The Seven Aspects of Life to be Realized
Chapter 8 of the Bhagavad Gita opens with Prince Arjuna asking Krishna questions, based on his statements at the close of the prior chapter. Krishna responds with 7 definitions that are the aspects of life …
Core Spiritual Practices
In the West, we live in a very mind-oriented culture. A practice like an effortless mantra meditation is excellent for balancing that experience. It uses the mind to go beyond it, into our deeper nature. …
Shankara Said…
I have frequently mentioned the quote: “The world is unreal Only Brahman is real The world is Brahman” – Shankara This statement is accurate, but Jerry Freeman pointed out that there is no evidence Shankara …
Podcast with Matt on Awakening, Trauma, and Embodiment
Recently, I had a conversation with Matt K., one of the teachers at The Centre for Healing. Unlike prior interviews, we went more into my childhood, then the discovery of meditation, witnessing, and on into …
Seven Factors of Awakening
I ran into a Wikipedia article on the Seven Factors of Awakening (sapta bodhyanga) from Buddhism. This is a different tradition than mine, but one that points in the same direction. I found some good …
A Process Model of Awakening
Gareth of Endless Possibilities interviewed awake scientist Pierce Salguero. Pierce has proposed a non-stages model of awakening with 4 “threads” that we might think of as styles of experiencing the process. It’s a very inclusive …
We Are
We are emanations of the Divine We are uncreated We are one We are consciousness We are cosmic, even the body We are love We are eternal We are the universe We are joy We …
Questions about Existence and Creation
Recently, a reader had some questions I thought worth sharing. I’ve updated the responses for context. Q: What is the difference between existence and creation? A: Existence is a sense created by awareness noticing itself. …
Cracked Open
In this conversation, Riyaz Motan, Adyashanti, John Prendergast, and Johnathan Gustin explore the awakening journey with serious illness and facing our mortality. Having been through a round of this myself, along with the premature death …
Self or No-Self
We’ve all been through shifts in developmental stages, be it from toddler to school-aged or perhaps into Unity. Stage shifts can be significant milestones as our sense of who we are changes, and with it, …
Practices
In the recent post on Types of Meditation, I discussed three types of practices and said I would adopt the model. I’ve updated that part of the Recommendations page. I thought it would be useful …
Our Natural Potential Audiobook
Some of you have asked me to do an audio book in my voice. There would be advantages to that, but I don’t have a controlled environment to record in, nor do I have the …