Deepest Being
Back on the post How Deep?, I asked if it was going too deep to try and define what gives rise to existence in a blog format like this. In comments here and over at …
Do Be Do
Sounds like song? Do Be Do, Be Do Do… It also points to a principle. In order to be, we must do. This may sound wrong. In meditation, we’re taught to leave the field of …
Really?
Back on Takuin, the discussion continues about being. His points drew out some further thoughts, worthwhile as a post… If the reader is ready, the message will be heard. If it reflects reality well, it …
Pain
Pain, as in physical pain, can be a deeply challenging experience. It can overshadow our experience and quality of life in a number of ways. But the surprise is, you can handle it in much …
How Deep?
I was taking a bit more of a look around Takuin.com and came across his article on Being. He answers the question what is being? But we can then ask what is the source of …
The 8th Fire – a film
The 8th Fire, a film on First Nations prophesies Trailer web site: http://www.the8thfire.org/ Evidently, the 8th Fire is the fire within… “this beautiful movie inspired by a “Vision” of peace in a world at the …
Intention requires
Just listening to the second short free workshop by Lynne McTaggart on Intention. http://www.theintentionworkshops.com/ While they are an intro to a workshop intensive series coming, they cover some great material. In the talk she suggests …
Insight part 2
Last month, I wrote in Stroke of Insight about Jill Bolte Taylor’s conscious experience of a stroke. A fascinating presentation she gave at TED. While I disagreed with her understanding of the experience (brain hemispheres …
Next Life
Next Life by Woody Allen “In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s …
A new lay spirituality
A friend forwarded this to me from the Conversations with God folks. Dalai Lama on a New Spirituality: “I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. This new concept …
The evolving I
Tom has a great quote by Ramana Maharishi back on his blog. He talked about the difference between the false ‘I’ thought [idea] and the deeper true ‘I’ of absolute being. At first we seem …
What Awakes
In a discussion back at Tom’s blog, a fellow with bi-polar was asking about illness relative to spiritual progress. This turns out to be a perfect example of the difference between experience and being. If …