Thanks so much, dear Joan. As I am sure you know, our conversations over the past seven years have helped me to pare things down to the essentials. I feel grateful for your friendship.
Thank you, Joan, for this thorough and succinct reflection. I share it completely. I am new to your and Robert's work and am deeply grateful for you both 🙏🏻
Hello Robert - I am new to and so grateful for your work. I read this post in email earlier today and made a note to come back to leave a comment. Then I saw Joan's comment and see that I am not alone in the way I received this post. I felt a deep settling in my body, a somatic sigh of *yes, thank you*. I echo Joan's sentiments entirely 💛
Just this. Certainly, as you say, many have expressed this, but then most get overexcited and feel a seemingly irresistible compulsion to add to it - leading inevitably to swift movement away from "just this" and deeper into the trance. I like your writing, and Joan's, precisely because you consistently pull the rug out from under me, enabling the freefall you describe for a moment. Sweet. Thank you.
It really is a no brainer, so simple but so many ‘teachers and gurus’ have made a living off of doing their best to see that people who are desperate for relief from their lives, for whatever reason, feel that they’re missing something. Thanks for keeping it real Robert.
Robert I. Really appreciated your post. Nisargadatta was one of the first people that I read and have gone back to him many times. I find his words and approach to non-duality very similar to yours minus the Hindu background that he was born to. I find his contradictions very helpful in stopping the mind trying to figure this out conceptually. He often said that consciousness is a chemical. Which sounds like something you would agree with theoretically. I say theoretically because as you often state no one knows what consciousness is or where it comes from.
This is so brilliantly, beautifully, simply, clearly expressed. I totally resonate with every word. Thank you, Robert. A great post. ❤️
Thanks so much, dear Joan. As I am sure you know, our conversations over the past seven years have helped me to pare things down to the essentials. I feel grateful for your friendship.
Thank you, Joan, for this thorough and succinct reflection. I share it completely. I am new to your and Robert's work and am deeply grateful for you both 🙏🏻
yes me too Joan xoxo
Hello Robert - I am new to and so grateful for your work. I read this post in email earlier today and made a note to come back to leave a comment. Then I saw Joan's comment and see that I am not alone in the way I received this post. I felt a deep settling in my body, a somatic sigh of *yes, thank you*. I echo Joan's sentiments entirely 💛
Hi, Patricia. I am happy to hear that. I wish you all the best.
Just this. Certainly, as you say, many have expressed this, but then most get overexcited and feel a seemingly irresistible compulsion to add to it - leading inevitably to swift movement away from "just this" and deeper into the trance. I like your writing, and Joan's, precisely because you consistently pull the rug out from under me, enabling the freefall you describe for a moment. Sweet. Thank you.
Yes RS,
The "here and now" is the only thing that I can put my finger on and say out loud, if only to myself "This is it".
It really is a no brainer, so simple but so many ‘teachers and gurus’ have made a living off of doing their best to see that people who are desperate for relief from their lives, for whatever reason, feel that they’re missing something. Thanks for keeping it real Robert.
Robert I. Really appreciated your post. Nisargadatta was one of the first people that I read and have gone back to him many times. I find his words and approach to non-duality very similar to yours minus the Hindu background that he was born to. I find his contradictions very helpful in stopping the mind trying to figure this out conceptually. He often said that consciousness is a chemical. Which sounds like something you would agree with theoretically. I say theoretically because as you often state no one knows what consciousness is or where it comes from.
Thank you, John. :D