Beyond Impossibility
Monday, March 15th, 2010 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | No Comments »Living in a world of "conditioned existence" as Buddhists say, is living in a world of possibilities, and impossibilities. Freedom lies beyond impossibility. All the Teachers know it. Hence the koans: What is the sound of one hand? How does one pinch smoke? What did you ...
Seeds
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 Posted in Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | 7 Comments »The mightiest redwood grew from a small seed in a cone, and that, in turn, sprang from a seed from a cone from another redwood, and so on. For generations, centuries, millennia. Every seed stores not only the raw potential of ...
Thomas Merton Square
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Nonduality, Seen on the Web, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »The Louisville Metro Council last month named the intersection of 4th and Muhommad Ali Blvd. "Thomas Merton Square," in honor of Fr. Thomas Merton's epiphany. To my knowledge, this is the only occasion of any government recognizing an event related ...
I awoke this morning
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Poetry | 7 Comments »I awoke this morning a poem flowing out of me taking me from dreamland to morning light An acknowledgement of all the Shadows and the rightness of all the things I hide A poem that wouldn't end because everything is part of it A poem I couldn't ...
What are you looking here for?
Thursday, March 20th, 2008 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 1 Comment »Julie has said all that needs to be said.
A subtle lesson
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality | 9 Comments »Sometimes the difficulty of blogging is that what seems blog-worthy is so subtle, it's very difficult to express. That's what's been going on with me, recently. Nothing big, dramatic, or exciting. Subtle things. For instance, I had an experience recently with ...
Exotheism
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 19 Comments »I recently got a call from an old friend whom I hadn't heard from in ages. He and I were part of the same radical Pentecostal campus fellowship a couple of decades ago, but I got a sense that his ...
Hofstadter and this last week
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 7 Comments »This week has been good. To explain it, I'm going to have to start with my college days. During my undergrad years in El Paso, I was in an extremely conservative congregation. My desire to know God had been subverted, ...
The Other Side
Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in Humor, Nonduality, Spirituality | 11 Comments »Found at Non-duality Cartoons, from a link by Pete.
Steve Pavlina on the Law of Attraction
Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 6 Comments »The "Law of Attraction" is definitely buzzing around the memosphere now. The movie and book The Secret deal with the idea, although rather superficially, almost conveying the idea of magical wish fulfullment. That approach has been roundly and properly criticized, ...
