All living systems crave homeostasis, the state where all systems are in balance. Note what happens in a problem situation: "Lack of awareness of any need...
If you were to make a brutally honest evaluation of the skills and resources it will take to reach your goals, and subtract from that total the skills and...
This natural process of maturation can be interrupted by conflicts early in life, and until those conflicts are resolved, they remain fractured. Much therapy...
If you want to become an adult, then, there are doubtless many roads.but one would definitely involve taking responsibility for all three aspects of your life....
Nicely said. :) ... to sense how to maintain that internal, "spiritual" balance. Seek a physical discipline (yoga, martial arts, etc.), something you can push...
Agreed... Hello: does anybody know where can be a place where to practice Hatha Yoga in Orange County ( moderate cost?) Appreciated!!!! thanks Aaron...
Had a long conversation with Mushtaq yesterday about definitions. He is concerned that my use of the term "Enlightenment" carries with it certain baggage that...
I know I've talked about witnessing awareness persisting through waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. But the Witness is fully available in any state, including...
I awaken between three and five, meditate for one or two hours, go straight to my desk and work till one or two P.M. The type of meditation I do varies, but...
Resting as the formless Witness brings both a radical liberation and a compelling duty: liberation, in that you are free from the bondage to the world of...
Sitting here on the porch, watching the sun go down. Except there is no watcher, just the sun, setting, setting. From purest Emptiness, brilliant clarity...
I had been meditating fairly intensely for around twenty years when I came across that line from Ramana. I had studied Zen with Katagiri and Maezumi; Vajrayana...
With the awakening of constant consciousness, you become something of a divine schizophrenic, in the popular sense of "split-minded," because you have access...
What would motivate you if you saw everything as the dream of your own highest Self? What would actually move you in this playful dream world? Everything in...
It's taken almost a week for any sort of meditative awareness to return, including lucid dreaming. The entire time I was in New York I lost all access to pure...
Since the ego exists mostly in the gross state, with a few remnants in the subtle, then once you identify with constant consciousness-or that which exists in...
Aldous Huxley, of course, wrote a famous book, The Perennial Philosophy, which is about the universal core of the world's great wisdom traditions. Huston...
Well, unshakable with further practice. I'm always curious what will interrupt this nondual current, what will obscure or disrupt constant consciousness, what...
When meditators first start developing (or rather, noticing) this constant consciousness, they tend to go through a type of split-mind awareness. On the one...
As you persist in noticing (and relaxing into) the choiceless awareness of what is, then this consciousness will begin to extend from the waking state into the...
A SPIRITUALITY THAT TRANSFORMS Hal Blacker, the editor of What Is Enlightenment?, has described the topic of this issue of the magazine in the following way: ...
There are several different ways that we can state these two important functions of religion. The first function-that of creating meaning for the self-is a...
Now, although I have obviously been favoring transformation and belittling translation, the fact is that, on the whole, both of these functions are incredibly...
Where translative religion offers legitimacy, transformative religion offers authenticity. For those few individuals who are ready-that is, sick with the...
WHO ACTUALLY WANTS TO TRANSFORM? It is a fairly common belief that the East is simply awash in transformative and authentic spirituality, but that the...
Second, even though you and I might deeply believe that the most important function we can perform is to offer authentic transformative spirituality, the fact...
Exactly the same thing happened with Adi Da, another influential (and equally controversial) adept (although this time, American-born). He originally taught...
WISDOM AND COMPASSION But isn't this view of mine terribly elitist? Good heavens, I hope so. When you go to a basketball game, do you want to see me or Michael...
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