First, the Truth
don Miguel Ruiz asks us to find our truth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQeSJD1mBPM How do you find your truth? 1) Don’t believe me – but learn to listen. 2) Don’t believe yourself – but learn to listen. 3) …
Category: Truth
More God Realization
Understanding God Realization was largely a perspective piece. Where it fits into the scheme of things. But what of experience? How does it show up? This is not something anyone can describe as it is …
Understanding God Realization from a Western standpoint
Each major change in state of consciousness tends to have a lead up, an actual shift, then a process of integration. Disintegration, growth, integration, and balance. The same process happens with all of the smaller …
Selfless, Soulless Being
Recently, Tom Stine posted a quote on Buddha’s teachings. He did not state his own position on the quote and did not open comments. In discussion on prior posts there, we’ve discussed if this is …
The Blogger’s Debate
I’ve talked here before about the curiosity of the path. A blog like this talks about the process of awakening. As words are symbols for concepts, any such discussion or writing is inherently mental. While …
Concept Fatigue
If you’ve been exploring spiritual circles for any period of time, you may get a little tired of hearing words like “unity”, “enlightenment”, and “oneness”. Ideas like “awareness” and “existence”. Not to mention all the …
The Inner Guru
Again, over on Interconnected vs Oneness, comments expanded to cover a subject worth posting. First thing to understand is that each of us have a dominant mode of experience or sense. Some are visual, some …
The Instructions
There’s a saying that floats around spiritual circles. The instructions are on the outside of the box. The box is the ego, the mental construct we have formed. Our separate reality. We need people or …
Adyashanti comes to town
This week, Adyashanti was in town for 2 evening satsangs. Although I talk about him fairly often on this blog, he is one of the few such teachers that I’ve not actually met. At one …
The Goal of Enlightenment
For many years, my top goal was enlightenment. Until I had kids, it trumped all aces, even career. And then one day, I saw that there was no such thing as the enlightenment I had …
Questions
Sometimes, what is more important than answers is questions. Answers will take you into the mind. Questions can take you past the mind. Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Am I? Who …
What Changes?
When we look around us, it’s not hard to notice that everything changes. People come and go. That nice forest is now condos. Mountains slowly crumble into the sea. But what is it that’s changing? …