the realization that there is NO realization, NO journey, NO path, NO choice

to be who you've always been, you finally get the Great Cosmic Joke, 

we all already are one creature in one creation as originally conceived;

not above or below

not special or entitled

not separate or ascended

not enlightened or more woke

not stuck in the past or in projecting in the future

not coming from a fractured, dis integrated insecure ego

then you may actually laugh out loud at The Great Cosmic Joke... 

enough is enough and The Proof Is In The Pudding...

aware, centred and present for you can NOT be anything else

once any ignorance of Your Own True Nature is removed

once all attachments to thought are dropped

once you connect to the infinite absolute that you already are

once you accept your True Self wholly, totally, absolutely, with

self care, self love, self acceptance, self awareness, 

Life always starts authentically with YOU,

knowing WHO you really are... 

Who Am I? 

Really?

whole and complete and grounded, 

every thing else that is NOT whole and complete and grounded (as conceived)

is an unreal facade. 

Life revolves around you, 

The True You, 

it is NOT false humility to be so full of YOUR true self, 

FIRST, 

confident in your own True Self, 

humble in your own True Nature and a

contained whole self in your own quiet thunder.

From LOVE, not for love.

From enough, 

NOT from a needy, greedy, seedy, seeking, clingy, leaky deficit. 

Enough IS enough and there has always been enough.

Once you are whole with a reintegrated ego, where a projecting attached MIND does not run the show.

Once whole, 

once returned and re integrated as LOVE, as The Happiness, as Bliss, 

the return to who you have always been, 

as originally conceived, 

You do not think any more or any less of any thing or any one else. 

One creature in One creation, 

equal to all, 

whole, complete, absolutely totally YOU 

From Love, NOT For Love. 

We all already are accepted and included and enough is enough exactly as conceived

That return to Wholeness is NOT a goal, not a purpose, not a struggle, not difficult at all.

To Be unadulterated, To Be whole, To Be YOU, 

simply means to Be simple, Be kind, Be direct and gratefully joyous. 

AS conceived. 

The quicker we realize enough is enough exactly as creator intended 

then we simply get on a live a whole life worth living. 

Not attached, not addicted, not entitled, not enmeshed, not co dependent, 

not stuck up or stuck constantly seeking, 

looking, looking, looking everywhere for something we already are

projecting anxieties in a futile dis integrated ego pissing contest 

projecting unswept blunt sharp shards of an insecure ego who does NOT yet know them Self, 

projecting a false people pleasing to fit into a dis integrated ego comparison contest, 

projecting unconscious wounds and intergenerational inherited conditioning and/or traumas, 

why do that to Your True Self...

why settle for less than wholeness? 

why waste energy on insecure fractured mind attached try hards? 

why invest your well earned peace in other's crisis? 

why enable other's attachment to conditional thinking 

why THINK and BELIEVE that you are going to show them The Right Way... how absurd... 

why THINK, that you magic elixir snake oil healer, 

why THINK that YOU are going to fix them and tell them and heal them and argue with them...

why stay attached to THOUGHTs at all? 

why engage with these adolescent energies, the still lost in living? 

why engage with try hards trying way too hard to win at life, 

why attach to leaky thoughts and leaky crisis dis integrated ego driven THINKERS? 

leaky telling and leaky selling and taking taking taking, doing whatever it takes... 

what a convoluted crisis!

repeated crisis after crisis of a dis integrated, insecure and narrow, very limited ego 

addicted to showing other's who is Boss, 

addicted to projecting forcefully a narrow track, a limited lived life

addicted to repeated rituals just to get them through... 

addicted to THINKING they know, trapped in intellect, trapped in The Conditioned Mind, 

that attachment, 

that addiction to One Happy Hour, 

that addiction to One Happy External Way

that addiction to an adolescent insecure ego, 

addicted to mind attached Thoughts and thinking, 

addicted to stale, addicted to stuck, a perpetual crisis seeking hard something we all already are

addicted to wasting energy and loopy loop on broken record repeat of here we go again... 

wah wah wah whine whine wine... victims united in societal compete and comparisons

How freaking exhaustipating... 

How tiring...

How insane...

