Handling Mud
Spiritual practices raise our light but also move the shadows, exposing mud. When we see muddy situations coming up in our experience, we have a few choices. 1) allow the mud to arise to be …
Category: Energy
When It’s Time
Nature works hard to fulfill all our desires. That may sound like a goofy and idealistic statement, but let’s explore. First, what do I mean by nature? Within universal consciousness, there are three aspects: the …
Grooves After Healing
I’ve spoken before about vasanas and samskaras. I wanted to share further insight. Vasanas are those unresolved experiences stored with an energetic charge. The energy comes from incomplete karma, plus further suppression that’s used to …
Sensitive
Something we recognize over time is how much we’ve built up crusts and resistance to our experience of being human in the modern world. It’s like we walk around armoured up, careful about letting anything …
Transformation – Elements and Gunas
The stages of enlightenment are not a goal but a platform for living a better quality of life. Even the movement in that direction improves life, both personally and collectively. I’ve often written about the …
Point Values
In many articles, I’ve talked about “head, heart, gut“, the way Adyashanti described the three core identifications. I ended up talking about them as the 3 am-egos. Head is the self-concept and mental identification with …
Prana and Intellect
In the Kosha model, the emotional body is called the prana or life-force body. This is where prana is fully embodied. However, we shouldn’t take this to mean it’s the sole realm of prana. Like …
Filling The Void
North America has an obesity epidemic. They relate this to what people are eating and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. But these are not what is driving the issue. These are symptoms. Food is being used …
The Cause of the Gunas
As I’ve described prior, the gunas are fundamental qualities within all things. Their balance determines how we experience objects and the lens we see them through. In brief, the gunas are: Sattva: purity or clarity …
Moving and Still
For much of our life, we’ve been immersed in movement, in activity. But after we learn to meditate, we begin to experience stillness. Then things seem to have two states, moving and still, relative and …
Our Storage
When we’re not accepting life as it is, there’s two ways we respond: – grasping or attachment, trying to hold on to what we want. – resistance or avoidance, pushing away what we don’t want. …
Others Actions
Karma means action but refers to both the doing and the consequences. It’s often described as unfathomable because it operates “in the commons.” Everything is intertwined with everything else. It’s also layered, causing action to …