spiritual awakening and enlightenment in today’s world

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-ExupĂ©ry

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. —Bertrand Russell

Archive for February, 2006

Humor break

Sunday, February 26th, 2006 Posted in Humor | Comments Off

Originally posted at MovieJuice Thanks to Ryan Sharp for pointing out that the Christian humor site Lark News is publishing a new book, A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat. Check it out, and be sure to read the excerpt. Also, be ...

A new voice in Blogaria

Saturday, February 25th, 2006 Posted in Seen on the Web | Comments Off

My friend Zach Young has started a new spiritual blog recently, Monakhos. Why not stop by and welcome him to the blogosphere? Technorati Tags: blogs, blogosphere, spirituality, Zen, Christian mysticism

Emptiness, clarified

Monday, February 20th, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments Off

A friend of mine left a comment on my post on The Mystery of Emptiness and said that the term emptiness bothers her, and she'd like for me to clarify it. Well, how could I resist? In the past, I've ...

Something there is…

Sunday, February 19th, 2006 Posted in Peace and Justice | Comments Off

Something there is that doesn't love a wall. —Robert Burns The Wall. If there was a receipe for fueling the resentment that in turn fuels terrorism, this is it. I'm thinking of how enlightenment teachers emphasize that waking up is necessary for us ...

The Mystery of Emptiness

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments Off

The Mystery From a seed, which once didn't even exist, comes the redwood which massively does. From n o t h i n g comes EVERYTHING. This is the mystery, the source of all mysteries, the source of all. Does Emptiness scare you? Good! but go further. Fall in love with it. © jon zuck // ...

End of the Spear

Sunday, February 5th, 2006 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | Comments Off

End of the Spear isn't a masterpiece on a par with The Mission, but in spite of its low budget and naive manner, it is a very moving story of the power of love to conquer fear, hatred, and violence. It's ...

Lila made visible

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 Posted in Seen on the Web | Comments Off

Talk about synchronicity. I write a poem on Lila, the divine game in the human world, and today I discover a most creative video of it from a Godlike POV. It's a montage of video feeds from around the ...