The Kingdom of God
“Someone who does not take a trip to the Kingdom of God (Transcendental Consciousness or samadhi), he remains searching for it – all pursuits, this and this, and greater pursuits. But unless totality is fathomed …
Category: Practice
The One True Sound
The most famous symbol and sound from Sanskrit is the classic “OM”. Only it’s completely messed up. Why is this important? Because we’re talking about the alphabet of nature itself, the sounds that give rise …
The Cosmic Story
I am inviting you, just as Papaji invited me, to stop telling the story. That is very different from making the story wrong. It is simply “Stop telling it.” Then there is an invitation to …
How Important Is Your Spiritual Life?
This came as a message today from a local Unity church. Rabbi Ram Shapiro says “a growing number of people are not affiliated with any religious tradition and a third of adults under thirty are …
Yoga in the Schools
India has recently announced they intend to teach Yoga in schools to celebrate their heritage. That is a beautiful thing. Yoga is one of the 6 darshanas or systems of knowledge. Broadly, they can each …
The Prison of Knowledge
Any teaching can be a prison – for the teacher or the student. Teachings are meant to be pointers, ways to guide the attention so that what it lands on flowers. A teacher may use …
Everything’s Okay
Everything’s okay when everything’s okay. How we are with what arises makes all the difference. Here it is in song by Ranj Singh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Ad9aVXNTU And if you like his songs like I do, here’s a …
Karma and the Awake
A few weeks ago, I posted an article on Karma Post-Enlightenment. Since then, it’s become a very popular article but also the subject has come up several times in life events. I thought it worth …
Healing the Past without Being the Past
When looking at healing modalities there’s an important distinction to be made between practices that help you become conscious of unresolved emotions and those that take you into them. Becoming conscious of them helps you …
The Gunas and Emotions
There are a number of ways the sages of old describe the three-way structure of consciousness and creation. Creation, maintenance, and destruction. Observed object, process of observing, and observer. Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. But by the …
Stages of Clearing (Part 5)
In prior articles, I’ve outlined the stages described in the Bhagavad Gita on how we become conscious of karma, the energy of action and how we’re responding to events. At first, we become aware after …
Calling Grace (Part 4)
One of the more interesting aspects of Nancy Shipley Rubin‘s recent workshop was on Grace. In most spiritual traditions we are essentially culturing the ground (body, emotions, mind) and waiting for that moment of grace …