Thank you Alan, for the guided meditation, and everyone for showing up and sharing their experiences. It is lovely to be present with folks from different walks of life, attending a meeting where apparently no agenda is pursued, no curriculum is taught, no docent is hired, and best of all, no exit exams are to…

………or “word-of-the-day”………. Last night’s Michael Jeffreys Nonduality Community meeting on zoom extended an invitation to take a closer look at what is really happening, what is really present. It touched upon a variety of areas of interest around the general question of the “me” and its characteristics: wanting to feel better wanting to matter, be…

Today’s the-hum included the exploration of meditation and the presence of thoughts. Attendees shared their experiences, intentions, objectives, and expectations when meditating. As a “spiritual tool”, meditation is known to be practiced by many seekers, spiritual practitioners and teachers. “You can’t stop your mind from thinking because you don’t start it thinking.” ~ Adyashanti Meditation…

Already there is that place which is, already, trouble-less… It has no trouble at all… When it is noticed that there wasn’t any thought in the first place… it was just This space appearing as those thoughts… -Nkosi It is obvious and effortless, without purpose and meaningless – it is “as it is” – and…

Joan Tollifson, Aug. 20, 2023 Right Now, Just As It Is It’s been hot and dry here in southern Oregon where I live, with dry lightning strikes and raging wildfires above and below the town where I live and often toxic air quality as a result. Last night the air quality improved for a while,…

Adyashanti, January 24, 2007 In this definitive talk on the illusion of self, we learn how it is possible to have a strong realization that there is no self and yet still fall prey to the momentum of an imaginary me. This talk is not meant to offer techniques for deconstructing the “me,” but rather…