Buddha at the Gas Pump
Last fall, a public access TV show began in the US Midwest, out in the middle of the cornfields of Iowa. It’s an interview show with a diverse range of people who have had a …
Category: Perspective
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 …
The Roots of Relationship, Part 2
Part 1 People thus show up in our life for 2 reasons. The first is to help us come to balance. To purify or complete things we may have held together. Perhaps we have an …
The Roots of Relationship, Part 1 of 2
Starting a new relationship can be a wonderful time. But beginnings can also be a little bumpy. Understanding the dynamics can help to avoid the pitfalls and establish a deeper connection. There are 2 aspects …
Awakening the Body
We tend to think of enlightenment as an abstract future promise. A place where the transcendent peace we’ve experienced becomes an ongoing reality. Where we find an inner freedom. This place is known as Moksha …
To Battle and Surrender
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian, 1892-1971 That classic …
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. …