Complete Forgiveness
Today, a series of articles on several blogs were posted on Forgiveness. This is a response to some of the feedback I’ve received. In no particular order. NOTE – if you land here first, you …
Category: Mind
Deep Forgiveness
Takuin and Albert (Urban Monk) decided to post on the subject of Forgiveness on the same day. They invited me and others to do the same. It’s an important subject and a good time of …
What’s Real?
Responses to a few questions on reality… What’s Real? When we answer questions about reality, we can look at it 2 ways. Firstly, there is reality that is unchanging, absolute, omnipresent silence. That which cannot …
Exploring Cognition
In a discussion forum with several experienced and awake people, we explored the nature of cognition. This is what I derived from the results. Cognitions are a specific form of experience characterized by a sense …
The Hidden Shoulds
I’ve written here before about the way the identity creates sub-conscious ‘shoulds’ and ‘needs‘, essentially fear driven resistance to what is. ie: “I should do X or Y might happen.” We end up acting from …
True Faith
If someone were to ask you about your faith, usually you’ll assume they mean what religion you follow. Many people will thus answer something like Catholic or Jewish or New Age or Atheist or even …
Pain Redux
The subject of pain has arisen again, so it would be useful to review the points. All pain, including physical and emotional, is a signal that something is wrong. All we have to do is …
What Leads to Awakening?
In a recent post, I spoke of how our gifts come, not from our suffering, but from the movement of life through us. This arose from the underlying idea that suffering is necessary and will …
Experience and Belief
We tend to think of experience as superior to belief. But there’s a phrase that gives it away – Seeing is Believing. The mind creates concepts about the world based on what we’re told and …
Our Gifts come from Our Suffering?
During a meeting with a friend of mine who’s a medium, we had a rather instructive conversation. She said that our pain and lessons bring us what we have to offer. Our gifts to others …
Emergence
In a number of posts here, I have spoken of the cycles of growth. Typically I refer to balance, disintegration, growth, integration, and repeat. In a talk recently, we discussed Teilhard de Chardin’s view of …
Not Nada
Recently, in a discussion over on Takuin’s blog, I was reminded of an issue to be alert to on the journey. It is not uncommon to go through a nada phase, a place where much …