(and WTF why only ONE happy hour per day...? on the mat, on the bar stool, on the ritual pew)

That attachment to thought, that addiction to thought, those unconscious conditioned thoughts, 

That ritual round a bout loopy loop mind crisis attachment

Some people ever get given expert external labels of different levels of mind attachment 

that they then believe, 

possibly forever... and that's OK as long as YOU believe it... as Your reality 

BUT on reflection, are those labels really you? 

Or have you been disempowered by society or an external expert or church or school or media or even your own family who may want you to stay conditioned and attached to THINKING as a labelled controlled, whatever, 

because it soothes their need for unconscious control and enmeshment and enabling? 

Here We Go Again... loopy loop noisy THINKING attachments 

That blind leading the blind and calling it societal success...

That remaining ignorance of True Whole Self...

still with a dis integrated attached thought insecure far from whole ego... 

not yet answering, to NO more answers, 

Who Am I? 

Non negated, simple, sound, common, ordinary, everywhere.

Once you get out of the ivory elevated tower 

of a comparative, competing, convoluted dis integrated ego

There is Simply Only One Creature In One Creation,

who YOU have always been, 

maybe just got lost along The Way... 

maybe just got covered over with false terms and conditions inherited along The Way...

maybe just believed all those noisy attached mind thoughts of comparing and competing and winning at life? 

maybe just listened too often to an external societal collective thought rather than your True Self? 

maybe just too weak, to blind, too confused and dis integrated ego driven to see who you really are? 

maybe just lost in living and attached to a facade of try hard? 

maybe no fucking clue who you really are so you just follow along The Family or Societal Script? 

maybe a sheep blindly still following the easiest route?

maybe a deaf, dumb and blind false self following The Loudest Leaky Route? 

doing as you were conditioned TO Believe, attached to thought, sold a story of someone else's success? 

maybe the work required is just too hard?

that self surrender, to really go within the dark messy past, to heal your own family or origin wounds, 

to extract and see the simplicity of common, ordinary and everywhere is unity and strength

You DON'T have to be busy and stressed and worry and addicted to thought

Once You Know Who You Really are... 

beyond healing

beyond logic or reason

beyond attached thoughts and convoluted thinking

who am i? 

Simple, see? 

Slow down within and ask until there are NO more questions and NO more answers

simply cease The Try Hard Reaching! 

welcome home to The Whole re integration

simple, common, ordinary, everywhere...

infinite, limitless, unattached to thought, 

ONE totally connected wholeness

FROM love

NOT for love

Maybe some loud projectors, 

Maybe some love and light, false facades are still sharply dis integrated ego's 

and are still not even getting close to Knowing 

Who Am I? 

Really? 

Still busy THINKING attached thoughts, 

Still busy believing and attached to "The Script" 

they've been sold by society or family or school or church

"That's The Way We've Always Done It" 

stuck, external expert labelled, stigma and dogmatic, people pleasing, perfectionism, lost in living, 

still attached to "That's The Way I've Always Done It"

Not even courageous enough to question anything for them self, 

happy to blindly follow attached intellect and attached thoughts and The Attached Inherited Program, 

Following tradition of dead people, 

retired from life already, retired from learning already, and waiting earnestly to die, 

attached to thoughts,

attached to following, 

attached to making as much noise and staying so far out, disembodied, out in front of the true self 

lost in living, reaching ego hard, trying hard winning and whinging and running around like a headless chook, anxious, stressed, worried, addicted, hooked on people pleasing patterns and perfectionism, 

still attached to The Good Ole' Daze... attached to thinking they know, and if they don't DEFINITELY KNOW they assume they do, or literally make shit up to suit the stuck record narrative they need to believe to quell the anxiety of NOT being able to sit comfortably with uncertainty... 

and on the crisis continues 

UNTIL one day the crisis of loopy loop gets all too much and they slow TF down and actually go within to firstly ask

who am i?

really? 

and that is the first step in the reality of coming home, fully, completely, totally, wholly. 

