Models of Awakening
When I first began exploring the nature of consciousness, I was fascinated by models of higher states of consciousness. I latched on to a model of 7 states which fortunately was one of the better …
Category: Ego
Death of a Story – Part 4
< Part 3 – Within the Identity Part 4 – Consequence One consequence this makes clear – self realization or awakening is not the desired goal. We want to complete the process. Genpo Roshi talks …
Death of a Story – Part 3
< Part 2 – How did it Happen Part 3 – Within the Identity After Unity, the process continues. There’s likely to be further ego shrapnel to see though. And now there is deeper levels …
Death of a Story – Part 2
< Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – How did it Happen How, we might ask, could all this mess happen? How could a field of infinite love, happiness, and peace possibly be caught in …
Death of a Story – Part 1 of 4
Here is the promised post(s). It became a minor epic. 😉 But I’ve not seen the new material further covered anywhere else. Part 1 – Overview In the process from before awakening through to Unity, …
Neti Neti
Neti Neti is an old Vedantic phrase meaning ‘Not this, not this’. Nothing of the phenomenal world or of experience. One describes That by what it is not. This is a useful starting place to …
Falling Away
“When you can see that all experiences are equal expressions of the One… and that feeling bound is just as much the One as feeling free…only then does the inner division, better known as ego, …
It IS Bliss
Back on Jed or Jedi, I touched on Tom Stine’s recent posts on the books of Jed McKenna. In a further post by Tom, a readers email suggested Jed makes enlightenment sound empty and boring. …
Sex and Spirituality
In a discussion on the Self Realization post, one commenter raised the question of celibacy and the spiritual path, suggesting abstinence and many years of continual celibacy were necessary for enlightenment. Until recent times, there …
How small the Person
One way of looking at what is – Totality, wholeness, fullness, source is all. To know itself, to experience itself, it “looks”, it intends, it surrenders to itself. In that allowing, fullness collapses into a …
The Living Story
Had an interesting insight this evening I thought worth sharing. In the past, I’ve talked about the Story, the shadow story of illusion that ego uses to explain the world. But it also keeps us …
Understanding the Vedas
In another discussion, I was invited to contribute to an on-line article on Sama Veda. I thought you might find the overview useful. I would not begin to consider myself an expert on Sama Veda. …