Desire vs Craving
When I was writing some notes about the recent show with Eckhart on Oprah, I realized I had not posted on this important point. How to tell when a desire arises from ego and when …
Category: Practice
The Practice
The discussion in Spirit continues on Tom’s blog. Tom comes back to the question of practice. What role does a practice really have in our path if its really Self waking to Itself? What is …
Egos and Cults
A few days ago, I posted an article about recently published research in the American Journal of Hypertension that demonstrated meditation as a useful tool in lowering blood pressure. Frankly, I’m surprised there is still …
Gratitude Dance
Ran into this amusing little clip on MusEditions. Turns out the zany guys shot it locally, in Victoria on the SW corner of Canada. The third step in expressing gratitude is… http://www.youtube.com/v/R9z2ELaBVJY
Cooling It
Press on a new hyertension meta-study: Ponder This: Meditation Can Lower High Blood Pressure David O’Hara (David O’Hara is a writer and researcher in the field of natural health. He is a graduate of the …
Finding a Teacher Pt 3
After speaking about a Teacher, then responding to comments about finding a teacher, I ran into some interesting pages today. Now, certainly, I’ve seen some of those guru-busting sites but they typically have a broad …
Finding a Teacher, Pt II
Recently, I wrote about finding a teacher for our path. In considering that, another aspect of this came to mind – the areas where we may need a teacher. Firstly, to me, is someone to …
Mastermind
Back in the ’80’s, I had my first experience of a Mastermind group through a course I took. Its a concept that was developed by Napoleon Hill in the ’30’s. Since then, I’ve enjoyed such …
The teacher
From a discussion about a group of spiritual teachers: We may see enlightenment as a goal or end point, but its not. It is a process, like all other human development. There are certain key …
Be Here Now
Back in the ’60’s, one of the “mantras”, along with ‘peace, man’, was ‘Be Here Now’. But most of us didn’t really ‘get it’. The agenda was anti-: anti-war, anti-establishment. It was the ego talking. …
Eckhart episode list
In the post on Eckhart on Oprah, I talked a little about the shows and how to get them for seeing on your time. Here is an episode list: The 10 sections/ chapters are: Monday, …
Napoleon speaks
Napoleon Hill himself, talking about his fundamental principles as elucidated in “Think and Grow Rich”. http://www.youtube.com/v/_TNS-0pHzjo You also may be interested in a prior post on his discovery of the 17th principle, 20 years after …