Change Control?
Last night, former US President Bill Clinton spoke in town. Evidently, he gave a wide-ranging talk on a number of global issues. On Haiti, his current project, he spoke in essence of the “teach a …
Category: Ego
Lost Purpose
Spiritual writers often talk a lot about subjects like ego identification and the suffering that results from it. We may get the sense that ego is bad, but this is a misunderstanding of its role …
The Space-Time Container
An interesting discussion arose over in comments on Takuins blog on his post The Road to Enlightenment. It was a podcast response to a question about a progression to Enlightenment. We both did some musing …
The Three Malas
A Mala can refer to prayer beads in both Buddhist and Hindu traditions. They are used for practicing Japa meditation, a counted repetition of the mantra. This is very similar to the Christian rosary. But …
Resistance
The following comments are edited from a discussion in another forum: Resistance is so pervasive in most peoples lives, such a habit, that we don’t realize we’re doing it. We can point to concepts or …
Senior Moments
There’s a curious flaw in the ego story we develop to try and control life. We avoid writing an ending as that would mean an end of control. When the inevitable end begins to approach, …
The Evolution of the I
What is this sense of self, I-ness? How does it evolve? For most people, their sense of I is this body-mind. I am this person with this name who has these thoughts and feelings and …
One Being
Recently in another discussion forum, someone raised the question of the 2 selves. The unchanging inner Self and the changing personal self. This is a classic experience around Self Realization. The witness Self observing the …
Understanding God Realization
To explore God Realization in our culture, first you have to surmount our deeply embedded ideas about “God”. For one, they’ll be the initial do believe/ don’t believe/ don’t know. As if deity has something …
Healing the Animal
There’s an aspect of spiritual awakening that is not always talked about. The process of awakening is a movement to total integration. This means not only awakening to our higher spiritual selves but to our …
Enlightenment will make it Better
In a discussion in another forum a couple of weeks ago, the idea that Enlightenment will fix our broken selves came up. What you have to remember is that this business of “living up to …
To Battle and Surrender
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian, 1892-1971 That classic …