The Ego-Mind Is Driven by Fear

The ego-mind is driven by fear, it desperately needs something to hold onto in the ocean of uncertainty that is life.

Articles

Let It In, Let It All In

ByMartyn 2020-12-022024-09-11

Let it in, let it all in. Let in your regret. All the feelings around that, let them in. All the shoulds and shouldn’ts about it, let them in. All the shame and the doubt, let it all in. The discomfort, let it in. Your reactions, the plans and strategies, let it in. Let it…

Articles

Awakened Mind Has No Prescriptions

ByMartyn 2020-11-252024-09-11

Awakened mind has no prescriptions, only descriptions. But since the world at large is dualistic, we have to translate much of what we hear into non-personal terms. So doing becomes happening. And moral or spiritual injunctions become the recognition and description of our nature and tendencies rather than actions we take as autonomous individuals.

Shorts & Quotes

The Usurper

ByMartyn 2024-04-212024-09-13

The mind, it just makes up a bunch of questions to bother itself with. Questions that it demands answers to before it will allow itself to rest. Which of course is never. The mind just endlessly justifies its own existence, its own primacy. But maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on the mind. It’s doing…

Creativity & Writing

Some Thoughts on the Creative Calling

ByMartyn 2024-04-042024-09-11

We’re called to face our fears and act according to our intuitive inspiration. This is the calling. And a true calling won’t let us off the hook. It gets all entangled with our conscience. Not heeding it will stop us sleeping at night, it’ll fill our souls with guilt and doubt and anxiety, it’ll nag…