Pay attention, lest you miss your own awakening. This is easy enough to do. It’s a long-standing habit—we’ve been missing it all along! Our awakening experience has long been unfolding in myriad ways, both subtle and bright. It happened as we watched ourselves grow up and traverse the various stages of life. Although our bodies, […]

In non-duality circles, one may hear that awakening is a purely random, accidental event: Because it is not the character who awakens, there is nothing the individual can do to cultivate or attain the awakened state. The truth is ever present, and it will simply manifest or not, independent of causes or conditions. But the […]

I have an analytical mind. It wants to know how things work, why they work, the logic behind the process. Understanding the how and why of things provides a sense of security and guidance in decisions and actions. But when searching for truth, it can take us only so far. Thought is a simulator of […]

At one time or another, we all have known or perhaps been that person who has fallen into the trap of living vicariously. In the relative world, this is not a healthy dynamic. Most commonly it happens with a parent through a child, to the detriment of both: The child feels an undue burden of […]

My ego desperately wants to be enlightened. I want to crow from the rooftops that I made it—I have arrived! I watch this need to be special, to reassure myself that all this searching has fulfilled my dreams of awakening: fame, adoration, a perfect life. But for the most part, I seem to have been […]