Arjuna Before and After
I continue to gradually read the Yog Vasistha. As I mentioned in the beginning, the book is a discourse between the sage Vasistha and Rama, mostly told in stories. It is told in the royal …
Category: Consciousness
Concepts vs Being
In another forum, the basic issue with concepts arose. Edited for the blog. There is a very subtle but important point. We hear someone we respect say something and we believe it to be true. …
The Insistent Concept
In another forum was another voice for the world as illusion and only awareness is real and eternal so there is no process and nothing to do. Just see this. Or rather think you see …
The Neo-Advaita Fog
Neo-Advaita is a kind of popularized or “new age” version of non-duality and Vedanta that’s based in concepts rather than being. Vedanta is the end of Veda or knowledge, the understanding we arrive at late …
Yoga Limbs
When I first began on the spiritual journey, I studied a number of eastern texts outlining aspects of the path. One common understanding was that there was a series of Yogas, each suitable for different …
Gulf Oil
The oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico is certainly an active topic, both in the news and in spiritual communities. As one notable broadcast clarifies, the incident is not new, nor has the recovery …
Chopra’s Meditation
As I mentioned in the Deepak Chopra post, he unexpectedly taught everyone in the audience (hundreds) to meditate during the second half of his talk. I found this particularly interesting as meditation is usually taught …
Deepak Chopra in Vancouver
Last week, through a curious circumstance, I won a ticket to see Deepak Chopra speak here. It was a good seat too, up front and center. The talk was to cover the content of 2 …
The Knowable Future
Is the future knowable? Certainly lots of people build models to try to predict economic trends, population growth, and so forth. And we can say that the future is built of the consequences of the …
Knowing Death
One of the curious things about some spiritual communities is that while they speak in great detail about higher states of consciousness, they barely touch on death. While they consider exalted states of being highly …
On Deathlessness
And yet another email, this one coincidental. Dr. David Frawley wrote an article called “On Deathlessness“. It begins: The greatest fear that all living beings have is the fear of death. The fear of death …
The Great Death
Due to recent circumstances and posts, a friend of mine sent me a link to an Adyashanti talk from 2002 called The Great Death. While the title is a reference to awakening, much of the …