75: what is reality? who am I? the hard ones.....

Who am I? What is reality?

These questions could be all the philosophy you ever need, and guess what?

You don’t have to know the answer.

You don’t even have to ask, you can go through life just roaring along, crashing here, doing great there, falling in love here, falling in hate there, feeling young and happy and strong here, and less so over here and then you die.

Good.

And this book, my goodness, if you have followed it so far, you are someone who is game to play the game of life to a richer dimension. And that dimension is called Waking Up.

And our breathing is always here.

And gravity, can we sense our five lines in the gravity of the situation, or our situation right now.

And with the breathing in awareness and the spine and legs and arms in awareness, we could today ask a bunch of times: Who am I?

What is reality?

Just to ask, and see if we can sense and experience our answer without any words.

That might be a delightful way to live today.

Let’s try it and see.

in a new place, it is tempting

La Peña cafe and meeting space

in a new place it is tempting
to cut back on
the efforts/ intentions/ joys
of consciously staying awake

this is partly because the
new place slightly
or largely wakes us up with its
new sights and sounds and patterns

and our disruption
of our routines
nudges us closer to awake

and yet
awake
is really awake

too fun
to skip

even in a new
place

which is???
Now it's Berkeley


Mrs. Dalloway's Bookstore

a sweet and amazing city, even if i've
only gotten to wander in a small edge of it

all on foot

good