So beautiful. We have so much wisdom within ourselves. Taking a moment to get silent, and listen to what we truly know within. Thank you for this beautiful, gentle reminder.
This story reminds me that wisdom isn’t something to chase—it’s something to remember. I’ve spent years looking outside myself for the “right” answers about who I am, hoping for certainty that never comes.
But when I get quiet, I realize I already know what matters. Everything changes. Holding on creates suffering. Love is always more important than being right. In yoga, the best alignment isn’t what someone else says—it’s what feels true in my body. Maybe life works the same way. Maybe the deepest truths aren’t something to find, but something to trust.
I am looking within, seeking answers to my most troubling questions. But the seeking is bringing more questions, and the answers are not becoming clear. I often despair, wondering if I’m going to feel broken forever.
I know how that feels. In my experience, the answers are usually the quietest voices, often more of a physical sensation that I must pay attention to in order to really notice. The monkey mind sure does enjoy filling all available space with noise.
Ah, Jack... you smooth, sandal-wearing soul-whisperer.
Only you could turn three conflicting reincarnation updates into a masterclass on not outsourcing your wisdom to spiritual customer service reps.
This was a tender gut-punch of a reminder that the deepest truths don’t come stamped with a lineage or wrapped in saffron robes — they come quietly, from within, usually while you're washing dishes or grieving or realizing (yet again) that control is a cosmic joke.
The part where you asked her what she knew? That was the real transmission. That’s the teaching behind the teaching behind the teaching. Because in the end, as Soen Sa Nim said (and Virgin Monk Boy often mumbles over cold tea), “You already know.”
Thank you for the reminder that awakening doesn’t always need a mantra, a mudra, or a monk’s blessing. Sometimes it just needs silence, stillness, and the courage to trust your own damn heart.
Thank you. I found this last night when I was feeling despair at the disrepair of my/ the world right now. It helped me tremendously. I will read it again and again. Thank you.
It is with mindfulness and loving kindness that we are present and enjoy the moment. People will not remember what you said but will remember how you treated them and made them feel. Great reminder.
So true. From ayahuasca journeys and MDMA therapy sessions I've realized that the insights I get come from within me — I just need help sometimes to access that inner wisdom.
Jack and others, I will not labor on about my own life experience. Simply let it be that at 77 years in this body I struggle daily with the heartbreak I feel observing the destructive forces at work undoing and denying everything I have worked on since birth. I wonder how kindness and compassion can now be considered lies and lies are now what control the survival or the extinction of life on this planet. It is an abandonment to go inward and say this too shall pass or to wax spiritual and wise that we shall just do nothing. If our understanding of life on earth teaches us anything it is that survival depends on either fighting or hiding underground out of sight. Those who fight engage in the present resistance, those who hide are cowardly.
So beautiful. We have so much wisdom within ourselves. Taking a moment to get silent, and listen to what we truly know within. Thank you for this beautiful, gentle reminder.
I love this. We do already know. We forgot.
In my experience, this knowing does not express in the form of words.
This story reminds me that wisdom isn’t something to chase—it’s something to remember. I’ve spent years looking outside myself for the “right” answers about who I am, hoping for certainty that never comes.
But when I get quiet, I realize I already know what matters. Everything changes. Holding on creates suffering. Love is always more important than being right. In yoga, the best alignment isn’t what someone else says—it’s what feels true in my body. Maybe life works the same way. Maybe the deepest truths aren’t something to find, but something to trust.
Really helpful tonight… much from early today bubbling back out of miasma … this instant info life is not lifeward… it is counterintuitive. . . .
I am looking within, seeking answers to my most troubling questions. But the seeking is bringing more questions, and the answers are not becoming clear. I often despair, wondering if I’m going to feel broken forever.
Hello love
“Be open to everything, and attached to nothing.”
Attachment creates suffering.
“Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional.” Buddha
This too will pass! 💕💕🌸🌸🌸🦋🦋
I know how that feels. In my experience, the answers are usually the quietest voices, often more of a physical sensation that I must pay attention to in order to really notice. The monkey mind sure does enjoy filling all available space with noise.
Oh yes it certainly does.
This is the hardest task.
Judging is so easy, but learning to master that monkey mind is the biggest but most worthwhile challenge.
I do not claim to be there yet by any means.
In a world of constant distraction it’s never been so challenging and more necessary! 🫶
Ah, Jack... you smooth, sandal-wearing soul-whisperer.
Only you could turn three conflicting reincarnation updates into a masterclass on not outsourcing your wisdom to spiritual customer service reps.
This was a tender gut-punch of a reminder that the deepest truths don’t come stamped with a lineage or wrapped in saffron robes — they come quietly, from within, usually while you're washing dishes or grieving or realizing (yet again) that control is a cosmic joke.
The part where you asked her what she knew? That was the real transmission. That’s the teaching behind the teaching behind the teaching. Because in the end, as Soen Sa Nim said (and Virgin Monk Boy often mumbles over cold tea), “You already know.”
Thank you for the reminder that awakening doesn’t always need a mantra, a mudra, or a monk’s blessing. Sometimes it just needs silence, stillness, and the courage to trust your own damn heart.
Spot on! Our intuitive self knows a lot more than it gets credit for.
The Universe is, we are. So it follows, we are in the Universe, the Universe is in us. To become the Universe again, what beauty.
The truth is within, indeed. And if you can’t find it, then check in with the Tao. 😀
Best line: lamas and mamas and swamis and gurus
This was a beautiful reminder to wake up to this morning. Instant medicine 🙏
we already know, this, for many of us is the journey of rememberance!
Thank you. I found this last night when I was feeling despair at the disrepair of my/ the world right now. It helped me tremendously. I will read it again and again. Thank you.
Wise and delightful, soothing reminders.
It is with mindfulness and loving kindness that we are present and enjoy the moment. People will not remember what you said but will remember how you treated them and made them feel. Great reminder.
So true. From ayahuasca journeys and MDMA therapy sessions I've realized that the insights I get come from within me — I just need help sometimes to access that inner wisdom.
Jack and others, I will not labor on about my own life experience. Simply let it be that at 77 years in this body I struggle daily with the heartbreak I feel observing the destructive forces at work undoing and denying everything I have worked on since birth. I wonder how kindness and compassion can now be considered lies and lies are now what control the survival or the extinction of life on this planet. It is an abandonment to go inward and say this too shall pass or to wax spiritual and wise that we shall just do nothing. If our understanding of life on earth teaches us anything it is that survival depends on either fighting or hiding underground out of sight. Those who fight engage in the present resistance, those who hide are cowardly.