Reality is what one believes so stop believing to see reality is what one believes so stop believing to see the divine awakening in the present moment here and now.
(Or dream on believing in Santa Claus.)
“Bodhi Paloma” — home sweet home
PentaCor on A (438 HZ) — 7-string guitar, tenor ukulele, tanpura — 5:14
Free from enmity, affliction and anxiety
“There is what is given and what is offered and what is sacrificed; there is fruit and result of good and bad actions; there is this world and the other world; there is mother and father; there are beings who are reborn spontaneously; there are good and virtuous recluses and brahmins [priests] in the world who have themselves realized by direct knowledge and declare this world and the other world.”
— Majjhima Nikāya — the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi— Sāleyyaka Sutta, 41.14, p. 383
Undistorted vision of an empty harbor ready for winter
Small harbor docks emptied for winter — November 2025 — Lake Minnetonka, Excelsior, Minnesota
May you, I, and all be free from enmity, affliction and anxiety!
Tathāgata or Buddha plurality over uniformity understanding over rejection consciousness over ignorance detachment over personification forgiveness over accusation harmony over clashes sharing over owning unity over duality spirit over mind joy over suffering inclusion over exclusion appreciation over repulsion acceptance over separation humility over arrogance reality over illusion love over hate peace over war giving over taking solutions over conflict movement over paralysis cooperation over isolation befriending over alienation tending over destruction everything over nothing nothing is everything!
“Flashes of radiant cognizance” — in empty space
PentaCor on F (171 Hz; rel. A 432 Hz) — 8-string guitar — 10:42
Emptiness, concepts, names, and more
“To abide in emptiness takes a leap of faith. You have to leave behind the familiar comforts of sense objects and the old habits of thinking, liking, and disliking. You set off on a wide sea with just intention as your rudder, and you don’t know what will come next. You can try paddling hard and kicking, but that only sends you in circles. Relaxing with awareness helps but does not bring complete security. The maps are encouraging, but so much of the vastness seems uncharted — and yet you have committed to the journey. You need to maintain your effort but without striving hard for a result. In such a moment, you have to trust in the journey — and you have to trust in emptiness enough to surrender to it. This expresses a deep faith in the unfolding.”
“The more we live in the world of concepts, the more we forget that what the name points to is just a momentary flashing into sense experience. We take the static concept as real and forget the changing reality… We need to remember that the name is just something we’ve invented because it is useful… Doctrines are also concepts; they are not reality itself. When one is in touch with the underlying reality of things, one doesn’t have to label it… [It] is what it is.”
Born in consciousness and attention
“Before an object appears, the light is invisible, unborn, and unmanifest. Once an object appears, the light is born and manifest. The object is then ‘born’ in consciousness.”
“Understanding the truth of things is the most beneficial view, and that ultimately relies on experience, not concepts… No one technique is always the best practice. What is best is what’s suited to your body and mind in a given moment. As a general rule, when distracted, focus on a simple object to collect the attention.”
— Guy Armstrong, Emptiness: a practical guide for meditators, pp. 159, 201-202, 238, 252
It is what it is — flowing in countless dribbles, falls, rivers, and streams
Water moving on in oh so many ways — October 2025 — Wild Water Trail above Tschingel, Kiental, Switzerland
• 道 可 道 非 常 道 • “The Dao that can be spoken of is not the ever-constant Dao.”
— Lao Zi, Dao De Jing, beginning of verse #1, minimalist translation by Bruce R. Linnell
I remember you now in a moment present though gone far away you’re here in my heart maybe you reincarnated somewhere else already found our renewed family within this eternal current that begins and ends all still carrying forward when we are gone leaving the heart one for another always next steps to let go what was and embrace what is open to whatever comes learning how we all shape what we are contributing ever more consciously where we go and don’t challenging humanity what appears as self like late snow in spring I treasure you in my heart in this very present moment.
“Hearts dance and remember” — all in one in all
ReachMin or Phrygian dominant on C# (138 Hz; rel. A 438 Hz) — 8-string guitar — 12:41
Remember what Gotama told Vacchagotta and the bhikkhus (monks)
“To the extent that you may wish: ‘May I, with the divine ear.., which is purified and surpasses the human, hear both kinds of sounds, the divine and the human, those that are far as well as near’ — you will attain the ability to witness any aspect therein, there being a suitable basis.
“To the extent that you may wish: ‘May I, with the divine eye, which is purified and surpasses the human, see beings passing away and reappearing, inferior and superior, fair and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate… and may I understand how beings pass on according to their actions’ — you will attain the ability to witness any aspect therein, there being a suitable basis.
You will be “realizing for [your]self with direct knowledge, here and now” that: “Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.”
“Here [you] develop the mindfulness enlightenment factor, which is supported by seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, and ripens in relinquishment. [You] develop the investigation-of-states enlightenment factor. . . the energy enlightenment factor. . . the rapture enlightenment factor. . . the tranquility enlightenment factor. . . the concentration enlightenment factor. . . the equanimity enlightenment factor, which is supported by seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, and ripens in relinquishment.
“[These] seven enlightenment factors, developed and cultivated, fulfill true knowledge and deliverance.”
— Majjhima Nikāya — the middle length discourses of the Buddha, translated from Pali by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi — Mahāvacchagotta Sutta, 73.20, .23, and .26, pp. 600-601 and Ānāpānasati Sutta, 118.42 and .43, p. 948
Remember before you were small you were big?
Ulrico’s parents — around 1950 — Switzerland
May our hearts dance and remain sound and wholesome!
Reality theater or theater reality what’s the difference is there a difference one may be known the other less so as plain delusion or appearances but then we are a reality that is here and now thus come and gone always present preferably conscious with the divine heart all real awareness of the choice in total freedom in a passing show throughout worlds of mind and matter graced with insights what’s most essential in our loving heart.
121-string zither, American native flute, Celtic harp, and bird sounds by Kathia Haug Thalmann — büchel and miniature cornet by Hans Kurzen — tanpura, didgeridoo, cricket and bird sounds by Egon Kunkel — ocean drum by Hans Maurer —vichitra veena, bass, gongs, crotales, tingsha cymbals, bells, and bird sounds by Ulrico — summer 2014 — 13:09
Reality theater — illusion and conscious yearning
“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality; we are that reality. When we understand this, we see that we are nothing; and being nothing, we are everything.”
— 1st Kalu Rinpoche quoted by Joseph Goldstein — public talk in Bern, Switzerland, Aug. 2025
“To define the most important thing is the most important thing. It is the first step. Until you do, your life does not even belong to you.”
“We come to spiritual practice because the deeper reality is already arising, and the first way it arises into our consciousness is as the spiritual drive itself and as the yearning. Yearning may not be the fruition of enlightenment, it may not be the recognition of enlightenment, but it is the arising of it. If it was not beginning to arise into consciousness, we would not have any yearning at all, and we would not care.”
— Adyashanti, The most important thing — discovering truth at the heart of life, pp. 8 and 40
Reality in nature’s theater on the forest stage
Small fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) — October 2025 — Frienisberg forest, Switzerland — photo by Karin Gsöllpointner
May we all find and nurture the divine spark in our heart!
