OWNERLESS THOUGHTS
You’ve never known another.
All you’ve ever known are your thoughts.
You’ve never known yourself.
All you’ve ever known are your thoughts.
Thoughtless thoughts.
Empty thoughts.
Ownerless thoughts.
Thoughts come and go freely, exactly
as they are, until I say otherwise.
-Michael Jeffreys
Michael Jeffreys “You don’t need to know. And that’s the freedom.” 2-24-21, Nonduality Meeting
ALL KNOWLEDGE IS DREAMED KNOWLEDGE
“Do you need to know what a flower is in order to smell its sweet fragrance?”
“Wouldn’t any form of seeking be knowing? I know that I’m a seeker.”
“Story is never about what’s actually… just THIS without a story.”
-Michael
THE DREAM OF NEEDING TO FIX THE MOMENT
“I assume that I know that I’m a separate person. And I’m having an experience that is not sufficient, that’s not good enough. And there’s something I can do to make it okay. And I’m saying, ‘I know that,’ and then I’m proceeding from there. That’s where the suffering is coming from.”
“Everything is only okay just as it is.”
-Dan
Michael Jeffreys “Everything is as it is… until ‘I’ say otherwise.” 2-17-21, Nonduality Meeting
CHARLES: And isn’t it odd that that first knowledge, self-awareness, is where it all starts to go wrong.
MICHAEL: But it’s ownerless… that’s the rub, that’s the trick. The one who thinks they own the knowledge doesn’t exist.
The Extraordinary IS the Ordinary.
That THIS miracle, whatever’s happening, can appear so ordinary… is a miracle.
-Michael Jeffreys
Michael Jeffreys “Whatever’s happening, is IT. There’s nothing else happening.” 2-10-21, Nonduality
The hardest thing for the me to wrap its mind around
is that this moment, this right here, whatever’s happening right now… this is IT. There’s nothing else happening.
And the problem for the me is that it’s always living somewhere else. Either in the past, which is imagination, memories… or in an imagined future.
-Michael
p.s. I like the direct way Tim says it:
There isn’t anything more. Where would it be??
-Tim Cliss
Michael Jeffreys “The less you, the more peace.” 2-3-21, Nonduality meeting
I’ve changed the name of my facebook community group and I thought I should address why. Things can resonate for a while… until they don’t. And for a long time “satsang,” which is described as “meeting in truth,” resonated. But it no longer does. Because even the idea of meeting in truth… it gives the impression that they’re two things: There’s the truth, and then something meeting it. And that’s no longer how I see it.
So just as the words consciousness and awareness used to resonate here and no longer do… they just sound like concepts… I can’t find awareness, I can’t find consciousness. All words sound like concepts to me at this point. Stories… beautiful stories, but empty. And when they’re believed, well, “tales told by an idiot”… “sound and fury…”
-Michael
Me’s greatest fear is its end.
How can what never began end?
-Michael Jeffreys
p.s. Without a past or a future, there’s no time for me. 🙂
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