Possession
It’s a revealing thing that we refer to our belongings as “possessions”. (even “belongings” is revealing) The meaning is what we possess but in many ways, it is they who possess us. The stuff we …
Category: Principles
The Truth
Back on Your Power of Command, I mentioned the importance of telling the truth. “…not telling the truth diffuses our power of command.“ Similarly, from DON Miguel Ruiz, in the very first Agreement of The …
Refined Brahman
Writing about Brahman in an intelligible way is a little fraught. It’s so beyond most peoples frame of reference that words can be entirely misleading. How do you describe something that is nothing, that is …
Dr. Vasant Lad film
Dr. Vasant Lad is an Ayurvedic doctor and educator who founded the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico. He brought Ayurveda to the west. His introductory book I mention on the Books tab above was my …
Healing Everything – Part 3 of 3
< Part 2 – Prep – More Specific Issues Much of the above helps us improve the general tone of our lives but some knots or blocks are more pernicious. After our practice, we step …
Healing Everything – Part 2 of 3
< Part 1 – Intro – Preparation As long as a lot of this is unconscious, we’re not going to understand the mechanics and so can’t act directly on them. We’ll just continue to react …
Healing Everything – Part 1 of 3
Part 1 – Intro Everything can be healed, if we know the actual cause and understand it’s mechanics. However, that cause may be masked under layers of other unresolved debris making it very difficult to …
Kundalini is Not Causal
In articles here I’ve discussed the role of kundalini Shakti in the awakening process. However, it’s important to understand that kundalini does not cause an awakening. An awakening takes place when Self recognizes itself through …
The Chakras – Universal and Personal
Most artist’s renditions of the chakras are a nice rainbow of 7 colours in a tidy row. But this is a very simplistic portrayal of our energetic underpinnings. For one thing, the chakras are typically …
Layers of Observing
When we speak of awakening as the Self waking up to Itself by observing itself in this apparent form, it may be useful to unpack what this is to reduce some confusion. Some experiences can …
What is Ignorance?
Back on the End of Suffering, I quoted the Yoga Sutra on ignorance. 2v5: Ignorance is perceiving the non-eternal as eternal, the impure as pure, suffering as happiness, and the non-Self as the Self. The …
Fullness or Emptiness
In the literature, you hear descriptions by sages of the emptiness of existence or the fullness of being. These seem contradictory but actually describe the same thing, typically at different stages of depth and clarity. …