Month: July 2008

  • Life Direction

    Life Direction

    Life direction seems to be a growing concern, and it seems conventional values exasperate the situation rather than help it. Do you agree? The internet has blessed us with information and cursed us with better informed opposing opinions. Making the struggle the same, but more worldly. But the internet has given us too much information, with…

  • Direction and Individuality

    Direction and Individuality

    People mistake consciousness for individuality. There is a transcendent and encompassing consciousness. Our ancestors knew of it. Spirits of place. There is also a natural drive to harmony, to supporting the group. Order and disorder balance where there is oneness with the greater consciousness. We see Gaia consciousness as really just regulating simple creatures. What…

  • Harmony

    Harmony

    The future is an assumption of linear advancement. It is a global advancement. Future is modeled thinking. Time flows in waves as does space. “Global” is in the geometric sense. Consider a wave pattern, the preponderance of circles. The diagram of the golden mean and how it manifests, but you leave a legacy. The energy…

  • Truth in Paradox

    Truth in Paradox

    What can be said about paradox? Literally everything. That is the essence of paradox. It is why seeking one truth, proclaiming there to be only one right path… Well, it just never really works. There have been atheists who are more altruistic than the more religious types. Very materialist types that espouse a spiritual paradigm…

  • The Attachments

    The Attachments

    What are the big attachments? Money is one and many find that no amount of money is enough. This is supposedly a good thing, but they make themselves miserable in the pursuit of money. Money isn’t evil but attachment to it is. The same is true of knowledge. Learning is a good thing, but there…

  • Spiritual Practice

    Spiritual Practice

    One paradox is that expectations are an interference with genuine practice, like meditation. One quote is, “A true practitioner has an absence of expectation and doubt.” Lama Dodjum Dorjee. So we have this paradox. We are attempting to do something difficult, bring some clarity to the overactive mind, but we need to have that intention…

  • Dogma

    Dogma

    In The Egyptian Book of the Dead, they speak of death as a journey. One of the signs on that path is a mirror. The path is a mirror. You grow in the way you are, not in the way you are told you are. Many dogmas stunt people, trap them. This is regrettable, but they…

  • Balance

    Balance

    Balance, the middle way, we hope to list toward it. At times, it seems that we do not. Often because we fear we are wrong. Like fumbling for a needed object in the dark, we go too far one way or too far another and we think it’s all very hard. We really make it…

  • Experience of Passion

    Experience of Passion

    The subject is passion including the much reviled “passions”. They usually speak of them in right hand and left hand paths. One school of thought is that passions are only stumbling blocks preventing peace. The teachings of the right hand path are very popular, and you can get material written on it at any book store…

  • Duty and Love

    Duty and Love

    We do have a duty and the motive is love. Interestingly, love is not a passion. It transcends those dynamics. It is a principle that cannot be confined to the inner vortex of passions. Duty. If you understand the word, “dharma” is closer. It is a way, not a single force, but the encompassing rule…

  • Why Deny Passion?

    Why Deny Passion?

    Thinking gets you where you are, and often gets you stuck and keeps you there. Do your passions arise from thinking? Can you be angry and out of control and be aware that you are angry and out of control? If you are truly aware, then are you out of control? We are alive first,…

  • What is Death?

    What is Death?

    No one goes anywhere. There isn’t any need. It’s merely a change of state. A parallel existence, if you want to use the scientific paradigm. There is no such thing as loss. Sometimes, the way someone looses this form entails suffering. It can happen prematurely, and this isn’t good when it does, but there is…

  • Life’s Roller Coaster

    Life’s Roller Coaster

    With any facet of life, in the light of awareness there is a mirror image. For every truth, an equal and opposite truth. We often revile the negative as destructive. We say that is the opposite of what we want, when in fact it’s a mirror image of the thing desired. This is why attachment…