Why Bliss?
In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell said “Follow you Bliss.” In more detail: “Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there …
Category: Heart
Consuming
Occasionally, I’ve written about food and diet here. How we sometimes use food as a form of protection, as a response to stress, as an escape, to ground, to support purification, as an avoidance of …
The Remains of Ignorance
Much as many awake people say they lost their ego, there is still a person there with preferences, winding down their karma. It can certainly seem like the ego is gone. Some even experience a …
The Q&A Series
In a Non-Duality forum, a discussion turned into a series of questions and answers. Because life was rather busy and there was no time for research and writing, I posted some of my responses as …
Q&A, Part 9
The discussion has gone in other directions now so it seems this Q&A is finally done. 😉 The start Part 8 … Yes, Nisargadatta had a spontaneous awakening with no tradition. He did not see …
Q&A, Part 8
The conversation degraded into discounting. I thought it might wind down. But… If comments puzzle, do search the terms here. You may also find it useful to read the conversation from the beginning as some …
Q&A, Part 7
Funny – I began pasting the comments here to provide some content while life was too full to write much. But the conversation has continued. These are replies to multiple people. Still working on the …
Thank You
There is a subject that’s come up in conversations several times recently. I thought it worth touching on again. That is the profound value of gratitude. Not in a fake sense of thanks or a …
Our Deepest Knots
I’ve been working though a bit of a backlog of old article ideas. A good while back I took a yoga class with an even more effortless, bliss-producing approach. They spoke about our deepest burdens. …
Peace
In case you are unaware, tomorrow is the UN International Day of Peace. There are events happening all over the world. Some are being live-streamed in a 24 hour schedule. (PDF) They ask: Who will …
The Worlds, Part 2
< Part 1 Lokas On the subject of lokas, there is a considerable mis-emphasis in interpretation of someone else’s subjective experience. Often, it turns into a debate on who is “right” when it’s just different …
Belief or Experience
When talking about God or angels and related topics, the discussion usually revolves around belief. One’s statements are categorized as Theist (believer), Agnostic (dubious), and Atheist (Non-believer). Militant atheists like Dawkins go so far as …