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Simplicity isn’t a result, an outcome of effort or aspiration. You can’t cultivate it by de-cluttering or embracing the ‘zen’ aesthetic.
Like wild wideawakeness simplicity is a reflection of original innocence – uncomplicated, unadorned, naked.
It flowers naturally when there’s no longer anyone who needs to impress their apparent world with aggrandizement of body or belongings – including the intellect and the movie of personal experience.
Simplicity surfaces when thinking knows its place.
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echoes from emptiness 
Simplicity, then, is the proper nature (swarupa) of mind. As you say, it is not gotten through effort or imitation… it is naturalness, unpretentiousness.
Precisely dear AM. It’s astonishing how little one really needs for a healthy and yet productive life, don’t you think? Some tucker, shelter, a garment or two … and I notice how these are provided by the ‘universe’ if one’s primary concern is the Real, rather than illusory self-security.
Grace has such soft sheltering wings …
~ ml