The Instructions
There’s a saying that floats around spiritual circles. The instructions are on the outside of the box. The box is the ego, the mental construct we have formed. Our separate reality. We need people or …
The Song in the Key of Life
When we listen to the radio, we’ll tend to hear songs about love. Love lost, love’s pain, love wanted, love remembered. But this love is the shadow love, the emotional love of duality. We know …
More Sex and Spirituality
Recently, Tom Stine raised the question of Sex and Spirituality. Is celibacy necessary or is sex a natural part of spirituality? This drew out many comments. There was a surprising degree of commonality given the …
Trusting Life
It’s astonishing what arises when we begin to simply trust life to be OK. While you may not think you “mistrust” life in any real way, our culture encourages us to fight and struggle with …
Ayurveda and Depression
An interesting article on the origins of depression in low digestive fire and unprocessed emotions. “From the ayurvedic perspective, emotional imbalance is caused by lack of coordination of an individual’s senses, emotions and thoughts.” “The …
Pattern
“Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the universe for the one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.” — Plato To me, the pattern is an …
Tat Tu
Tat tu samanvayat — Brahma Sutra 1.1.4 That is through it’s unifying nature. In other words, That exists because it is together, one. Existence arises and continues due to self-referral oneness. Most simply, we exist …
Cities and Ambition
An interesting article on the dominant zeitgeist of several American cities. Cities and Ambition (PDF) by Paul Graham In: Cambridge – you should be smarter Silicon Valley – you should be more powerful New York …
Lag
Please excuse the lag. I’ve got about a dozen articles in the queue but it’s been an odd week… D
Slarty’s Wisdom
One of the funniest lines in the Movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is this little bit of philosophy. It speaks nicely to the failings of many belief systems. While an idea may …
Seeing Death
In a discussion over on Takuin’s blog on Oneness, the subject of death came up. As an example, it was suggested death was unknowable. I suggested otherwise, which lead to this: On Death after Awakening: …
The Story
Today I was called to explain the Story briefly to someone without background in this. The essential idea is that in our evolutionary journey, there is a cycle of stepping away and a cycle of …