Spirit – Non-Duality – Awakening – Nature – Community – Life

Talent, Ashland, Southern Oregon, Southwest New Mexico & Beyond

Love is the dissolution of the ‘I’ that loves and the ‘other’ that is loved. It is the collapse of relatedness and the dawn of intimacy.

~ Rupert Spira ~

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The Buddha sits on Yon San Mountain, picking flowers, transmitting Dharma.
Cool wind, flower, and moon. Each thing is complete.

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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

~ David Whyte ~

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She walks in beauty, like the night.
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright,
Meet in her aspect and her eyes….

~ Lord Byron ~

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

~ Mary Oliver ~

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by, 
And that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost ~

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There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled.
 Like, telling someone you love them. 
Or giving your money away, all of it.

~ Mary Oliver ~

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Heart, we will forget her!
 You and I, to-night!
 You may forget the warmth she gave,
 I will forget the light.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

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The truth is,
 some pain just isn’t worth it.
 Sometimes, the hurt gets old.
 Sometimes, you get tired of 
being the one who has to heal.

~ Caitlyn Siehl ~

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AshlandSpirit: Spirit, Non-Duality, Awakening, Nature, Community and Life, from Talent and Ashland in Southern Oregon

This website is a reaching for greater shared understandings of relationship, interdependency and community, in the company of others.

 Here are writings by John Fridinger, and by others who have kept him company: poets, mystics, teachers and friends, loosely grouped into nine rooms.

New writings will appear first on Substack, at John Fridinger | Substack, and then come here, for more possibilities of gathering and exchange.

OverviewAbout

Ways In

(a few openings, from all the rooms)

A Way Through…Community

A Way Through…

And so, more and more, I am wearing my mourning out in the open, as I grieve the passing of all of that “wild” we humans once also were, and cannot survive apart from.
Talent, OR, Late Winter 2024read more ›Starting with CommunityCommunity

Starting with Community

This is our place, each of us and all of us, together, where we find common needs, engaged appreciation, and real problems that we can solve together. The center needs to hold in a rooted way.
Gila, NM, Summer/Fall 2003read more ›The Ground Beneath the Emergency ~ Part ThreeWorld

The Ground Beneath the Emergency ~ Part Three

The local is not a retreat from the global. It is the only ground the global was ever built on, and the only ground anything that comes after will be built on.
Talent, OR, Summer 2026read more ›Sooner Or Later We Fall SilentEmptiness

Sooner Or Later We Fall Silent

This silence may then sometimes choose to speak through us, all in its own time and ways, always to itself, and yet always and also to each ever-seeming unique other that we altogether also are.
Talent, OR, Summer 2019read more ›Wildness, Wilderness & David WhyteLife

Wildness, Wilderness & David Whyte

Words cannot transport us, but words that arise from the lived, felt and embodied can become for us like openings, fingers pointing, invitations to rejoin the lived, felt and embodied.
Talent, OR, Fall 2018read more ›In the Light of Mountain Desert NightsPoetry

In the Light of Mountain Desert Nights

The deer arrives,
Meeting, Presence,
Movement,

The deer departs.
I go with her,
One.
On the Road, Fall 2009read more ›

Newest Writing

(from all the rooms)
birds and sky on grass

Non-Duality and Awakening, by Other Means… One

by | Feb 15, 2024 | · also in

Read time: 22 minutesA collection of my responses to various folks regarding non-dual/spiritual teachings.

God “gives” nothing, all is given always and already. In each moment everything is, and simply so. The foolishness that asserts “God” rewards for good behavior (and by inference punishes for bad) goes totally against the Prodigal Son, for just one example, not to mention every other teaching of Jesus, without exception. The same foolishness is also contrary to the teachings of most of the world’s established traditions. No mystic, […]

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talk with birds

An Explanation of the Oneness of Being, in the Feminine

by | Nov 5, 2023 | · also in

Read time: 17 minutesGoddess is the apparent without appearance and the hidden without hiddenness. She is the very existence of the letters of the names, the first and the last, the apparent and the hidden. There is no first or last, apparent or hidden except Her, without the letters which form these divine names becoming Her and without Her becoming these letters….

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Newest Writing

(from all the rooms)
child torch

The “system” is not broken…

by | Dec 22, 2024 |

Read time: < 1 minuteThe “system” is not broken, it is doing what it has been designed and built to do, in ever more sophisticated ways, for hundreds if not thousands of years… That is, possess, enslave and pillage the many in service to the delusional benefits of a few who believe they can both be and stay separate from what happens to the many…

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The Rooms

CommunityCommunityBelonging, and finding our way togetherWorldWorldWar, power, the media, AI, and the ground beneath the emergencyEmptinessEmptinessNon-duality, silence, and the end of beliefLifeLifeWildness, lineage, and the heart’s response to this worldCorrespondenceCorrespondenceOpen letters and messages, among them to Bernardo Kastrup, Charles Eisenstein and Heather Cox RichardsonDialoguesDialoguesConversations, among them Non-Duality and Awakening, by Other MeansCommonsCommonsWhat is held in common: silence, the body, the Oneness of BeingPoetryPoetryPoems of John Fridinger, and of company keptShort QuotesShort QuotesMore than 250 short quotations, in a fresh order each visit

The archives here hold more of the same conversation, going back a long way. You’re welcome to stay.

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...in the same way a mountain offers up its springs. If a passing deer or mountain lion drinks, or not, no matter, water keeps flowing. Everything is offering...

Adapted from Non-Duality and Awakening, by Other Means… Two