From Love

NOT for love. 

the try hards so busy chasing success and chasing their own complex tales...

 tiny box comfort stories, limited attached minds, stuck, on repeat, 

needing more more more to plug That Endless Leaky Deficit of  Mind believing 

that somehow they are NOT already enough

and trying hard to be someone they already are...

and wearing them self out by looking looking looking everywhere for The Obvious, 

what we all already are...

why do THAT to your fake self?

how insane, 

how mind afflicted, 

how ridiculously attached to stuck thoughts letting The Mind Rule... 

believing that they are NOT already naturally whole...

busy trying hard to get somewhere

They Already Are... 

no wonder people need a good stiff drink or 

hour long detox on The Yoga Mat or 

kneeling down praying for some salvation 

when they are so attached to thinking still... all those daily rituals just to get you through FFS, 

so conditioned and attached to mind and fractured dis integrated ego... that is... 

not yet knowing who is the knower? 

who am i? really? 

when enough is enough and we all already are whole... 

there is no where to get to, 

there is no where else to be except wholly here, 

no try, no hard, no addiction, no confliction of Self, 

no BS reaching and competing and confusion of self 

although people rush around trying to find themselves or rush around vacantly trying wasting energy, 

addicted to one hour on the yoga mat or 

addicted to the meditative bar stool or 

addicted to the dogmatic church pew

believing, attached to unconscious, unquestioned, thoughts, 

believing an outside external force that tells, that sells, that yells and dictates, 

called society, called church, called media, called thought, called belief, called 

That's Just Who I Am... stuck in patterns of attachment, 

stale, stuck and rutted out in co dependent attached thought patterns

repenting false sins, 

bad and good? 

stuck pre judgements, 

projecting a prejudice, subtle racist, mansplaining misogynist, ageists, 

compete, compare, complex anxious future dealers addicted over thinkers, 

attached to thought and thinking that's the way we've always done it

narrow, limited, small life boxes, followers, following The Crowd, 

Following 

Obediently 

Fear Full 

Following Unquestioning The Dominant Insecure Loudest Controlling Boss of Society

(they pay your wages after all...) 

Toe The Line

Do As You Are Told

Follow Blindly 

Be a Drone Robotic Productive Worker

Don't Dare Ask any "Uncomfortable Questions" 

Don't dare suggest a better more expansive, less limited way... 

Don't dare see clearly there is a FAR better growth path for all, 

a more creative way, a more chilled out way for all, 

less stress, more efficient, 

less pressure, a more effective way

less dis integrated wah wah ego of gas lighting "my way or the highway"

insecure con troll freaks complexly convoluted, insincere and trying waaaaay too hard, 

insecure needing to take and be so controlling and not even listening to alternatives, 

Meet those still attached to thought with compassion, care and kindness

intergenerational inherited conditions are hard to let go of,

choose courage and gift time and real growth to get to NO more answers to, Who Am I? 

choose single pointed focus and pay attention to effort to go within and Know The Real Self

create unique ways to hold space, kindness, compassion for those exposed to VERY real "trauma"

Know who you are, 

Know what you don't want, 

Know what you deserve

and 

Don't settle for less

wholeness, totality, 

absolutely no more answers needed as The Unwavering Self is Clearly, Simply Known. 

Then we open to The Flow and 

We ARE The Love, We ARE The Happiness, We are The Unadulterated BLISS

From Love NOT For Love

From Enough, NOT for a leaky needy greedy seedy deficit, 

From Knowing Enough IS Enough and always has been, 

The Magic The Mystery The Flow

The Simplicity of Living a WHOLE Life

all the discerning layers 

that NO ONE is above OR below

Who Am I? 

falsely attached to paying business model tithes and dues and taxing times

attached to compliance and constriction and complexity

for a possible ONE Day in the distant anxious future 

an entry to an anxious promised woo woo future that may or may not even happen, 

a stress relief, 

an artificial loosener

a spiritual by pass, 

an thought attached addiction sold as social acceptance

a fractured mind, a limited mind, a slowly attached mind, 

stuck, complaining, whining, victim mentality 

depressed attached to past 

anxious attached to future

attached to anywhere BUT here, 

a waste of energy trying hard to get somewhere 

we all 

already are... 

How absurd...how insane...how mentally exhausting

Instead 

Listen to The Subtle

Feel The Roaring Silence

Somatically Free and at Ease Within

Peace is WHO you already are

Peace is NOT created by exclusion of noise or living a life wrapped in plastic masks 

Peace is being unwavering, unadulterated. rock solid and simple within 

Peace is Knowing no more answers to Who Am I? 

Peace is Non negated, whole, total, absolute and whole. 

Some may come to test That Peace.

Your non porous boundaries simply repel all that attempts To Attach or Attack Your Peace. 

