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 …
Category: Mind
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 …
What is Enlightenment?
Takuin recently responded to the question What is Enlightenment? on his blog. His answer is excellent. “Enlightenment is limitless expansion within a limited field.” “The limited field is this physical world we all live within. …
The 4 Immeasurables
In Buddhism, they say 4 things will make the mind immeasurable. Brahma-Vihara is the 4 apramana or Immeasurables. Also known as the 4 virtues or most sublime attitudes. They are: Metta – loving-kindness Karuna – …
Feeding Your Demons
A couple of times recently, I’ve run into references to Feeding you Demons, a process for coming to terms with your “obsessions and fears, feelings of insecurity, chronic illnesses, or common problems like depression, anxiety, …
Agape
On this blog, I have spoken of Love vs. love, the difference between the Love of God and emotional love. While emotional love is a reflection of the first, it is a pale one. Recently, …
Relationship Threads – Part 2
There’s another aspect to our energetics that slowly becomes more clear. We not only have our internal energetic sludge but we also share it with others. This is the main reason why we seek out …
Energetic Sludge – Part 1
If you look at alternative health programs, you’ll run into stuff showing the kind of sludge that can build up in peoples bodies from years of poor diet habits. Yuck! Traditional medicine practices the world …
Layers and Wholeness
In the article intention, I observed the difference between pure intention arising out of wholeness and reactivity driven desires coming from conflict. This is a valid way of looking at it but in a follow-up …
Achieving Abundance
One of the things many people wish for in life is abundance. Having ones life needs, finances and livelihood well sufficient. Some people find abundance through simple consequence. What some call karma or past life …
The Dark Night
Recently during an off-line conversation, the subject of the “Dark Night of the Soul” came up. I touched on this subject once when talking about The Rapture. It is mainly a Christian idea although similar …