What is Yoga?
Yogasthah kuru karmani ‘Established in yoga, perform action.’ “Today, yoga is a household word and practiced by millions of people, yet few people know what yoga really is. The Sanskrit word yoga means ‘union’ and …
Category: Practice
5 Step Prayer, or so
Recently, a friend described the “5 Step Prayer” from Science of Mind. 1) Recognition – there is only God 2) Unification – you are One with God 3) Realization – the affirmative statement of change …
The Keys to Abundance
“When we unify, we are embracing the fullness of the present moment. Ironically, when we start to experience this inner completion and no longer feel previous desires, we start to create what we have always …
Peace Technology
I always find it interesting when research is published in peer-reviewed science journals that is paradigm-busting. “The hypothesis definitely raised some eyebrows among our reviewers. But the statistical work is sound. The numbers are there. …
The Dao
Recently, I’ve seen a couple of books on the Tao Te Ching, originally written by Lao Tzu some 2,500 years ago. Just 81 short verses, it is widely translated in many versions. The 2 versions …
The Goal of Enlightenment
For many years, my top goal was enlightenment. Until I had kids, it trumped all aces, even career. And then one day, I saw that there was no such thing as the enlightenment I had …
Questions
Sometimes, what is more important than answers is questions. Answers will take you into the mind. Questions can take you past the mind. Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Am I? Who …
The Power of Forgiveness
“Most questions of “why” or “how” indicate the need to escape from facing the truth of what is happening. Looking at what is, is the fastest way to understand… Thus, trying to figure out “why” …
One Process
A question from a good friend drew out an important point. Recently, I’ve written still more about the way reality can change in posts like “What Changes?” Yet it doesn’t matter what model or way …
The Shadow Knows
In the opening of Within Bliss, I joked about the ‘spiritually positive’. Some New Age and New Thought communities are rife with ‘Think Positivists’, the idea that if you think happy you’ll be happy. Now, …
Flavour
In Qualities and Quantities of Being, I touched on Taste or Rasa as an example of how one can understand the makeup of objects. I briefly touched on it’s importance in eating, but given the …
Ama
Ama is a Sanskrit word from Ayurveda meaning, basically, crud or sludge. (laughs) The basic idea is that when you eat poorly, too much, or otherwise compromise your digestion, the improperly digested crud is not …