idlewild mind ䷓

great idea, now let's do it with stock market investments :-)

what cycle is coming to an end right now ?

the world tarot card

2026.

let go of what has passed
let go of what may come
let go of what is happening now

don’t try to figure anything out
don’t try to make anything happen

relax
right now
and
rest

- tilopa

nature is as fluid
and elusive as a thought
indeed it *is* a thought
an unfathomable compound thought
we live in and contribute to

the world is a shared dream
in it, as in a regular dream
the dreamer is himself
the subject and the object
the observer and the observed

- bernardo kastrup

that the saint is now continually
tripping over joy
and bursting our in laughter
and saying “i surrender!”

whereas my dear
i am afraid you still think
you have a thousand serious moves

- hafez

what is the difference
between your experience of existence
and that of a saint?

the saint knows
that the spiritual path
is a sublime chess game with god

and that the beloved
has just made such a fantastic move

whoever continously for a thousand years
asks life “why are you living?”
if it would answer, it would only say
“i live because i live”

that is because life lives out of its own ground
and streams forth from its own
therefore it lives without a why in that it is living itself

- meister eckhart

in the pursuit or learning
everyday something is acquired
in the pursuit of the tao
everyday something is dropped

less and less is done
until non-action is achieved
when nothing is done
nothing is left undone

- lao tzu

when you love you should not say
“god is in my heart” but rather
“i am in the heart of god”

and think not you can direct the course of love
for love if it finds you worthy
directs your course

- khalil gibran

love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself
love possesses not nor would it be possessed
for love is sufficient unto love

yet till then its desires are limitless
its claims inexhaustible
and every satisfied desire gives rise to a new one

no possible satisfaction in the world
would suffice to still its longings
set a goal to its infinite cravings

and fill the bottomless abyss of its heart

- arthur schopenhauer

awakened to life
out of the night of unconsciousness

the will finds itself an individual
in an endless and boundless world

among innumerable individuals
all striving, suffering, erring;

and as if through a troubled dream
it hurries back to its old unconsciousness

the bird fights its way
out of the egg

the egg is the world

whoever will be born
must destroy a world

the bird flies to god
that god’s name is abraxas

- herman hesse

if you’re freightened of dying
and you’re holding on
you’ll see devils tearing your life away

if you’ve made your peace
then the devils are really angels
freeing you from the earth

- meister eckhart

the only thing that burns in hell
is the part of you that won’t let go of your life

your memories, your attachments
they burn them all away
but they’re not punishing you
they’re freeing your soul

an illusion is not nothing

no breakthrough without breaking

i sought her from myself
she was there all along
how strange that i
had concealed her from me

calling myself from me
to guide me by my voice
to that part of me
lost in my search

me begging me
to raise the screen
by lifting up the veil
for i was my only means to me

- ibn al-farid

just a friendly feed reminder that “ethical capitalism” is an oxymoron

“Capitalism has always been a system of class war, one in which the rich and powerful fight an unending battle to control society and its institutions.” . - Noam Chomsky

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to say.

You are prior to the idea 'I am'. Camp yourself there, prior to the words 'I am'.
—Nisargadatta

they branded scarcity as sacred
and told you you'd be complete
if you found it
and destroyed
if you lost it

the one was always you

If things existed inherently or by way of their own character, they would be independent and could not be affected by causes and conditions. Emptiness, or the lack of inherent existence, makes possible production, abiding, and disintegration.

― Jeffrey Hopkins (in Meditation on Emptiness)

“eckhart does not linger in his sermons on the topic of hell as a concrete place

but for him hell is rather an existential place or state of not realizing

who we are and what we are called to be”

dismantle the empire within

the only thing i vow to ever be loyal to is my own integrity

why live in contradictions
when you can live in paradox ?

“We have to be prepared and willing to discover what is true even at the cost of our comfort. For real security always lies on the side of truth, not on the side of comfort.”
― Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering

shadows fall in the depth so gently
we reflect eternity
we recall our dreams

honesty is like gold to your soul