Separation
An earlier article was entitled “Living the Question”. This current missive turns out to be more from the non-doer perspective, so to speak… In other words, there is no one living the question (no separate entity): you are “being lived”. By what? By an ocean of light, of love… by Life… by that which…
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Given that this is the last day of the calendar year, and a friend and I were discussing the notion of “eschatological” yesterday (how religions sometimes have that apocalyptic, “end times” element in them), I thought it would be appropriate and fun to reflect on the paradox of self-help and the direct path (the non-dual…
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This article is the second in a series about love and relationships (the first is here). True love is never rejected. If you come from the right place, it will find the path to the heart, because the place is comes from and the place it goes to is the same place. The shooter…
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A short dialogue about identity and practices. Hi Eric – I hope you’re doing well. I’m a 19 year old college student studying in [a city in the US]. I came upon your article on healthy ego development, and it resonated with me. I encountered Advaita Vedanta when I was 17, and I’m…
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For several years I was a leader involved in community issues a larger city, in an urban area. I had been asked and then elected to a position of leadership by a “board” (I did not seek it). This happened after I’d demonstrating a natural enthusiasm for what was going on in my neighborhood, and…
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Why are we told all the answers are in the silence, if such a direction is made of words which are not silence? Notice the paradox of listening to words to be directed to silence, of going to a teacher or a book to be told you are yourself: the consciousness in which the teacher…
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Just a short post to describe an experience – or attempt to. I would sum up the week’s seeing as: All I Have To Give Is Love Stated more precisely: All I have is love (to give) and it’s not even really mine, or something that can be given away per se, it’s what…
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“There appears to be a knot between the consciousness and the flesh. A knot that separates the consciousness from the flesh. This knot is called imagination. ” – Robert Adams “Our Beingness sets up a mind which imagines it’s a body” – Lester Levenson The Buddhists call it “false imagination”: the projection of a seeming objective…
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A response to a question from a reader. Question: I’ve been on this journey of awakening since coming across Eckhart Tolle many years ago. Where I am now, is I that I have had numerous glimpses of being awareness. I see that I am consciousness witnessing an illusion, and the illusion is made of…
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