The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

The mind that thinks it is in charge

  1. The thinker is the thought
  2. The doer who was never doing
  3. You did not choose your thoughts
  4. The exhaustion of being someone

The search is the problem

  1. The seeker is the obstacle
  2. Riding the ox while looking for the ox
  3. The path that ends where it began

Looking for the looker

  1. Who is asking
  2. The headless field
  3. Not this, not this
  4. Find the one who is reading this

The watching that has no watcher

  1. The watching that has no watcher
  2. Awareness aware of itself
  3. The light that does not need to be lit

Just this

  1. The present moment is not in time
  2. Suchness
  3. Nothing missing

The sitting that isn't for anything

  1. The sitting that isn't for anything
  2. Wu wei
  3. The dial you have been turning
  4. Effortless non-meditation

The self as a story

  1. The self as a sentence
  2. The personality is weather
  3. No one behind the eyes

Not two

  1. Not two
  2. The seer and the seen
  3. The wave that thought it was separate

Form is emptiness

  1. The shape and the space
  2. The rainbow
  3. Empty of being just one thing

This life, not the next one

  1. This life, not the next one
  2. Chop wood, carry water
  3. There is nowhere to go

Suffering is the bracing

  1. The bracing
  2. Pain is not the problem, the argument with it is
  3. What is left when you stop fighting

Ordinary mind

  1. The ordinary is what was being looked for
  2. Your life is not a workshop
  3. The breath that does itself
  4. Just this

Through the senses

  1. The room is already listening
  2. The seeing that does not need a seer
  3. The skin that is not waiting
  4. The air arrives unasked
  5. Before the word for it

The other side

  1. I have no message
  2. The natural state is not a state
  3. Thought is your enemy
  4. There is no individual there at all
  5. The search was the disease