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Archive for the ‘Nonduality’ Category

Steve Pavlina on Nonduality

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Seen on the Web | 7 Comments »

Although its over an hour, this is worth listening to. Steve Pavlina uses the freedom of the podcast format to explain his idea of the "Law of Attraction" at length, and in the course of doing so, nonduality as well, ...

Nonduality and Healing

Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 8 Comments »

Steve Pavlina's excellent blog brought this story, The World's Most Unusual Therapist, to my attention. It's about a Hawaiian psychologist, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, who successfully treats criminally insane patients in the penitentiary, without seeing them. He uses a technique ...

Ashtavakra Gita

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 2 Comments »

In the "(ext)WisdomReading":http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WisdomReading group, we're beginning the Ashtavakra Gita, one of my favorite of the world's Scriptures despite the fact that it's relatively little-known. Here's a except from a recent post I made there: ... The challenge with ??Ashtavakra?? is probably in being ...

What you don’t want to admit to yourself

Friday, May 12th, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 8 Comments »

The stories you love, are all about you. The heroes you adore, are all you. That's why there is the resonance. It's a recognition, beyond words, beyond knowledge. Jung realized that all the characters in a dream are the dreamer, ...

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 ...

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 // ...

Lila

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments Off

Lila How skillfully I have hidden myself from me! Layers within layers, folds within folds, Easter eggs within Christmas stockings nested in hidden Jacks-in-the-box. So I enjoy unwrapping, playing: Hide and Seek, Cowboys and Indians (Bang! Bang! You're dead!), and Love. The three games I never tire of. I am eternal child. © ...

Parable of the Iceberg

Friday, January 27th, 2006 Posted in Nonduality, Seen on the Web, Spirituality | Comments Off

Here's a wonderful parable in Amigo,an online enlightenment magazine. Are you an iceberg? Do you want to become water? Get ready for some hard work! :-)

Alone

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 Posted in My Life, Nonduality, Spirituality | Comments Off

I've delayed posting for a bit... on one hand, it seems like I could write forever, on the other, that I have nothing to say. Yesterday, all morning long at work I felt like crying, until I had lunch with ...

The Suck

Monday, January 23rd, 2006 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality, Poetry, Spirituality | Comments Off

I may be an idiot for posting this. In spite of all my brave words, "The Wild Things of God," "Jedi Life in the Real World," the bottom line is I'm a fucking coward as attached to delusion, identification, and ...