Wait For It…
There are many out there promoting goal setting and manifesting your desires. And there is good value in some of that content. But the part you have to be careful of is trying to control …
Category: Ego
Dignity
In another forum, the subject of dignity came up. One person attributed it to the ego, saying it was something we’d lose with awakening. However, if we consider dignity in the sense of self respect, …
Truth
One of the curious things about the human mind is it’s seeking to be right. But seeing the world in black and whites of right and wrong automatically pits one against others, even against oneself. …
Goal Setting
On her Awakened Dreamer blog, Lori Ann Lothian recently posted an article about goal-setting called The 4 Types of Goal-Setters Pre and Post Awakening: Which One Are You? “Recently someone posted on an enlightenment FB …
Rays of the Absolute
Neti Neti Films has recently released a labour of love. Rays of the Absolute is a documentary with archival footage of Nisargadatta and more recent meetings with some of his core students. Shot in 2007, …
Resolving Problems
I’ve written before on very practical ways of solving problems. I’d like to take a more energetic look at the subject because sometimes the problems are showing up due to how we’re being internally. For …
The Dynamics of Self
On a recent retreat, Lorne Hoff briefly mentioned the correspondence of individual and cosmic. It’s a useful note to make. As is described in philosophies like the Indian Samkhya, our personhood has a three-fold structure …
Emotional Diversity
There’s an interesting change in group consciousness that’s happened in very recent times I’ve heard a couple of people mention but which is largely unrecognised in the wider community. And yet it has made a …
Witnessing vs Awakening
There is an important distinction between when someone starts to witness and the Self Realization of awakening. I spoke to this prior on Stages of Witnessing but its worth exploring in various ways. The witness …
The Origins of Addiction
We tend to think of addiction as an uncontrollable need to repeat behaviours that are less than desirable. Perhaps by “addiction” we think of substance addictions, like to drugs or alcohol. Or to “impulse control” …
Correction vs Evolution
The experience of living life after a well-established awakening is quite distinct. Not everyone speaks of this or even notices the change if it came gradually. Only in retrospect or in seeing someone else struggle …
Behaviour – Before and After Enlightenment
A friend of mine raised an interesting point they’d heard in a talk. I thought it worth exploring as there’s a lot of nonsense out there about “enlightened behaviour” and such. When you wake up …