Don’t be a coward.

Stop making judgment and interpretations. Face your fear, your discomfort, your anxiety. Dive deep into experience, feel them into the bones.

And see past through.

A slice of Reality; not the Ultimate Truth.

True wisdom does not worship nonduality and consider all elses as unreal;
It is to realize that there are ten thousands of faces of Truth.

The Truth itself,
Unknowable as a whole.

What are we bragging for not having?
For everything is here, in the moment.

Face the gaping void,
you are all alone.

Bear with it;
Life keeps unfolding.

A wave that rises, breaks, and falls back, endlessly;

I am momentary flash, I am eternal existence;

The dance of form and emptiness, intertwined.

*From Santolo beach, south of West Java, Indonesia

It happened to me lately.
I thought of a particular song and suddenly my wife sang it aloud.
Or I sang a line from a song mentally, and suddenly my colleague sang that exact line aloud.

Well, some people would simply dismiss it as random coincidence,
just like how the same coincidence built-up the complexity of human awareness for five billions of years,
and really miss the beauty, the mystery,
the glamorous show behind the pale curtain.

While some others believe in synchronicity;
that, somehow, we are all aligned;
that, somehow, deep beneath this layer of flesh and bones, we are all connected,
like the intertwined web of endless, infinite threads.

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Peeling off the previous views, there at the core,
is a single, immutable Truth;
That we are all One,
looking at Itself through infinite point of views.

So it is simply natural that some point of views decided to observe only the outermost layer of reality,
the physical, material manifestations of Existence;
Some others recognized the inner reality beneath the shady skin,
the web of connections between all separate things;
While some others–very few of them,
identified the deepest, innermost core of Existence;
the Single Truth that projects the endless play of infinite things.

And so, it is natural that we experience synchronicity;
It is a glimpse of our own innermost reality;
a hint of the nature of all things.

Whether to dismiss it random coincidence,
or to believe in direct experience as it is,
that is a personal choice.

Breathe out,
pour love to the world;
I love.

Embrace either of them,
life is dull;
make friends, and dance along,
you are rich beyond measure.

The talk about oneness is pointless,
when one keeps dividing what is good and bad, what is right and wrong.

True wisdom does not preach;

It shines through

being.

But even achievement happens to the seemingly most unlikely people,
and slips away even from those who fought so hard for it;
no matter how much we revise,
there is no working formula.

For there is no such things as success in the first place;

Just is.

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