A Conversation With Maggie Gilewicz

ByMartyn 2021-12-082024-09-13

I recently sat down for a cup of virtual coffee with the delightful Maggie Gilewicz, PhD for her ORDINARY PEOPLE, ORDINARY AWAKENINGS podcast. We talked for a couple of hours about my (long) spiritual journey, both before and after awakening, and discussed some of the misconceptions and challenges facing the spiritual seeker and awakened being alike. Hope you enjoy.

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ByMartyn 2020-04-252024-09-11

Is our conscience merely conditioning or is it a hotline to our divinity? Do we follow where it leads? Do we trust it? Is it our lack of trust that makes us suffer? If we trusted every move we make as right and correct, even divinely ordained, or at the very least inevitable, would we…

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In meditation and in life, notice when you’re hooked and return to the present moment. Keep doing that and after a while the notice doesn’t require a return. Just noticing is enough. The consistent and natural presence of awareness to the hookedness allows it just release and disappear back from whence it came. What I’m…

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May You Live in Interesting Times
ByMartyn 2019-04-232024-09-10

When the awakened view dawns it becomes apparent that everything we experience points to it, and always did. It’s the recognition that each moment is a Dharma Gate, the opportunity to realize the nature of what-is and it becomes fascinating and fun to see how the consideration of any given domain or field of knowledge…

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Enlightened or Not Enlightened
ByMartyn 2020-12-102024-09-11

Enlightened or not enlightened, it’s the liberation that counts not some notion of attainment. Is enlightenment about knowing something? Or is it what’s left when the knowing is gone? I wrote once that enlightenment isn’t anything, but delusion is. It’s a matter of perspective. Where do you stand? And just because the majority view of…

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Untitled Thoughts #8
ByMartyn 2018-09-182024-09-10

The ego constricts around a more-or-less fixed mode of being. So when the ego is transcended and the constrictions are released, then the manifest being reorients to a more natural, unconstrained mode. And we don’t have any real idea what that might look like. During the ego’s reign fundamental embodied modes of intelligence may well…

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