Awakening is not the ultimate goal of spiritual seeking. Awakening is resolving the question of, “what am I?” Nothing more. The world of spirituality covers a lot of ground. Most of it has to do with “how to be” and not “what you are.” Getting better at expressing truth, embracing the world in compassion, manifesting [...]…
Awakening is (in many ways) a mechanical problem. What the message that this site is about is concerned with is dissolving the inherited lie of being a separate self. That is done by washing the lie in the truth of you. That exposure is facilitated by the intentional act of turning, and tuning your attention [...]…
The more I look into “self as reality” rather than “self as thing in a sea other things”, the more I see that there is no action which I originate. The Buddha spoke of four imponderables, four mysteries, that were simply not answerable by the mind and warned that anyone attempting to do so would [...]…
Came across a great article from last year over at the Huffington Post: 10 Spiritually Transmitted Diseases. It’s a fun little read, and a good follow up to my last post on Setting the Bar. I would add an 11th disease, which is a subset of number 9, The Chosen-People Complex. I call it the [...]…
Here’s another common mistake folks make when seeking Awakening. Setting a bar, a measure that they hold their awakening against. Often these bars are insanely high. Some go hand-in-hand with confusing sage-hood with celebrity, in other words assuming that your awakening must result in being as articulate and revered as the Buddha. Other standards include [...]…
Once you have decided that awakening to the truth of what you are is something you would like and get value from (and it is!), you will likely get to work at it. That’s not bad, but that is right where things can go seriously awry. We are conditioned to believe that in order to [...]…
Greetings! Another installment in the “What is awakening?” video series. In this one I go over What awakening is (and is not) Why you should want to awaken How to do it, the action you can take to awaken What I am trying to do on this site, is get as clear as possible on [...]…
More video fun in the “What is Awakening?” series. My favorite adage: “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Life has it’s ups and down, and part of the survival mechanism we come with is an aversion to damage and conditions which impact the continuing of life. That’s pain and it’s inevitable. Suffering is living in [...]…
Another installment in the Fundamental Mistakes series. This one is seen a lot in the spiritual realm in particular, but really in every other area of life as well. I am intimately familiar with it myself. The catch phrase here is, “Yeah, I got it.” Basically, it’s the assumption that you are capable of something, [...]…
More video fun in the “What is Awakening?” series. The tricky thing about awakening is that it is not tricky at all. It’s dead simple. What you wake up from is a lie about what you are. You wake up from the lie that you are a separate, independent entity, afloat in a reality that [...]…
