The sun shines for free. The apple tree gives its fruit for free. The rain falls for free. The birds sing for free. The breath comes and goes for free.
No one earned the sky. No one purchased the ocean. No one paid for existence.
Before anything is gained or lost, before anything is achieved, before anything is deserved…
THIS is already here.
Abundance without ownership. Wholeness without achievement. Love without conditions.
Whatever this is, whatever we are, there seems to be a longing… For what is real. For what is raw. For what is natural. For what is obvious. For what is true.
If you look out at the apparent world, at humanity, the news, wars, poverty, and unimaginable pain, none of that is denied. Of course not. It is what is appearing.
Radical nonduality is not a denial of the appearance of suffering. It is a denial of the reality of the separate sufferer.
Pain appears. Grief appears. Fear appears. Compassion appears. Tears appear.
What is seen through is the assumption that there is an independently existing self to whom all of this is happening.
The separate “me” is the illusion, not the appearance.
From within the dream of separation, suffering seems deeply personal. There seems to be someone resisting life, someone trying to escape pain or hold onto pleasure.
But when that apparent center is no longer taken to be real, what remains is simply what is appearing, exactly as it is.
Nothing has been removed from the world. Only the imagined owner of experience is absent.
PhilPhilms
“THIS is a free lunch.”
~ Richard Sylvester
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
But THIS is a free lunch.
The sun shines for free.
The apple tree gives its fruit for free.
The rain falls for free.
The birds sing for free.
The breath comes and goes for free.
No one earned the sky.
No one purchased the ocean.
No one paid for existence.
Before anything is gained or lost,
before anything is achieved,
before anything is deserved…
THIS is already here.
Abundance without ownership.
Wholeness without achievement.
Love without conditions.
The universe is one enormous gift. 🎁
And strangely enough…
there is no one receiving it.
Thank you for this quote 😍
@richardsylvester
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PhilPhilms
There isn’t a me!! 🤣🤣
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PhilPhilms
Happy as a CLAM 😍
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PhilPhilms
Whatever this is,
whatever we are,
there seems to be a longing…
For what is real.
For what is raw.
For what is natural.
For what is obvious.
For what is true.
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PhilPhilms
A simple noticing of nothing by no one 🤍
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PhilPhilms
Even though there isn’t a self, even though this is chaos, there is still the appearance of composure and propriety. Or not! 😅
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PhilPhilms
The alarm rings.
A hand reaches for the snooze button.
The bladder is full,
and the body wanders toward the bathroom.
Thirst appears.
Grogginess appears.
Coffee is made.
Warmth is held between two hands.
The body wakes.
Responsibilities appear,
so clothes are put on,
keys are picked up,
and the journey to work unfolds.
Bodies speak.
Bodies listen.
Bodies ask.
Bodies respond,
or they don’t.
Problems seem to arise.
Apparent decisions are made.
Sometimes there is hesitation.
Sometimes confusion.
Sometimes complete unknowing.
And sometimes,
clarity arrives without invitation,
and everything moves with effortless swiftness.
Work finishes.
Perhaps there is a longing for rest,
for laughter,
for music,
for silence,
for friends,
for a walk beneath the evening sky.
The body goes where it goes.
Thoughts appear.
Emotions appear.
Sensations appear.
Life continues to life.
And through it all,
there is no separate self
doing any of it.
Only the appearance of living.
Only the dance of causes beyond counting.
Nothing is in control.
And yet everything happens exactly as it happens.
No one lives this life.
Life simply lives itself.
Nothing…
appearing as everything.
No thing ever happens, but Love ❤️
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PhilPhilms
If you look out at the apparent world, at humanity, the news, wars, poverty, and unimaginable pain, none of that is denied. Of course not. It is what is appearing.
Radical nonduality is not a denial of the appearance of suffering. It is a denial of the reality of the separate sufferer.
Pain appears.
Grief appears.
Fear appears.
Compassion appears.
Tears appear.
What is seen through is the assumption that there is an independently existing self to whom all of this is happening.
The separate “me” is the illusion, not the appearance.
From within the dream of separation, suffering seems deeply personal. There seems to be someone resisting life, someone trying to escape pain or hold onto pleasure.
But when that apparent center is no longer taken to be real, what remains is simply what is appearing, exactly as it is.
Nothing has been removed from the world.
Only the imagined owner of experience is absent.
Suffering appears.
The sufferer doesn’t. 🤍
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PhilPhilms
The me is always waiting for something to happen.
It waits for success.
It waits for love.
It waits for peace.
It even waits for its own disappearance.
The death of me is imagined as one more future event that will finally bring fulfillment.
But that, too, is only another dream of tomorrow.
The irony is that the one waiting for liberation will never experience liberation, because it was never there to begin with.
Its absence is not an event.
Its disappearance is not an achievement.
Its death is not an experience.
Already, there is only what is appearing.
The waiting belongs to the story.
This never waits.
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PhilPhilms
How would one improve emptiness?
You can’t.
It has no cracks to mend,
no stains to wash,
no corners to polish.
It is perfect,
not because it possesses perfection,
but because it lacks nothing that could be improved.
Space cannot become more spacious.
Silence cannot become quieter.
Infinity cannot become larger.
Emptiness cannot become more empty.
This is already unconditional, undivided love ❤️
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