What Do You Amplify?
Occasionally on this site, a post attracts the angry. Mention of a teacher someone has an issue with or a subject that pushes someone’s buttons. Recently, a 6-year-old quote got someone going. The irony of …
Category: Practice
Fulfilling Needs
Our body, emotions and mind all have needs of one sort or another. The need for food, water, and air. For comfort and security. For love, intimacy, and companionship. For a making sense of the …
Behaviour – Before and After Enlightenment
A friend of mine raised an interesting point they’d heard in a talk. I thought it worth exploring as there’s a lot of nonsense out there about “enlightened behaviour” and such. When you wake up …
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 …
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 …