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. …
Category: Presence
Choose Silence
More on the theme of letting go. Choose silence, and love is apparent When we choose silence, we choose to give up the reasons not to love, which are the reasons for going to war, …
What’s Real?
Responses to a few questions on reality… What’s Real? When we answer questions about reality, we can look at it 2 ways. Firstly, there is reality that is unchanging, absolute, omnipresent silence. That which cannot …
Denise Hagan @ World Kindness Concert
In several posts here, I’ve mentioned the remarkable singer Denise Hagan. In November I saw her again, this time doing 2 numbers during this years World Kindness Concert. She did my favourite, Amazing Space and …
Experience and Belief
We tend to think of experience as superior to belief. But there’s a phrase that gives it away – Seeing is Believing. The mind creates concepts about the world based on what we’re told and …
Out of Bliss
Anandaddhyeva khalwimani bhutani jayante anandena jatani jivanti anandam prayanty abhisamwishanti Out of bliss these beings are born, In bliss they are sustained, And to bliss they go and merge again. — Taittiriya Upanishad 3.6.1 Why …
The Progression of the Observer
A few discussions lately have raised this process. People talk of the shift to the observer, but it goes far deeper than this. – no sense of separate observer – I am the body and/or …
Introducing Silence
This began from discussion in comments at Takuins blog – The End, the Beginning. Tom Stine raised the question of a silent post, were it any shorter. Lune then introduced the Silent post. I commented …
Perspectives on the Past
Over on The End of Evil, LiberatedSelf asked about past lives. The feedback that emerged is worth sharing, edited for this scenario. “I’m kind of interested (why wouldn’t the ego be?) in getting to know …
Guardians
I’ve always enjoyed a cartoon’s ability to capture the essence of a story, idea, or vision. Both word and picture have to be refined to an aphorism. What they call in Sanskrit a sutra, meaning …
Astonishing!
I am still regularly astonished with what happens. Many of us live in resistance to what shows up in our life. Ironically, we can be fighting what we want because it came in the wrong …