Sanskrit – Dead or Alive?
When a language is no longer spoken natively by any culture, it is said to be a “dead” language. Some such languages become lost in a few generations, like some First Nations languages of North …
Category: Principles
The Solid World
One of the paradigms we’re really stuck on is this idea of a solid world. Even though physicists tell us otherwise, they too are stuck in a particle model, inventing particles even to move forces. …
The Hourglass Model
Recently, a model has come to mind to explain the evolution of our perspective of the way we are in the world. It relates closely to some common models used to explain meditation experiences. Picture …
Shankara’s 3 laws
Shankara’s 3 laws: 1st law: Brahman is real 2nd law: the world is not real (the half truth) 3rd law: Brahman is the world Thus, the world is real, but not the real we started …
Knowledge and Devotion
Love says, “I am everything.” Wisdom says, “I am nothing.” Between these two my life flows. — Nisargadatta “Jnana and bhakti, knowledge and devotion, understanding and surrender, inseeing and outpouring, mind and heart, cannot be …
Chopra Center Vancouver
One of the more interesting details about last nights talk by Deepak Chopra was that they’re opening the first branch of the Chopra Center in downtown Vancouver this winter. All of the things they’ll be …
The Seven Spiritual Laws
Many years ago, I read Deepak Chopra’s book “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success“. Last night at his talk in Vancouver, 2 different tables had little weekly reminder fold-out cards, a day for each law. …
On Deathlessness
And yet another email, this one coincidental. Dr. David Frawley wrote an article called “On Deathlessness“. It begins: The greatest fear that all living beings have is the fear of death. The fear of death …
The Great Death
Due to recent circumstances and posts, a friend of mine sent me a link to an Adyashanti talk from 2002 called The Great Death. While the title is a reference to awakening, much of the …
Memory Continues
Last month I spoke of the subtler values of Memory, what is called Smriti in Sanskrit. We could say consciousness is remembering itself through us. Reality is structured in the core intelligence of being. But …
Memory
I’d like to go a little more abstract for a moment. (laughs) I’ve spoken before about how consciousness is always shifting and adjusting. Tuning our awareness so we respond in the right way at the …
The Evolution of the I
What is this sense of self, I-ness? How does it evolve? For most people, their sense of I is this body-mind. I am this person with this name who has these thoughts and feelings and …