Your Song
Last night, I saw the film August Rush and it reminded me of the questions – Do you hear the music? Are you listening? Our eyes perceive a rainbow of colors, but it’s a very …
Category: Spirit
Embodiment
Realization or Awakening is not the goal. This is an aspect of the process that’s worth focusing on a little more. In the usual cycle of growth, we have disintegration, growth, integration, and balance. In …
Why Do I Choose This?
Back on the What do you Want?, I shared Adyashanti’s quote “In the end, you will always do the thing you wanted to do most.” In The Good Story, I touch on how the world …
Curtains of Mind
Recently here, we’ve talked about the model of life as a movie theater with the observer as projector and the world as the screen. The senses perceive the liveliness and create an image in mind, …
The Soul’s Past
When I was reading When the Soul Awakens, they mentioned that past lives become remembered after soul awakening. I had not considered this before but it was true for me and a few others I …
Bodily History
At a recent event, a number of family members ended up together. An observation was made that sometimes, when my mother is annoyed with me, she calls me by my uncles name – her younger …
Tulku, the film
Today was the World Premier of Tulku, a film about the practice of recognizing a reborn Buddhist master. Sadly, I wasn’t able to see it, yet. But I thought the description of the film was …
Words Fail
There is a curious thing about writing about the journey. Like a trip to a foreign land, we may struggle to describe the experience at times. But then, at a certain point, words will simply …
All Life is in the Moment
At a certain point in our journey, we’ll begin to experience everything as being now. If we’ve had a very visual journey, we may experience time collapsing into the moment. The nodes of the mesh …
Messages of Passion
In the move to quiet the mind and release ourselves from the grip of emotion, there is the tendency for spirituality to turn off our passion. To see it as somehow unspiritual. This can be …
Fierce Light, the film
This evening I saw Fierce Light, the second in a trilogy by Canadian filmmaker Velcrow Ripper. The film is about spiritual activism, subtitled “When Spirit Meets Action“. Fierce light is what Gandhi called soul force …
Control Your Mind, Control Your Life, or not
When we first begin to become aware how powerful the mind is at creating our reality, we often will take the ego’s perspective. If I can control this mind, I will control my life, my …