Category: Spiritual

Sitting in my chair and looking out the window, the light over the valley is so beautiful that I want to grasp it, hold it, make it last. But staying open and ungrasping to fleeting beauty is an invitation to the Way. Even so, perhaps it's inevitable to feel the yearning wistfulness for it all.… Continue reading Sitting in my chair and looking out the window… →

I don't like cynicism. It gets over-used. It may be that sometimes its target is justified. But it rapidly becomes a blanket philosophy for life. An easy cop-out from sincerity and vulnerability. And then its just like adding poison to every meal. It's much harder but more rewarding to try to see the best in… Continue reading I don’t like cynicism… →

The secret is in how we 'handle' the moment. More to the point, it's about WHO and WHAT is handling the moment. Because if there's some second-guessing egoic mind trying to sort out good from bad, wanted from unwanted in every moment, then life is going to be experienced as a real pain in the… Continue reading The secret is in how we ‘handle’ the moment… →

Life -- at once a terrifying prospect and a wondrous gift.

I was never really grateful before. Not really. I took too much for granted on one hand, and on the other I was focused on what I didn’t have, what I wanted. There’s not much room for gratitude in that way of thinking. It was only after I awakened that real gratitude came online for… Continue reading I was never really grateful before… →

Can the ego ever consent to its own destruction? Is there ever informed consent for awakening? Perhaps not Because the grasping ego is like a victim of Stockholm Syndrome Conditioned into loving its own captivity It's a false consciousness That needs rescuing Liberating But it's only the true consciousness that can do this Only awareness… Continue reading Can the ego ever consent to its own destruction… →

The misty dreamlike haze of reality Only mind makes it seem solid So what is real? What's the nature of actuality? Just so we know what we're talking about Because a dream Is a real dream It's just not the thing it seems to present The world isn't real It's just what we call real… Continue reading The misty dreamlike haze of reality… →

What is human nature in relation to spiritual nature? Is our spiritual nature in fact the fulfilment of our human nature? Isn't that what the saints and sages have been telling us all this time? That we have an innate divine potential that represents the fruition of our humanity. So for all our monstrous capacities:… Continue reading What is human nature in relation to spiritual nature… →

While I'm here I might as well be drunk on love.