Who Speaks?
In the recent post The Power of Speech, I touched on the power of the voice and value of speaking from truth rather than stories. After awakening, this dynamic becomes more conscious. It becomes clear …
Category: Practice
The Power of Speech
In both spiritual circles and popular expressions, we find a number of sayings that suggest something important about our voice. Always speak the sweet truth. Sticks and stones… Never speak ill of another. Thy word …
Good Resistance
I talk a lot here about resistance. How we can recognize it and how to allow and let it go. How some will call it stress or karma or identification. But we should not demonize …
Awake Asleep
My early understandings of higher states of consciousness and enlightenment came from various sources but the one clearest to me was the one in Campbell’s 7 States of Consciousness. In that model, the experience of …
Remembering Spirit
Occasionally, I have written about Deep Memory, the subtle structure of being itself. At it’s most fundamental, it is Veda, pure knowledge. In prior posts, I’ve mentioned the value of spiritual study. In essence this …
Deep Retreat
Apologies for the lag in posts. I spent a week on retreat and it’s taking a little time to get caught up. The retreat with LornLucia (a name symbolic of their unity) was quite distinct …
The Battle to Surrender
It recent readings, it occurs to me there is 2 opposite approaches to the spiritual journey here. The Bhagavad Gita presents the spiritual journey as a battle to overcome ego, mind and sense control. In …
Samskaras
In Getting It Straight, I spoke of the process of clearing old habits of mind. The eastern perspective on this can add some further clarity. “A thought or physical act once performed does not cease …
Getting it Straight
We carry so many habits of mind… As we move along our spiritual journey, circumstances bring various habits of thinking to the surface to be seen. Some habits are good ones. To be nice. To …
Clearing Clarity
Sometimes, we can be disturbed by surfacing emotions. Or a sense of something being unresolved, incomplete. A shadow is cast over our day. We may even notice physical sensations. This is something we just allow. …
Practical Maya
In the past, I’ve written about the 3 forms of Maya, the dream of the world. When inertia (tamas) is dominant, Maya presents a covering. It hides. When activity (rajas) is dominant Maya is the …
The Bestest Present Ever
I’d like to give you a gift. The best present you’ll ever have. But it’s not something I can give you because you already have it. But perhaps I can point it out to you. …