The Evolution of the I
What is this sense of self, I-ness? How does it evolve? For most people, their sense of I is this body-mind. I am this person with this name who has these thoughts and feelings and …
Category: Mind
OOOPs
From Vasistha’s Yoga (translated by Swami Venkatesananda) IV:39 Valmiki is speaking: “..if he is not enabled fully to understand the truth, his mind will not find rest. As long as the mind is swayed by …
The Mirrors of Life
I’ve seen a few talks by Gregg Braden that I found tiresome. The way he uses science is way too sloppy. It was much the same last week while a group of us watched his …
When Karma Ends
There is an experience that sometimes arises after awakening or Self realization – that the karma or obligatory experiences from our past have ended. That awakening totally roasts our mountains of karma and now we …
What is Compassion Without Passion?
There is a tendency in many spiritual circles to focus on the positive. See the light and give no attention to the dark side. After all, what you give your attention to grows. Beware the …
Waking Down
In several of the awakening interviews on Buddha at the Gas Pump, they mention the role of Waking Down to Mutuality. Where their long practice of meditation brought them close to waking, but their process …
One Being
Recently in another discussion forum, someone raised the question of the 2 selves. The unchanging inner Self and the changing personal self. This is a classic experience around Self Realization. The witness Self observing the …
Understanding God Realization
To explore God Realization in our culture, first you have to surmount our deeply embedded ideas about “God”. For one, they’ll be the initial do believe/ don’t believe/ don’t know. As if deity has something …
Healing the Animal
There’s an aspect of spiritual awakening that is not always talked about. The process of awakening is a movement to total integration. This means not only awakening to our higher spiritual selves but to our …
Who is Doing, Anyway?
Recently, I received the following question. The answer seemed worth sharing. Just read your post Wisdom Intention. Intention implies wanting and in turn doing. If this is true, who is wanting and doing? How does …
Enlightenment will make it Better
In a discussion in another forum a couple of weeks ago, the idea that Enlightenment will fix our broken selves came up. What you have to remember is that this business of “living up to …
Wisdom Intention
Intention is the driver of all things in the world. It brings everything into our life and propels us forward. But there are, we could say, 2 kinds of intention. There are the intentions that …