Why Tell a Story?
Recently ran into a great article on Why Tell a Story, by Gina Lake. “Every experience we have ever had is in the past. It’s gone, and will never be here again. All we have …
Category: Mind
Cities and Ambition
An interesting article on the dominant zeitgeist of several American cities. Cities and Ambition (PDF) by Paul Graham In: Cambridge – you should be smarter Silicon Valley – you should be more powerful New York …
The Story
Today I was called to explain the Story briefly to someone without background in this. The essential idea is that in our evolutionary journey, there is a cycle of stepping away and a cycle of …
Layers of the Soul
The challenge with using Sanskrit terms is that, though the meaning is often more precise, English doesn’t always have an equivalent concept. For example, I’ve avoided the term Atman as it’s understood poorly and it’s …
Adyashanti comes to town
This week, Adyashanti was in town for 2 evening satsangs. Although I talk about him fairly often on this blog, he is one of the few such teachers that I’ve not actually met. At one …
Sheldrakes Habits
Last week I got a chance to hear Rupert Sheldrake speak again. He spoke of 2 competing paradigms of science in recent history – the model of fixed laws and the evolutionary model, giving examples …
Effortless Meditation
For a core practice, I recommend an effortless meditation. While this is not what everyone needs, it is one of the most potent tools for most of us. Not only is there the rest and …
What is Yoga?
Yogasthah kuru karmani ‘Established in yoga, perform action.’ “Today, yoga is a household word and practiced by millions of people, yet few people know what yoga really is. The Sanskrit word yoga means ‘union’ and …
The Spiritual Ego
This last spring, I had a correspondence with Katie Davis. It was a little awkward, it turned out to be because we use some terminology very differently. I’ve spoken in the past about the spectrum …
Within Habit
In Mind and Belief, I touched on how the habit mind works, the nature of belief, and the way of illusion. But there is a deeper understanding we can explore. The mind stores data “in …
5 Step Prayer, or so
Recently, a friend described the “5 Step Prayer” from Science of Mind. 1) Recognition – there is only God 2) Unification – you are One with God 3) Realization – the affirmative statement of change …
Mind and Belief
This is in response to a discussion in another forum on the nature of belief. The best way to understand the mind is that when we repeat certain actions or patterns of thought, we program …