Behaviour – Before and After Enlightenment
A friend of mine raised an interesting point they’d heard in a talk. I thought it worth exploring as there’s a lot of nonsense out there about “enlightened behaviour” and such. When you wake up …
Category: Waking
The Kingdom of God
“Someone who does not take a trip to the Kingdom of God (Transcendental Consciousness or samadhi), he remains searching for it – all pursuits, this and this, and greater pursuits. But unless totality is fathomed …
Awake – The Story of Yogananda
Last month, I attempted to see the film Awake – The Story of Yogananda but the show turned out to have been sold out for 2 weeks. Happily, they brought it back for a few …
The Cosmic Story
I am inviting you, just as Papaji invited me, to stop telling the story. That is very different from making the story wrong. It is simply “Stop telling it.” Then there is an invitation to …
Consciousness and the Brain
As part of a Stanford course called Hacking Consciousness, Dr. Fred Travis gave a talk on brain physiology and development, neural plasticity, and the way the brain is changed by experiencing pure consciousness. He then …
Self Sufficiency
Eckhart Tolle speaks of the pain body, what might be called our blob of unresolved experiences or incomplete emotions or karma. With the dawning of Cosmic Consciousness, we lose our attachment to a me and …
Zero
Recently, I saw a DVD talk by Lorne Hoff called Zero. Part of the talk was a kind of countdown of the stages: 3 – dimensions of space, the field of multiplicity in typical waking …
What is Parabrahman?
In a recent correspondence, a question came up about Parabrahman, something I briefly mentioned at the bottom of The Stages chart. The term Brahman is used to mean several things. Some refer to the experience …
The Stages of Unity
In an online discussion, the subject of the stages of Unity came up. I thought I’d share the summary here, edited for context. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi compared the 10 mandalas (books) of the Rig Veda …
The Fear of Love
At a talk today, the minister Bruce Sanguin mentioned how the ego defends against love. Love requires surrender which the ego abhors. It has to consent to let it be. While the radio may be …
Shankara – Before and After
Adi Shankara was a renowned Indian sage who consolidated Advaita Vedanta or non-dualism. He lived from roughly 788 to 820, travelling throughout India and re-establishing non-dualism and the value of monasticism. He wrote extensive commentary …
On Bliss
I’ve spoken here before about how Life is literally Bliss – the very flow of life itself is profoundly blissful if we’re open to that. The Upanishads tell us we’re born of bliss. I’ve also …