Abide in the bliss of I AM and the fullness of truth will dawn.
Abide in the bliss of I AM and the fullness of truth will dawn.
Whenever desire or dissatisfaction shows up our first instinct is to try to get or change something. We’re trained to leap up and run after our impulses like show-dogs. Desire says “jump” and we say “how high?!” And since these thoughts and feelings and wants keep popping up, large and small, we’re endlessly running around,…
That anything exists at all, let alone is self-aware, is beyond statistical speculation, it’s miraculous in the truest sense. This is the true nature of reality and is what we rightly call Divine and Mystery.
At the heart of matter of being human is the problem of suffering. What are we to do with it, how do we contend with it? If suffering cannot be accounted for at our current level of understanding then we might ask, as a starting point, if we can at least *admit the possibility* that…
There are nominally two aspects to reality. The silent awareness and the changing relative content. In dualistic life, all that is recognised is the changing aspect of reality. But at some point the mind discovers and identifies itself as the source and ground of silent awareness, and the egoic, dualistic identity is transcended. When this…
The modern secular worldview is grounded in a purely materialistic conception of reality. It’s sentiments on various issues are predicated on the notion that we are merely finite bodies. And therefore the most important values are often comfort and safety. There is no sacred in the this view. No eternal, nothing beyond the senses. It’s…
We can think of the Garden of Eden story as being about a perceptual and conceptual shift that can be reversed any moment. If we’re chewing on that Forbidden Fruit then we’re all full of judgements: good, bad, right, wrong. It’s exhausting and life becomes work and misery. But if we just stop judging in…