When Karma Ends
There is an experience that sometimes arises after awakening or Self realization – that the karma or obligatory experiences from our past have ended. That awakening totally roasts our mountains of karma and now we …
Category: Waking
Waking Down
In several of the awakening interviews on Buddha at the Gas Pump, they mention the role of Waking Down to Mutuality. Where their long practice of meditation brought them close to waking, but their process …
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Last fall, a public access TV show began in the US Midwest, out in the middle of the cornfields of Iowa. It’s an interview show with a diverse range of people who have had a …
One Being
Recently in another discussion forum, someone raised the question of the 2 selves. The unchanging inner Self and the changing personal self. This is a classic experience around Self Realization. The witness Self observing the …
Understanding God Realization
To explore God Realization in our culture, first you have to surmount our deeply embedded ideas about “God”. For one, they’ll be the initial do believe/ don’t believe/ don’t know. As if deity has something …
Healing the Animal
There’s an aspect of spiritual awakening that is not always talked about. The process of awakening is a movement to total integration. This means not only awakening to our higher spiritual selves but to our …
Who is Doing, Anyway?
Recently, I received the following question. The answer seemed worth sharing. Just read your post Wisdom Intention. Intention implies wanting and in turn doing. If this is true, who is wanting and doing? How does …
Enlightenment will make it Better
In a discussion in another forum a couple of weeks ago, the idea that Enlightenment will fix our broken selves came up. What you have to remember is that this business of “living up to …
Awakening the Body
We tend to think of enlightenment as an abstract future promise. A place where the transcendent peace we’ve experienced becomes an ongoing reality. Where we find an inner freedom. This place is known as Moksha …
What is Enlightenment?
Takuin recently responded to the question What is Enlightenment? on his blog. His answer is excellent. “Enlightenment is limitless expansion within a limited field.” “The limited field is this physical world we all live within. …
Layers and Wholeness
In the article intention, I observed the difference between pure intention arising out of wholeness and reactivity driven desires coming from conflict. This is a valid way of looking at it but in a follow-up …
Achieving Abundance
One of the things many people wish for in life is abundance. Having ones life needs, finances and livelihood well sufficient. Some people find abundance through simple consequence. What some call karma or past life …