Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

It is a matter of staying focused on "what is" until the mind ceases its habitual talkativeness and becomes silent.

"Talking and speculating on knowledge lernt from the wise ones" is the very sort of thing that keeps us from perceiving our oneness. As the third patriarch of Zen so eloquently put it, "Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing that you will not be able to know." It is our thinking that causes ideas of separateness to arise. Not-knowing is a direct path to the infinite, and anyone can learn to not-know. Trust yourself 100% and you can verify this for yourself.