One of the biggest issues (it seems to me) that gums up the work for people’s pursuing awakening to what they really are is a confusion that stems, in my opinion, from the “what you are” vs the “how to be” distinction. It’s a combination of thinking that working on “how to be” will make [...]…
Let me just say at the get-go that I am very much anti-reductionsim of any sort. I do not believe that reality is simply a matter of interacting and inter-reacting “things.” I do believe that is what happens on the gross physical level, but I also believe that lot of what is going on is [...]…
Awakening changes the reference point you use to show up in the world and tell you story. While awakening has nothing to do with the “how to be” realm, it is natural that there could be shifts in how you move through that realm once you dissolve the false foundational belief about what you are [...]…
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 [...]…
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 [...]…
