The Inner Guru
Again, over on Interconnected vs Oneness, comments expanded to cover a subject worth posting. First thing to understand is that each of us have a dominant mode of experience or sense. Some are visual, some …
Category: Heart
Desperately Seeking Security
Isha has a guest article in the Washington Post “On Faith” column. A few excerpts: “In our society, we have learned to look for security in the wrong place: we look for it outside of …
Awake Dating
While I would certainly not call myself a dating expert, I thought it would be useful to consider how it changes with dating consciously and awakening. A lot of what we call “chemistry” is emotional …
More Sex and Spirituality
Recently, Tom Stine raised the question of Sex and Spirituality. Is celibacy necessary or is sex a natural part of spirituality? This drew out many comments. There was a surprising degree of commonality given the …
Trusting Life
It’s astonishing what arises when we begin to simply trust life to be OK. While you may not think you “mistrust” life in any real way, our culture encourages us to fight and struggle with …
Ayurveda and Depression
An interesting article on the origins of depression in low digestive fire and unprocessed emotions. “From the ayurvedic perspective, emotional imbalance is caused by lack of coordination of an individual’s senses, emotions and thoughts.” “The …
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 …
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 …
Divine Relationship
In a number of spiritual and religious traditions, there is the role of Bhakti or devotion. The path of the heart. Usually, it is presented as a devotion to God or a representative of God …
Intention vs Allowing
Intention is directed awareness. We use it all the time. But are we forcing? Pushing something? Or resisting? Or is it simple focused attention? Allowing can seem to be it’s opposite yet it is much …