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Locus of the Sacred
The inner temple. It may seem hard to believe that this is anything more than some sort of poetic or abstract notion, but I offer that it’s very far from such a thing. Today I will not talk about how to find or create an inner temple, you already have one, instead we will focus…
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Dream Life
Do you ever dream of outer space? Or a vast open field? The sea? Daydream or sleep dream? Sleep dream. In daydreams you can do so freely of course, but your sleep dreams are another matter all together. So does anyone dream of the outdoors when they sleep? Oh yes! All the time! Well, most…
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You Fear Dis-Integrity
You find many things horrifying, more than you acknowledge. Perhaps the first thing to clarify, you do not fear death, you do not find meaning in death beyond the purely cerebral level. We have no experience of it? That’s part of it. What you do fear is dis-integrity. Shall I back this up with science?…
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You Believe Things
It’s been said that we can’t solve a problem in the same state of mind we become aware of it in. Recent science is even backing this up. The way we normally think about things, we just practice and reinforce the problems that set us off in the first place. We welcome the vandals of…
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Difficult Truth
We dwell in a false holy, and this was used as a method of self preservation whenever a spiritual path sought to survive in the face of violent public opposition. They would erect a decoy temple that could be freely sacked so that their genuine sacred space would remain inviolate, but for those who understood,…
Category: Inner Temple
The first thing we seek and the one thing we seek to preserve above all else is our inner quiet, freedom from disturbance. On some level we all despise change, any kind of change for any reason.
If you let yourself dwell on the call to prayer, the call to meditation, to communion, it is a song. It is ultimately irresistible. You will come to it. It is what it seems to be, the call of the genuine sacred, but the principle of the sacred is beyond what you easily imagine it to be.