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 …
Category: Consciousness
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 …
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 …
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 …
Follow the Love
Muse recently wrote an article on the song “Don’t Go With Your Song Inside You“. It’s evidently the song that closes Wayne Dyer’s new flick The Shift. Joseph Campbell famously said “follow your bliss“. Let …
Surrendering Enlightenment
I’ve often spoken of the surrender or allowing of the spiritual journey. It shows up in many ways, at many stages. There is the acceptance of ourselves and feelings while we clear our emotional dramas. …
Layers of the Soul
The challenge with using Sanskrit terms is that, though the meaning is often more precise, English doesn’t always have an equivalent concept. For example, I’ve avoided the term Atman as it’s understood poorly and it’s …
Mostly Eternal
An interesting bit of Sanskrit showed up recently. “Pripad Asyamritam Divi”. This basically means 3/4’s is Amrit. Amrit is typically thought to mean nectar or ambrosia, specifically the nectar of immortality. It’s literal meaning is …
Adyashanti comes to town
This week, Adyashanti was in town for 2 evening satsangs. Although I talk about him fairly often on this blog, he is one of the few such teachers that I’ve not actually met. At one …