Within Habit
In Mind and Belief, I touched on how the habit mind works, the nature of belief, and the way of illusion. But there is a deeper understanding we can explore. The mind stores data “in …
Category: Humor
Conversation
On the journey of awakening, many aspects of the person fall away. Here and there, we can run into unexpected and amusing consequences for a short while during adaptation. Simple things like routine conversation can …
Hokey?
What if the ‘Hokey Pokey’ really is what it’s all about? One of those jokes that showed up today. But it illustrates a point being discussed in comments. Reality is what you think it is. …
The Ramayana
The epic story of Rama has recently come up in several ways. The wise have suggested the story is playing out on the global stage right now. Ravana (ego)(& a certain past president) has captured …
Dance badly, live free
Back in April, I posted a link to the funny Gratitude Dance, 2 fellows from Victoria named Brad and Matt. This evening, some friends and I were watching some YouTube videos on their new flat …
A Poem
I ran into this today… In Too Deep by Gloria Sarasin A big bull frog had jumped and found Himself no longer on the ground. A pail of water, cold and deep, That from its’ …
Should we devolve?
Were things better in the “old days”? Do you like the past better than the present? Does the future seem to be getting worse? How does the future get worse – it doesn’t exist yet. …
Quite Enough?
Eric Idle of Monty Python fame sings on the scale of things. “…So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth…” The stats he uses have various scales. Here’s …
Forms of Resistance
So whats all this “resistance” anyway? I’ve mentioned before that everything is either fullness or resistance. So if you are not experiencing happiness, peace, and freedom, you are experiencing resistance. This takes many forms. – …
Star light, star bright
Back on Deepest Being, I briefly touched on a stage of existence, just outside first mind (and illusion), where awareness becomes self-aware at every point. At that value, awareness is like a foam. A foam …
The Play
Back in Living the Dream, I spoke of how the world is a great big shared dream. There is another aspect of this thats worth covering. Life is also a big playground. Lila, they call …
The Pout
Earlier I posted on Expectations and the root of suffering. As we begin to see through the illusion and see the stories playing out in our life, it can sometimes be a little surprising. As …