The Source
Recently, I was rereading All Love Flows to the Self, a book of stories from the Upanishads. I’ve mentioned this quote from the Taittiriya Upanishad (3.6.1) before: Out of bliss these beings are born, In …
Category: Mind
Where’s the Bliss?
Seems this is the topic of the month as I’ve come back to it again. Terms like sat chit ananda and nirvana refer to an established awakening. Both reference bliss, so bliss is clearly an …
Moving to Acceptance
The nature of the world is change. Circumstances will change, people will leave or die, and things we value will fall apart or be lost. Even someone enjoying lots of good karma is going to …
The Dark Side
We all have a spectrum of clarity. There are those areas in the light (conscious), those in the shadows (sub-conscious), and those in the dark (unconscious). There is also a spectrum within each. For example, …
Basics
In the first few years of life, we’re like sponges, soaking up experiences and learning how to perceive the world and move around in it. We experience mostly in the physical, then emotional bodies. Before …
A Philosophy of Consciousness
Recently, I ran into the below talk by Swami Sarvapriyananda of Vedanta NY on the philosophy of consciousness found in Eastern thought. He reviews the major unsolved problems in modern Western philosophy and how most …
On Truth
As enlightenment unfolds, we gain access to knowledge previously hidden and experience qualities of perfection and truth. The layers between pure consciousness and our surface experience come to light. In time, what has unfolded in …
The Evolving I
First, let’s define some terms and their source. Atman: the cosmic Self, pure consciousness. Awareness of our impersonal existence (Isness). When consciousness becomes self-aware, it does so both globally and at every point. Generally, atman …
Handling Mud
Spiritual practices raise our light but also move the shadows, exposing mud. When we see muddy situations coming up in our experience, we have a few choices. 1) allow the mud to arise to be …
Grooves After Healing
I’ve spoken before about vasanas and samskaras. I wanted to share further insight. Vasanas are those unresolved experiences stored with an energetic charge. The energy comes from incomplete karma, plus further suppression that’s used to …
Memory
Memory is a very curious thing. For example, there is a perspective in which everything that’s ever happened has been recorded. There is another perspective where nothing has ever happened. And another where everything we …
Templates
The level (kosha) of the intellect is one of relationship, also known as subtle or sacred geometry. Points of awareness create relationships that lead to geometry and structure. Sound modulates this, giving rise to form. …