Grounded in Groundlessness

Simplicity on the surface has to do with consumer choices of clothing or food or shelter.

But in a deeper sense, true simplicity must begin within.

This simplicity begins with uprooting and ungrounding the ego; seeing and letting go of assumptions.

Simplicity requires the inner work of seeing with clear perceptions and understandings, pure integrity and authenticity;

And doing the inner work of sorting through the trash and treasures, the clutter of conditioning lodged deep within.

Stillness: learning to sit and feel and see…

“And sitting lets us begin to do that. It doesn’t do it right away, because what we first are confronted with is just the assault of the amount of thoughts and the mixed messages that just inhabit our body and our mind and our experience on an ongoing basis — that when we sit, the first thing we’re met
with is not quiet or calm or peace. The first thing we’re met with is, ‘Oh, my God. Who is in here, and why won’t they shut up? How do I get them to stop?’ And not only is something and someone and everyone speaking to me, it’s mixed messages. Things don’t agree with each other. I don’t agree with my own truth. I’m having arguments in here that are not my arguments, they are someone else’s arguments. They’re my parents’ arguments. Sitting lets us just, first of all, recognize that we are this massive collection of thoughts and experiences and sensations that are moving at the speed of light and that we never get a chance to just be still and pause and look at them, just for what they are, and then slowly to sort out our own voice from the rest of the thoughts, emotions, the interpretations, the habits, the momentums that are just trying to overwhelm us at any given moment.