John C. Sweet John C. Sweet

Seeds

Brief contemplations offered as threads of awareness.
Read slowly. Sit with what resonates. Let the rest fall away.
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Emotions are the taste of experience.
We are not the flavor —
we are the one tasting.

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To confuse the movement for the field
is to forget our depth.
Awareness remains unchanged.

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Grace is not negotiated but noticed in the pause between breaths. When naming falls away, awareness remains without becoming an object.

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The breath continues, and within it are countless invitations to rest in stillness—available in ordinary moments, without effort or holding.

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Sovereignty is not control.
It appears when resistance ends
and attention rests without division.

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Thoughts arise.
Sounds arise.
Both arrive in the same field
without crossing a boundary.

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Awareness cannot be grasped.
The attempt to know it conceals it.

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Awareness does not grow or diminish.
It gains nothing through thought.
It loses nothing through silence.

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Mind is awareness in motion.
In motion, awareness forgets itself.

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Objects appear.
Awareness seems to disappear.
Yet awareness remains, unnoticed.

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Meditation is not becoming aware.
It is the easing of overlooking.

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When effort softens,
awareness recognizes itself
without reflection, without distance.

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There is seeing
before a seer.
Knowing
before a knower.

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The body may fade.
The heart coheres.
Presence remains.

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Light does not remove darkness.
It reveals what was already there.

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Who is aware?
The question dissolves
in the asking.

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What remains
is not emptiness,
but clarity without edges.

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A thought has no substance of its own.
It is the movement of aware emptiness,
briefly sounding.

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Nothing goes anywhere
when a thought disappears.
What appears and fades
has never left what it is.

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I AM comes before the name.
What follows does not define what is.

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Nothing stands apart.
What appears as another
is the same reality seeing itself.

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Awareness lacks nothing.
The absence of lack
is happiness.

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Unhappiness is not a state of being.
It is the knowing
of what unhappiness feels like.

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