Gord Clements

I am really beginning to see that the vulnerability that I have endlessly avoided and covered over and feared the experience of  I am. Over past years I was closer to my authentic self than I realised being in this place  that was so much closer and that I wanted so much to be away [...]

How should I be.        But be not lured by higher striving.       For at the state of man`s arriving           Finished and damned is your career Goethe   I am full of weakness and vulnerability. It is the very human essence of what I am  that I [...]

Everything about the meditation that I do points me to a place that I see emptiness. A place that I find myself absent of identity and feeling naked without form. Here there is no  place to take refuge, no sense of importance or mission in becoming something or in finding acceptance in pursuing either. The [...]

Who Overcomes Himself His Freedom Finds Goethe All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world’s flux and swept along like sand: In this eternal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to [...]

I came across a discussion about homosexuality today and I was most struck with the human tendency to want to be passionately focused on qualifying and asserting points that were made. It seems at times  to become a battle of wit and something other than a a genuine sharing, exploring and exchanging of ideas. These [...]

The Essence of Mind in a Single Moment Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide [...]

I am only now realising how much energy is involved in working at trying to make oneself into something that one is not. It is not an easy  realisation to make. The idea of accepting and flowing from what we authentically are is not one that most cultures value. A common theme is that an [...]

Being the Question If we attempt to explain the experience of ‘being the question,’ we can only talk around it. Because ‘being’ is an experience, and the moment we try to describe it we shut down around an idea. But perhaps we could attempt to describe it by saying that being the question has something to [...]

    Let winds come, let the sun come  — everything is welcome Once you become atuned to living with an open heart, you will never close. But a little time has to be given to it. And you have to maintain the opening, otherwise it will close again.   OSHO

I am currently learning to be an English teacher in Germany but I wonder about my ability to make some of the required changes at this point in my life. Here in Germany I have to do something to be able stay with my wife. I dont want to be dependent on her and I [...]