Feeling is Believing
Recently, I did another workshop on working with your energy centres with Nancy Shipley Rubin. It was part 2 of the “solution field” process we learned last fall. While the workshop covered all chakras, I’ll …
Category: Practice
The Curious Nature of Awakening
There are some curious paradoxes around spiritual awakening. Some cannot really be met by the mind. We say it happened through grace or the mystery or by “accident.” But some aspects we can address. For …
The Buddha still had Bad Days
A nice little clip on Enlightenment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOzH1ycoBYQ A few quotes: “..you will not meet a physically manifested being who is in alignment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” “…the big waves no longer …
Solving Problems
Recently, I attended an afternoon workshop by Mark McCooey, a very successful businessman involved in multiple industries and several non-profits. The workshop covered problem-solving techniques he’s developed, based partly on the work of Byron Katie. …
The Process is the Goal
During a talk today I heard a quote from Oprah I thought excellent. I can’t confirm its source but it’s worth sharing. “When you make the process the goal, the dream reveals itself.” –Oprah Look …
Making a Living through Precession (Bucky Fuller)
In 1927, R. Buckminster Fuller committed himself and his family to working as he saw nature working. He documents this process, and the spiritual experience he had that started it, in his book Critical Path …
Four Mayas
Awhile back, I wrote about the 3 forms of Maya described by Shankara. The way we perceive the world is dependent on the dominant guna or quality through which we experience it. Guna means string …
Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …
Unity and Brahman
There’s another key way of differentiating between Unity and Brahman. In Cosmic Consciousness or Self Realization, we recognize ourselves as the Seer or Observer. In Unity, we recognize the same Seer in the objects of …
Expectations and Experience
Expectations can have a strong effect on our experience of life. If we have heavier feelings about life, we’ll tend to have lower or darker expectations. Because what we put our attention on grows stronger, …
Culturing the Feelings
In another forum, I made the following comment as some of the “enlightenment fundamentalists” were categorically discounting energy work. I think it worth noting an observation. In India, they have historically had a profound devotional …
Question Affirmations
During Nancy’s workshop, she made an interesting suggestion. She suggested you frame affirmations as a question, placing the future in the present. For example, “What will I need to accomplish X?” The question assumes it …