I WANT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR that I am not even close to being an authority on Shri Atmananda Krishna Menon, the Direct Path that he left as a legacy, or, for that matter, much of anything else. Surprisingly enough, I am loathe to report that I am even an authority on my own experience, […]
Quiet. Still. I am reading Krishna Menon, Rupert Spira, and Francis Lucille. Central heat sings white noise. Cat warms my thighs; a lap-robe floats over my knees. It has been a noisy week internally. For this moment, mind is open; willing to listen rather than talk; to rest rather than run. Presence. Absence. Sun breaks […]
THIS IS A POST THAT’S LONG OVERDUE. I simply want to share my experience; that doesn’t make it a prescription for anyone else. I don’t have any idea what I am supposed to do until I’m in the middle of doing it, so I sure can’t know what’s right or wrong for anyone else. Yet a lot […]
LET ME SAY RIGHT AWAY that I’m mentally at work on a column on inquiry that I hope to have up in the next few days. It’s been a really interesting week in that regard and I want to share it. It needs a bit more gel-time, however, so I thought I’d pop this up, since […]
WELCOME TO THE RECENTLY RENOVATED DREAMTIME, which is now designated 2012. It is of course a wholly imaginary distinction, but this is the great thing about truth: it’s wholly inclusive. We can have our reality cake and enjoy the dream as well. The experience here is that sometimes I feel like I have one foot in […]
EVERY TIME I FIND MYSELF attempting to take a position, I see in my mind one of my mentors, Greg Goode, take up another side of it. That’s the end of that position. I wrote him about it today, wondering if this theoretically lofty “I don’t know” could in fact become a subtle position in itself. […]
CHRISTMAS 2011 IS NOW A STORY of past instead of a story of future. That’s absolutely fine with me. The present story is that I have not gained much if any weight, and I am not in debt over it. I was gifted some nice clothes so that this body can twit about in reasonable style, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 ignored, […]
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 […]
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