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.

Ordinary life

Even after a body/mind has experienced all kinds of amazing mind-states, sooner or later, there is a return to ordinary life in the here and now. There is no continuing peace that passes all understanding and no endless bliss. Experiences still happen, but they happen to no one. A body/mind may periodically experience samadhi, but sooner or later samadhi ends, and it’s once again time to do the dishes. If a body/mind sees through the illusion of selfhood completely, the grasping, seeking, observing, experiencing, efforting self is seen to be imaginary, and is ceases to be the center of thought. Life continues, but without the usual sense of there being a separate entity. The body/mind has a name and responds to it, but it is not imagined that the name corresponds to anything other than a pattern appearing in THIS.

There is no one who can make progress toward anything or attain anything because THIS is all there is; THIS is what we are; and there is nothing separate from THIS.