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 …
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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 …
Faith
In my own spiritual journey, faith has not been a strong feature. I am primarily on the path of perception, the karma yogi, with some gyan or path of understanding to guide it. In other …
The Lessons of Life
If we look at events in our life, we may notice both the consequences of choice or free will plus an element of determinism. That some things happen beyond what we intended. This can lead …
Diet and Liberation
Over on Takuin’s blog, he summarizes the results of a months fast. In the discussion, the question of diet and liberation came up. Many people consider a “pure” lifestyle to be necessary for liberation, with …
Death of a Story – Part 1 of 4
Here is the promised post(s). It became a minor epic. 😉 But I’ve not seen the new material further covered anywhere else. Part 1 – Overview In the process from before awakening through to Unity, …
Neti Neti
Neti Neti is an old Vedantic phrase meaning ‘Not this, not this’. Nothing of the phenomenal world or of experience. One describes That by what it is not. This is a useful starting place to …
Sex and Spirituality
In a discussion on the Self Realization post, one commenter raised the question of celibacy and the spiritual path, suggesting abstinence and many years of continual celibacy were necessary for enlightenment. Until recent times, there …
Fatigue
Making progress on our spiritual journey involves many factors, often out of our control. Indeed, even the idea that we have control is a barrier. (laughs) Please note that there is nothing wrong. There is …