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What it’s all about.

Meditation does not involve discontinuing one’s relationship with oneself and looking for a better person or searching for possibilities of reforming oneself and becoming a better person. The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one’s confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view. That is the basic purpose of meditation practice as far as this approach is concerned.

Chögyam Trungpa from Laura Dunn’s post Satsang: Learning to See. (via crashinglybeautiful)

Quite possibly the best writing setup ever.

…our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than our opinions in physics or geometry…

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly: That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess—and by argument to maintain—their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

Thomas Jefferson on religious freedom, 1779. Fast-forward a few dozen decades, and research confirms what Jefferson intuited — narcissism mixed with religious righteousness breeds bad things. (via explore-blog)

The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile. Love is a sacred art. To be in love is to be in a holy relationship.

Osho (via fuckyeahexistentialism)