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 …
Category: Perspective
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 …
Beyond the Known book
Takuin has released a free eBook called Beyond The Known – 365 Days of Exploration. It’s a book rich with brief but salient aphorisms, one for each day of the year. From a prior introductory …
Below Fear
Fear is an interesting emotion to look at. If you study emotional scales like Sedona’s or Hawkins*, you find emotions like apathy and shame lower (or darker) on the scale than fear. Yet subconscious fear …
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 …
Castle of Brahman
In the center of the castle of Brahman, our own body, there is a small shrine in the form of a lotus flower, and within can be found a small space. We should find who …
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 …
Out of Bliss
Anandaddhyeva khalwimani bhutani jayante anandena jatani jivanti anandam prayanty abhisamwishanti Out of bliss these beings are born, In bliss they are sustained, And to bliss they go and merge again. — Taittiriya Upanishad 3.6.1 Why …
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 …