miscellany

believing in nothing is believing in what is empty
of everything but the potential for anything

no one is an enlightened being / Shunryu Suzuki: “Strictly speaking …” (!?)

enlightened being is believing in nothing and delighting in being,
in feeling, and in doing well no more than need be done to be and let be,
to live and let live in nonjudgmental, choiceless awareness*
with love, compassion joy, and equanimity (!?)

enlightened being is taking steps to be and and let be in this way

one set of steps:

• see the two truths* and believe in nothing as the absolute truth of what is
• look at all there seems to be and see nothing is not a relative truth, a story
• dwell on the sense of ‘I am’ until you see this too is a relative truth, a story
• practice this and nan yar* … just be as you are, inseparable from what is

enlightened being is seeing any being as inseparable from what is

… there can be no general rule. But for all, the gateway to reality, by whatever road one arrives at it, is the sense of ‘I am’
—Maurice Frydman: Nisarga Yoga (!?)

no one need do more than need be done to be
and let be, to dwell in choiceless awareness*
on the sense of ‘I am’ – and to see this as it is

no one is as they are thought to be

‘I am’ is the first thought. It’s a story.“All we know is stories.”