Monthly Archives: October 2025

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Fishing in Life with a Sinker

Are you familiar with angling and angler terminology? There are a rod, reel and line. A weight holds a hook underwater. Let’s consider angling as a metaphor to illustrate unconscious behavior. A person that is fishing often uses various size sinkers. This causes the hook with bait to sink to a given water depth. This weight pulls the baited hook toward the bottom of a stream, pond or lake. The length of line released from the reel usually determines the depth the hook will sink. Equally, the size of the sinker plays a role in how quickly the weight and hook sink. Thus, the act of line casting and hook sinking is easy to visualize.

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Therefore, please visualize the image of yourself in the act of fishing. The depth of the water and what is beneath the water is difficult to know with accuracy or assurance. Nevertheless, your desire is to catch fish. This wish encourages you to try various methods to get the fish you want. However, you don’t know what is under the water. This last sentence is also a metaphor for us to consider in relation to how we live. Most people live life basically with the same approach as trying to fish in water that doesn’t reveal its depth or content. Nevertheless, there is something in the depth of the water that everyone wants. But few people know how to harmonize the act of being in accordance with what is within the water’s depth. Continue reading

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Nothingness Is Everything

The presence of this moment is nothingness that transforms into somethingness. But how is nothing actually something? I cannot answer such an inquiry. Nor, do I wish to try. Instead, I personally observe emptiness and silence as the potential to become anything. This is the flow of energy without actual labels, limits or restrictions. Therefore, my practice is conscious presence within the vibrational transition of nothing to something. Practice this daily and that, what manifests might surprise you. 

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The isness of being, specifically, your being, manifests through the process of nothing transcending into something. Furthermore, conscious beingness has the potential to expand during this process. The one that looks beyond the mind acknowledges that aware presence offers the fulfillment of conscious enlightenment. Therefore, existence details, regardless of mind interpretations and labels, become secondary to your aware presence. Need I remind you that conscious presence flows best when there are no attachments to the details of your being.  Thus, there within beingness, among what seems to be drama, confusion, tragedy and suffering remains a stillness of presence. And, I do not wish for you to believe or ponder on what I have written. Instead, I suggest that you unlearn what you think and simply practice unbiased observation of your presence in life. Continue reading

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Bottle of Water and the Flow of Life

Let’s do an experiment in the attempt to initiate conscious awareness of your presence. You need a glass and a bottle of water to conduct this exercise. The task itself is easy. Pour the liquid from the bottle into the glass. Thus, you might discover the presence of your being within the water as it flows. However, whether you recognize conscious presence or not depends on how you observe the water flowing from the bottle. What is the focus of your being as you interact with the liquid?

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Many individuals that read what I have just written will perhaps label me as crazy, or at the least, eccentric. Why do I ask you to consider your relationship with the water as it flows into the glass? Most likely, you are thirsty and don’t care about focusing on the act of pouring water. Nevertheless, everything evolves from your perception so let’s continue. Continue reading