Meet these mind attached try hards, 

the NOT peace full, 

the NOT knowing who they are yet, 

the NOT liberated within, 

the depressed and anxious and fractured attached thought FULL thinkers

meet them all with kindness, care and compassion,

BUT do not absorb unconscious, insecure, insincere masking leaks

The ones who THINK they know

The ones still attached to Believing 

they know YOU better than YOU already know your True Self

The unconscious,

The projectors, 

The try hards competing hard and comparing harder 

and then ignorantly believing there is such a thing as "enlightenment" 

There is NO path, no journey, no choice, no enlightenment

We already ALL

are as conceived 

ONCE we drop all that we are not...

NO more answers for there are NO more questions

we simply now know our Unadulterated Unwavering Rock Solid Strong and Courageous 

True Nature

Be

simple simple simple

and to be simple is The Hardest Thing for 

conditioned, competing, comparing, convoluted and dis integrated, attached thinking ego

humans to be. 

slow down and smell the roses

slow down internally and drop the insecure projecting dis integrated facades

slow down and answer, until non negation, Who Am I? 

That can ONLY happen right now and takes NO time, NO effort or NO investment

it is simply who we all already are, one creature in one creation. 

Laugh with Your True Whole Self, first, 

The Total One as True Nature, 

Cry with Your True Self, first, 

The Great Cosmic Joker... 

It is all OK, just don't be an unkind asshole, ever, 

for we all are already complete 

without having to do a god damned thing... 

To feel that all your exquisite emerald geometry was once encoded in a seed

all that knowledge, 

all that beauty, 

all the perfect mathematics of it, 

compacted in a handful of genes inside a tiny One Seeded orb. 

A living poem.

Who Am I? 

Really... 

Get On It 

The Great Light House 

Solid Rock Stars... 

Stand Tall and Visible, 

NOT running around looking for souls to save... 

You got some MORE vibrant life flashing to do... 

Luceat Lux Vestra and All The Best. 

“Poetry Leaves Room For Silence”

Be Silent & Pay Attention

Happiness is your natural state, it arises effortlessly when you let go of unnecessary complexity. In essence, you already are happiness itself. Yet the mind habitually seeks fulfillment through accumulating knowledge, achievements, and experiences. It constantly projects itself into imagined futures, layering complexity upon complexity. This constant mental noise and motion covers up the simplicity that is your true nature. All that is required is to stop seeking, wanting, and grasping. Return to the simplicity of this moment, just as it is. Simply be with whatever arises, without resistance. Don't make enlightenment into a goal, it is already here, waiting to be revealed when mental clutter subsides. You needn't work hard or acquire anything to know inner joy. It spontaneously emerges when you surrender your demand on this moment and return to the simplicity of the present. Rest in awareness, let life live through you. This ordinary moment, just as it is, contains all the happiness you seek. 

'Listen' & 'Silent'

 

Same Same 

 

Beware "The Telling" Life Coaches

 

Especially Those Who remain attached to

 

THINKING 

 

They Know.

 

Instead, 

 

Come Deeper

 

Into The Complete Abyss of One Momentary Breath.

 

Then another… then another…

 

pause more,

 

pay better attention,

 

listen more deeply as the silence,

 

notice The Ever So Subtle, Finely Nuanced Pause,

 

Return to and Respect That Gap,

 

Respect The Calm Abiding Always Rising,

 

Respect The Liminal Lucid Nascent Spaces,

 

Respect Nature’s Infinite Spacious,

 

Respect Life’s Deeper Gracious Gifts, 

 

Respect The Always Rising Eternal Inner Peace.

 

Never Be In A Rush To Re Fill This Newly Created Inner Grace.

 

Simply Learn To That Enough is Enough,

 

Sit With Uncertainty,

 

Learn To Roll With The Daily Motions,

 

Learn To Accept The Present Moment as if You Had Chosen it,

 

Learn to Surrender To True Nature, Your Own!

 

And Who Am I?

 

Get to know the knower, one creature in one creation,

 

A Wholly Alive One Breath True Nature,

 

the simplest, most common and ordinary thing on earth. Us! 

 

 

Be silent and pay attention. pic.twitter.com/glqVzNEjb6

— Divine Light Within (@within_divine) September 4, 2023