Something to cheer you up. You don’t mind boring all your friends with your story and you keep them up to date. Isn’t that what friends do? But you have to listen to their story too! Stories and more stories. If you can find someone willing to listen to your sad ‘story of me’, for [...]
Many ‘radical thinkers’ have been banished from ‘society’ and ridiculed down through history – yet their discoveries were totally accepted long after they were dead and gone. Why were they not accepted? – Why were they banished or even executed? Simply because the habits of belief are rigid and dead and fear springs forth when [...]
Like a gold miner standing in the entrance of the mine, looking for the entrance, thinking it is somewhere else. Most seekers, no, all seekers are like a man sitting on a box full of precious jewels, begging passers by for a few coins. Sometimes a passer by (one who knows) points out that the [...]
A good friend sent me this quote below. Many so-called ‘teachers’ talk as if they know the Self, and see it to be obscured and clouded by ignorance and illusion, however that very notion is incorrect as the Self is “as it is”, real and unchanging – indicating that even though they talk as if [...]
Just to show that the message is not new, here is a quote from an ancient text. It is still as fresh as the day it was written hundreds of years ago. “Should your mind wander away, do not follow it, whereupon your wandering mind will stop wandering of its own accord. Should [...]
The first published text by myself, Gilbert, was The First Instant – a collection of notes – The manuscript started as ‘notes to myself’ because of the profound nature of the regular insights. Now the book is available as an e-book in Spanish thanks to Fernando Rozas, a friend of Gilbert. The English version [...]
Many believe that they are trapped but they do not understand the nature of the trap. Many seek what they already are. If they (you) do not recognise that they (you) are already what they (you) seek, despite being told a hundred times – what can be done – except to point in various [...]
The past is dead and gone. Yesterdays insight is useless. Ten minutes ago or ten years ago is the same. Are you impatient for some ‘event’ to happen? If so, then it is that very concept that keeps you trapped. Right effort appears spontaneously and any contrived effort is doomed to fail. The [...]
By simply witnessing the disappearance of a thought, one must be present as thoughtless reality. The habit of believing that thought is real, one may miss the subtle living presence that is thought free. Some call it the natural state (nature). With a simple intention to watch the mind, the intention may well stop [...]
Window on the World – Photo by Gilbert The world and the mind are one and the same. The world is the mind and the mind is the world. The mind is concepts. The world is concepts. What you are seeing is not the world. The world is perception based on memory. The nature of ‘what [...]
