Experience vs Being
A few times recently, the subject of experiences vs being has come up again. Often, people will have profound experiences of higher states of consciousness prior to actual awakening. These experiences are very valuable as …
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The Muse
We’ve all heard the message that in order to be a great artist, we must suffer. That the creative muse is a fickle thing, showing up at awkward times and vanishing when she is most …
Mantra, Mantra
Awhile back I started an article on meditation but it soon became clear this was more like a small book than a blog post. I decided to write on just one aspect that is less …
Why Do I Choose This?
Back on the What do you Want?, I shared Adyashanti’s quote “In the end, you will always do the thing you wanted to do most.” In The Good Story, I touch on how the world …
Resisting Resistance
Over on Albert’s blog, Urban Monk, he wrote of how we secretly want to suffer. In a discussion in comments something came out I thought was interesting. If we understand that the ego-identity structure is …
Secrets of Success, Part 1 of 5
One of the curious things about life is that success and happiness are it’s nature. The very function of it’s movement through our lives. Yet while many of us live a life, we find happiness …
Awakening is not Experienced
I was discussing Adyashanti’s idea of abiding and non-abiding awakening with a good friend of mine last night. He reminded me of an important observation to make on this subject. I touched on it in …
The End of Your World Overview – Adyashanti
I ended up writing a number of posts around points raised in Adyashanti’s new book, The End of Your World. If you’re interested, here are links to the related articles. The End of Your World …
Fear
The mechanism of suffering is quite simple. We experience a shadow or cloud that obscures the experience of love. There is no change in the flow of love, only in our awareness or perception of …
The Yogas or Paths
I regularly mention the various paths here and realized I’d not covered this here. There are as many paths to Oneness as there are people. People exist to experience Self or source in different ways, …
Seeing with the Heart
There’s an interesting phenomena that takes place in the evolution of perception. One that may not make sense in our typical understanding of how the senses work. But if we understand that senses and their …
Seeking vs. Gaining
When either a soul or a human is young, they feel a sense of connection to the whole. They are part of the unified one. As the soul or person starts to differentiate itself, the …