Sublime

NOTHING IS REAL. From the Buddha’s begging-bowl universe, we come back to the belief that prevents a true perception of a ball of rice or anything else: the belief in the existence of a self, from which our beliefs in a being, a life, and a soul are derived as well as our belief in dharmas. The Buddha tells us that to understand the true nature of

Our filter inevitably reduces Source intelligence by interpreting the data that arrives instead of letting it pass freely. As the vessel fills with these recast fragments, relationships are created with the material already collected. These relationships produce beliefs and stories. They may be about who we are, the people around us, and the nature

All our efforts to make sense of ourselves and our art are a smoke screen, an obfuscation. They don’t illuminate what is. They mislead us. We have no way of knowing what is insignificant and what is essential, or what our contributions mean. We tell ourselves varying stories of who we are and how the work gets made. But none of them matter. All tha

all life is of spiritual essence, whether it be in form, or formless. When this spiritual essence takes form, we call it Nature. This form we call Nature has infinite separate realities, each reality being a fact to its observer. For example, the way you see life is your reality; therefore, we both see and live in separate realities.

None of our stories, even our most intelligent stories, are ever as real as what is.

All spiritual teachings originate from the same Source. In that sense, there is and always has been only one master, who manifests in many different forms. I am that master, and so are you, once you are able to access the Source within. And the way to it is through the inner body.