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.

If attention is shifted away from the idea of egoic patterns

...the idea of resistance, or the idea of acceptance, to what can be seen or heard, then what? If there is simply the watching of "what is," in the absence of thoughts, where is "Souley?" Poof! Gone! Vanished into thin air! LOL. "Souley" and all ideas about "Souley" are movements of mind--vaporous figments of imagination conjured by the intellect.

"Souley" arises with self-referential thoughts and disappears in the absence of self-referential thoughts. THAT which is reading these words is not "Souley," and THAT is all there is. Forget acceptance, resistance, progress, egoic patterns, attainment, non-attainment, and all other mind-chattering nonsense. Focus attention upon what the eyes can see. If labeling occurs, look more intensely. If comments arise, look more intensely. If ideas about what "Souley" is doing arise, look more intensely. Concentrate upon what can be seen or heard (not upon what "you" can see or hear), and "Souley and his world" will disintegrate. Look until only THAT remains.