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Nothing To Believe

What a relief! Nothing to believe! I have to admit that I struggle to describe this but when life lives freely as this, when the structure of separation is revealed to be but a dream then it is clear that there is nothing to believe any more. In the story of me on a...

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The Dark in The Light

Life shows up in infinite forms, the dance of being is eternal. The horror of life is just as much oneness as the beauty and the joy. Horror is not pleasant of course, it's not enjoyable the same way a sunset is enjoyable. Watching thousands of children starve or to...

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An Ordinary Life

The belief that awakening causes your life to become radically different, to transform into your idea of a successful life is a persistent belief in the world of spiritual seeking. We so want to become better people, to secure our future, to say we've arrived that we...

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Everything Is Special

When awakening happens it is seen that this is enough, whatever this happens to be. The ordinary is no longer ordinary but has an infinite depth. There is infinite depth in everything, in the simplest of things. A cupboard door, a pair of shoes, a bright harvest moon;...

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The Miracle of This

What if none of it mattered? I'm too lazy, I get angry too easily, I should be more forgiving, I ought to exercise more or work harder. So what? In the game of becoming a 'better' person there is always something else to work on. There will always be something about...

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Look For Yourself

When I used to think about awakening or enlightenment, I always thought about it as something that would or could happen in the future. Awakening was always the big plan that I had to put into action. I imagined that maybe this would happen after studying enough...

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Personal Awakening

My spiritual seeking was always self centred until it was seen that the self at the centre was not there. I always wanted awakening to do something for me. Ultimately, I looked upon awakening as another way to avoid pain and find pleasure. Pleasure comes and goes as...

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The Dark Cafe

The Dark Cafe A short story By Mike Jenkins Maria is struggling under the weight of depression and the pain of loss. Wandering the streets in the pouring rain and contemplating the ultimate loss, she begins to see in a totally new way. The Dark cafe is a story of...

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Human Doing

Sometimes I might find myself longing for a better life. Better conditions in which to survive, better conditions in which to thrive. And then I start to look at what I can do to bring about those conditions. And then I complain that I'm having to do so much. And then...

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Both Nothing and Something

Resting in the spaciousness of nothing can be a welcome break from the pain and suffering that arises from the sleep of separation where there is only something. Only something may point to you, me, us, them, it. This is commonly termed separation in modern nondual...

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Ego and Separation

Some spiritual teachers refer to the ego. The word ego means different things to different people. It is generally used in spiritual teachings to refer to the 'I' thought. For me, ego simply means the separate sense of self. It's the sense of being me, separate from...

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The Dance of Life

Shall we dance? In the dance of life there is much to enjoy. The music, the spectacle, the atmosphere, the feeling of lightness, the power of stomping, the thrill of passion... the joy, the laughter, the tears. We are dancers and we are the dance. You are dancing with...

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The Thrill of The Ordinary

You don't have to do anything special to get this. In fact, you can't get this, you can't have it because it's not separate from the being that you are. Just being as you are is the great prize that is looked for in all worldly searching and in all spiritual seeking....

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What If

What if the very happening of this moment were what you were really, really looking for? Not the content of any future moment or any object that you can own and identify yourself with but the actuality of this, here and now. What if you are already complete? What if...

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Is My Awakening Complete?

One of the questions that often comes up for the spiritual seeker is the question of progress. How am I doing on my awakening journey? Is my awakening complete? What stage am I at? These are all questions that fascinate the seeker and of course ensure the game of...

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October Newsletter and Podcast

Here is this month's newsletter and podcast where really all that is happening is play. A play with words, ideas and concepts... pointing towards that which is beyond words, ideas and concepts. A return to the childlike delight in simply being. Being with no purpose,...

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The Chaos of Life

There seems to be a great deal of chaos in political, economic and social systems at the moment. For the separate individual this inevitably generates a fear for survival... or it might generate a thirst for change or a sense of excited anticipation. The shocking...

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Collapse

What remains when the structure collapses? Nothing remains. The nothing that is the space for the structure to stand out. That no-thing is neither the structure alone nor the absence of the structure alone and yet it is both also. When the house, when the system, when...

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Nothing to Fear

There is nothing to fear. Nothing can harm you. You are life, life itself. How can life harm life? How can nothing harm nothing? This message is radical. It's the message hidden in all the great texts, all the great traditions, all the great religions. Steve Jobs died...

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Fall

This is about falling, falling in love with this. And falling is so much about letting go... Letting go of the pain of loss, dropping the pain of gain. It's full of ease. Easy as falling off a log. Easy as 1, 2, 3. And yet this is not about words, or numbers, or...

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Two Become One

I couldn't write and speak about nonduality a moment longer and have TWO websites with practically the same content on! I originally intended for the blog to stand apart from Nothing Saying This but that's just more separation right? And besides, it was getting...

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September Podcast

I joined Nic Higham of Nonduality Network again this month to record a new podcast. Nic produces, records and edits podcasts with a variety of authors, speakers and teachers, sharing the message of oneness at www.nondualitynetwork.com September 2011 Podcast with Mike...

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You’re Going Nowhere

One of the most amazing revelations in simply being this, in seeing clearly the illusions of time, distance and separation is the radical suggestion that you are going nowhere. It is the realisation that there is nowhere other than here. It is the seeing that if there...

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Bad News…

There's some bad news... and some good news... The bad news is you don't exist. The good news is you don't exist. Not in the way you thought you did. The bad news is you don't have a life. The good news is, you are life itself. Your body exists, that much is clear....

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