Blog Post 8-26-26

The illusory sense of awareness gives rise to the feeling that this appearance is being seen or experienced by someone. Simultaneously, this generates a sense of duality, as though there were a split into what appears and a witness to perceive it. Yet no such separation ever happens—there is no observer standing apart, no vantage point from which this is viewed. Nothing needs to be seen, and no one is seeing it. There is only this empty appearance—arising for no one, belonging to no one, and appearing to no one at all.

Blog Post 8-19-26

The search for a true nature assumes there is something real at the core of what appears. Many seekers believe there is an essence waiting to be discovered, a final truth about who or what they are. But there is nothing underneath, no fundamental reality hiding beneath the illusion of self—only this empty appearance. The search goes on endlessly because it is looking for something that simply is not there. When the self falls away, there is no one left to seek, no nature to uncover. What is left is not a final realization, only the absence of the one that believed there was something to find.

 

Blog Post 8-12-26 (Free E-book)

Empty Reflections is a free e-book that contains a collection of 80 reflections I have posted. It is available in EPUB format for Apple Books, Kindle, and other e-readers, with an optional PDF version for PCs and Macs. I am also exploring a possible print edition.

This is a companion volume to my forthcoming book, This Empty Appearance, which is still in progress. That book will provide a more comprehensive and detailed exploration of this empty appearance.

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Blog Post 8-8-26

INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY

The illusory self may think that humans are both separate from and superior to everything else. But human specialness is just another illusion, a belief within the dream of being. Without the self, there is no hierarchy, no distinction—just this, appearing as all forms. What appears does not belong to a special species, nor does it unfold toward some great purpose. The belief in human importance assumes there is meaning in being human, but there is not. There is nothing exceptional—only this, appearing as everything, already empty and equal.

 

Blog Post 8-5-26

As long as the "me" believes it has a part to play in its own ending, the illusion simply continues. Every effort to get rid of the “me” is just another act of the “me”—the illusion trying to erase itself, yet always ending up as the one still striving. No matter how sincerely this project is pursued, the seeker remains at the center of every attempt. The one hoping to disappear only reinforces its own presence. The vanishing of the "me" is never an achievement, because it is impossible for an illusion to step outside itself to bring about its own end.