The Zombie

There are two states any human being can be in: awakened human or zombie.
We are born in the first state. By the time we are two years old, the second state begins to creep over us. Before we know it, we are trapped in the state of the zombie.
A zombie is a dead person who walks and talks and moves.
As long as we are trapped by the ego-mind complex, this is how we all are...dead people, somehow stumbling through life, seeming to walk and talk and act, but not truly experiencing real life....except for some brief, rare moments when ..through shock or intensity..we briefly escape our zombie shell.
We all know at least a few such moments : Aha! moments filled with awe and wonder and totality and raw, magical Being.
I've been a zombie for close to 50 years ...apart from a few magical moments of freedom. So I understand very well how dangerous and all-pervading this state can be.
Do you find life depressing, difficult, boring, painful? Do you wish you were dead sometimes? Do you make your way by habit through day after boring day? Do you ensure your mind is constantly numbed by words or talk or sound or Television or crowds? Are you mostly dwelling on the past or worrying/fantasising about the future? Do you go through your whole day without ever stopping to truly see or feel or experience anything?
These are some of the symptoms of being a zombie.
The greatest tragedy is the loss of your most precious treasure: your humanity and the priceless moments of your human life.
There is only one way to break the iron shell of the zombie state: to free yourself from the tyranny of your ego-mind complex.
Which is a bit like cutting off your head.
All it takes is tearing up your story, ending your movie, shifting your attention from head to heart or solar-plexus.
Being here and now...experiencing the world directly, not through the filter of the mind.
Once you can do this all the time, you have escaped from the zombie state.
You are awake at last...aware, alive, free!
Once you can be this, all you experience is magic!

Eternal Sunrise

The sun never rises or sets...just an illusion caused by the rotation of the earth.
The Sun of Clear Mind shines eternally...it was inside me before I was born and will be after I die.
Only the clouds of false knowledge and conceptual thought obscure it...like thick dark monsoon clouds, but with even less substance.
When I turn my perception to the inner background, all the clouds disappear, revealing the shining perfection that always is.
This is my true home, my place of Being, my Buddha-nature.
This is real...all else is cloudy illusion.
Once I know this , there is nothing left to know, nowhere to go.
Just perfect, loving radiance that flowers so joyously....how did I ever let myself forget this?
That is the true mystery.

Snake-skin

The snake sheds its skin naturally...when the time is ripe.
My ego-skin drops naturally...when my time is ripe.
When my eyes are awakened to the emptiness of all form.
When I experience...totally...the underlying One reality of everything.
When I find that all that I ever sought is right here in me.
When all hunger, need, desire melts and disappears like dew before rising sun.
When the peace and love and joy in the Heart expands and swallows the universe.
When the drop finally lets go of all fear and clinging and falls willingly back into the ocean.
No more "I".
Then...just rise and fall with the waves.
What else is there to do?

Heart-talk

Listen, my friend, this is not difficult to understand.
All of us are born, live, feel joy or pain, grow old and die.
From nothing, we emerge, play our brief roles and return to nothing.This is the fact of our lives.
Life without meaning is not life..it is just an endless, fearful struggle.
To find true meaning, you must turn within ...seek the answer to
" Who am I? " and " What's it all about?"
Seeking with all your being, you find your true Self..and all the questions dissolve forever.
Time is a mental construct : the only reality is the Now.
The greatest gifts lie in the heart and the belly, not the head.
Surrender is the source of peace. Stillness is divine.
Once the inner eye is opened, your blindness drops from your eyes...and all that you see is sacred.
Then you truly live!.
Awake, alert, aware, joyous, one with all there is.
And you finally understand : there is only Love.

Mirror Mind

The mind that is still is your original mirror-mind.
Free of all clinging, all conceptual thought...this is the ground of Being, the gateway to the unknowable.
Whatever comes before it, the mirror reflects without judgement..when nothing is before it, it reflects nothing.
No image persists.
Dropping conceptual thought stills the mind.
The still mind returns to its original mirror-like perfection.
Until there is no reflector or reflection or object of reflection..even the mirror dissolves in the perfect Void.
Mirror-mind is Blue Sky Mind...the vastness of space that is ever=present, ever empty. Clouds, like thoughts and emotions, come and go..Blue Sky remains unchanged.
Be still.
Clean your mirror. Be the Blue Sky.
Inherit the Void and be free.