Spirituality for Living

Observation is really a keystone of spirituality as well as science. The capability we call observation runs deeper than the sense. As a matter of fact, there are whole scientific and military disciplines focused on “training” observation even though our senses work. The eastern teachings pointed out that senses are distracting and meditation is in [...]

About changing essential nature… I can turn water into vapour. It’s in waters nature to become vapour. You interact with it but you don’t change its nature. The sun makes it vapour also. It is a part of what we consider “unseen” but it is very much the essence, it’s spirit.
The sun also turns oceans [...]

Conditioning is a terrible thing to overcome and in identifying it we resist it. It was all we were taught to do… Not identifying the source, that primal world that we still come from. We didn’t arise by accident. No body does. Accidents are human but even that is not defining. Accidents are human but [...]

I find that just as in physics resistance plays a big part in spirituality as well. What we resist isn’t removed by our resistance and much of orthodox religious teaching seems to extol resistance, denial, asceticism. I suppose they can create a supportive context for spiritual growth but these days in most cultures there really [...]