Karma and the Gunas
In the Gunas in Awakening, I talked about how inertia is transformed into clarity with fire, tamas into sattva via rajas. In this article, I’m going to talk more about karma. Karma means action, movement, …
Category: Practice
The Gunas in Awakening
Firstly, it’s useful to note what the gunas are. In Indian philosophy, all of the created world is said to arise from the interplay of 3 primary “forces” or qualities of Prakriti, nature. Elementally, these …
The Importance of Proper Technique
In the spiritual market these days is a plethora of things people call “meditation”. We may think of them as largely equivalent but in fact there are huge differences. Practised long term, they’ll bring us …
Food and Addiction
I’ve occasionally explored subjects like craving and food here. Several articles have come up recently on the topic I thought interesting. Firstly, in North America, research lead to an anti-fat movement in the 1960’s. We …
The Kingdom of Heaven
Recently, I heard that the Kingdom of Heaven was mentioned 80 times in the Bible. It was a key teaching of Jesus, that the Kingdom of Heaven was within. Not in the sky, not “out …
The Lords Prayer
If you’ve grown up in the west, you’ve probably been exposed to The Lords Prayer – perhaps quite regularly and for many years. The best known version is this, with only spelling updates from the …
Developing Intuition
This is a response to a question about intuition in another forum. I explore how it develops. It’s edited slightly for context. Firstly, claiming to get messages from God or preaching your beliefs or concepts …
Why Bliss?
In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell said “Follow you Bliss.” In more detail: “Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there …
Metanoia
Metanoia is curious word. In psychology, it means “experiencing a psychotic “break down” and subsequent, positive psychological re-building or “healing”.” Philosophically, it means rejecting consumerism and materialism as the basis of progress. And in theological …
The Physics of Hagelin
In this interview, Dr. John Hagelin discusses current physics and consciousness and the nature of reality. He’s an award-winning physicist that has appeared in What the Bleep and The Secret films. They talk about samadhi, …
Oprah meets with Deepak Chopra in India
For about 40 minutes, Oprah speaks with Deepak Chopra at a palace in Jaipur, not far from where Deepak grew up. They explore happiness, death, his recent time as a monk, his family & teachers, …
Consuming
Occasionally, I’ve written about food and diet here. How we sometimes use food as a form of protection, as a response to stress, as an escape, to ground, to support purification, as an avoidance of …