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 […]

I AM WORKING OFF AND ON WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE RIGHT NOW, all of them in different stages of awakening to the obvious and self-evident truth of this What Is that they already are.  Theirconscious awareness runs the gamut from the first hint of a blush, to on-again-off-again-I-got-it-I-lost-it oscillation, and everywhere in between.  Their common current barrier to the Gateless […]

A DEAR FRIEND AND REGULAR AC READER, had a wonderful, truly authentic experience of Oneness this week.  That is Big Joy!  She wrote me about it, and you can’t write the way she wrote until you’ve seen what you really are.  You can write the same words and delude yourself if you want to, but you’ll never fool anyone […]

“THOSE WHO KNOW DO NOT SAY.  THOSE WHO SAY DO NOT KNOW.”  Like every relative statement about absolute spiritual truth, these two are both true and not true.  The first line of the Tao Te Ching, though it varies in different translations, is roughly, “The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.”  Nonetheless, […]

  I WANT TO CONCLUDE THIS SERIES, the most popular pieces I’ve ever posted, with a look at how Awakeness can directly function through a human being, without that person, or anyone else, being the wiser.  You may recall that I have named this a state of being “actively inhabited”.  It’s as good a label  as any, I […]

I REMEMBER LISTENING TO A KEN WILBER SERIES several years ago, I think it was The One Two Three of God, which helpfully classified the three types of mystics: Nature, Theistic, and Nondual.  Reality can be discovered through any of those three channels: nature, a personal God, or Nondual awareness.  However, because both the “software” and the “hardware” […]

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY WIFE, Betsy.  She is a wholly remarkable human being and Awakeness is consciously alive in her.  You can see it.  You can feel it.  You can hear it when she speaks; people are mesmerized by her voice.  Animals recognize it.  Even plants recognize it.  God is here, moving from room to room […]

  AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, for the last few weeks I’ve been doing online video meetings with my teacher, Scott Kiloby.  I’m a student/mentor, meaning that it’s very much his show, but I’m allowed to contribute if I behave.  I’m the sidekick who listens closely and then offers observations and suggestions.  The students seem to […]

IN THE LAST DIARY ENTRY I mentioned that I might have to return to field work, meaning traveling about to acquire inventory for my online bookstore.  I haven’t done much of that in the last 18 months, and while I wasn’t excited about the prospect, I was certainly surrendered to its necessity if it came down to doing it.  Let […]

A Very Short Course in Surrender I TALK ABOUT SURRENDER at every opportunity that Life affords me.   And as it so happens, Life has afforded me an awful lot of opportunity.  This body-mind has taken a lot of knocks.  Most of them started right here; they were initiated by me.  I never saw that, and for 47 […]

A FEW WEEKS BACK I MENTIONED that my wife, Betsy, and I have begun taking yoga again.  For the curious, I am utilizing yoga to enhance my waning physical condition and to balance out energy patterns. There is no spiritual seeking left here, other than the impersonal desire to be as clear an expression of the […]

LET’S START WITH THE TRUTH and slowly work our way through to the lies.  The dream, also known as conventional existence, or “the world”, is a three-legged stool of illusion.  It looks very stable.  But take away any one of those legs, and it collapses.  Those legs are: 1) Time 2) Space 3) Causality ALL THREE […]

  THERE IS A SANSKRIT PHRASE, tat tvam asi, which means, “Thou are That.”  I was Brahman—the Absolute—before I ever meditated for the first time, now some 30 years ago.  I was Brahman before I ever took a breath almost 59 years ago.  In Zen there is a koan, “What is your Original Face, the face you […]

  I TAKE AN ANTIDEPRESSANT.  I just restarted taking it yesterday after a two or three month hiatus.  I feel better, isn’t that nice? If that bit of information negates anything that’s said elsewhere on this site for you, then that’s 100% your business.  Think as you will; you’re going to anyway.  I take your […]

THIS IS THE CONCLUSION of a two-part essay that addresses, as Part I stated, “A phenomenon that arises in post-realization that I will call Second Movement.  That’s my label for the rubber band of ego snapping itself back into place after True Seeing, whether it was a glimpse or a more sustained experience.  Having witnessed the causeless, spontaneous, […]

The Nondual Diary: “How come I can’t stay THERE?” (Part I of II) WORDS ARE GOING TO FAIL US time and again today.  I’ll be moving back and forth from the relative to the Absolute views without warning, so just follow the best you can.  I don’t see any way around it.  To fill the language […]