IT IS CHRISTMAS EVE. It’s late, and absolutely silent, but for the sound of the heater. Betsy is asleep. Henry, Dickens, and Gus are all asleep. I am up, but I am not listening for Santa Claus. I am just listening, without object or objective. I think I’ll write a quick post. I REMEMBER THIS […]
GIVEN THAT CHRISTMAS IS JUST DAYS AWAY, and that I sell antiquarian and technical books, you might imagine that my business would be dead about now. You’d be right. It may end up being the slowest month in the history of the company, which is going on nine years. Those are facts. There isn’t anything in […]
WE HAVE THREE HANGING BASKETS of bright, yellow, Trailing Pansies on our front porch. It’s a new plant to us, a fine blend between the standard, perky Pansy, and its more delicate, smaller-blossomed, vine-bred cousin, the Viola, which is often called a Johnny Jump-Up. They are both lovely plants, and this hybrid is a grand new […]
IT IS COOL THIS EARLY AFTERNOON, in the low fifties, with just a bit of breeze; mild for December, even in South Carolina. The sky is a true azure blue, and there is not a single cloud to break the color. I’ve just been out running squirrels off the bird feeder, which is a hopeless […]
I AM SURPRISED TO FIND myself writing a post for today, which is Saturday, instead of for tomorrow. This is a clear sign that Awakening Clarity is once again morphing. Let me see if I can figure out what’s going on so that I can share it with you. I DIDN’T START THIS BLOG, and I neither write […]
SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS ARE TYPICALLY LAYERED. For example, sacred literature, whether it was written a thousand years ago, or the day before yesterday, can only reveal to us what we’re already prepared to see. There is a wealth of terrific information, and a ton of fabulous pointers in plain sight every day. We can’t see them until […]
SO WHICH IS IT? Do we have free will, or are our lives driven only by destiny? Or is it some of both? Most often it feels like some from this pile and some from that pile, does it not? Even the degreeof free will or destiny that we seem to experience varies from situation to […]
HUMAN BEINGS ARE ATTRACTED TO STILLNESS. We are pulled toward spaciousness; we are drawn to silence. We will travel great distances to find an external set of conditions that present these things. Monument Valley in Arizona comes to mind as a sterling example of all three. Of course there are many such places in mountain […]
1. On Passion, Intention, and Hitting the Mark Completely To hit the mark completely means you have no new nest in which to settle. ~ Dogen NISARGADATTA SAID THAT THE ONE THING required to reach enlightenment is earnestness. It’s quoted a lot. It’s probably referred to so often because it’s a plain-as-day truth that is overwhelmingly […]
NOW THAT I’VE GOT YOUR ATTENTION, I’ll be spending the rest of this column trying to write my way out of the hole I just dug with this post’s title and the accompanying photo. Still, there’s nothing like a little heresy to stir the pot and get things going. Let’s have at it. WHAT I’M PRIMARILY […]
SO, WE HAVE COVERED REBIRTH, which is happening in every moment, not at some time in the future. We have taken a close look at the one-shot, Wabi-sabi body, which is here today, and gone forever at death. So where do karma, continuums, and DNA fit in? Logic would tell us that if the personality is […]
YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW DAUNTING it is to see a title like the one above spill out onto the page in front of you, with the blank page expecting illuminating action to now take through these fingertips. Thank God I don’t have to write this post; I’m pretty sure I can type it. Let me take […]
THE LAST AC POST, as you undoubtedly noticed, was almost all background and set-up. It brought our attention to attention itself. It was to drive home the keen understanding that we have a finite amount of attention at our disposal, and that the “mystical math” that we’re going to need a great deal of it if we’re going […]
Housekeeping Notes: I began this blog at the end of July with the same number of readers every new blog starts out with: none. It now appears that there is the better part of 200 of you dropping by regularly, and Awakening Clarity has reached into 44 countries. That seems like something of a miracle […]
The Nondual Diary: Everything Is Important, Part II (Conclusion) THE POINT OF THE BACKWARD-LOOKING examples of struggle that I used in Part I is simply to strongly make note that truth is not always easy or pretty, it’s often not what we want to see, but it’s always available. We have to want the truth more than we want the […]
The Nondual Diary: Everything Is Important, Part I Housekeeping Notes: IN THE FORTY-SEVEN ESSAYS that I have written in the three months since the inception ofAwakening Clarity, I’ve posted something over sixty thousand words in the main posts alone. That is more material than is contained in the average book on Nonduality. So we now have a […]
I SPEND A LOT OF TIME WRITING AND TALKING to people about waking up; about the true nature of reality. Other than some splendid down time with my wife, Betsy, and our three Beasts Without Value, whom we both adore, I am […]
Where we left off: [So, on we go with the show, only now, for a while here, it’ll be just as it really occurred, I’m going to be playing both sides, just as I did while Vince sat in my living room drinking it all in. From here to almost the end of Part II, […]
ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF INQUIRY I’ve used in helping a person begin to realize they’re not a person is with a slight turn of the traditional Advaita question of inquiry, “Who am I?” Instead of asking you to use that inquiry on yourself, I facilitate, move into storytelling, and together we inquire together about, “Where are you?” […]
The Nondual Diary: Lunch on the Wild Side I HAD LUNCH ON THURSDAY with my friend and regular AC Reader, Larry Coble. This was our second lunch together and the atmosphere was instantly warm and spiritually intimate. I guess that Larry and I sat on a cloud sometime before we were born and decided that this […]
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