IF THIS POSTING HITS CLOSE TO HOME, it may not be entirely comfortable. But if that’s the case, then it may be particularly valuable. It is the product of my own experience. I’ve directly fielded the title question several times and several times indirectly, so it makes sense to address it publicly. The first thing […]
I HAD AN EMAIL EXCHANGE with my dear friend Tammy out in Portland yesterday, and then a phone call from another kindred soul, Charlie, who also lives in Portland. Questions and comments that arose in those visits have led me to directly address the raison d’être of both Awakening Clarity and Nonduality itself: Self-realization. Amazingly […]
Reality on Rye I met my friend Larry for lunch at a deli today. We’d never met in person, but Larry is a regular follower of Awakening Clarity. He consistently leaves comments and sends me personal emails. We’ve gone back and forth quite a bit. He happens to live in a town near to […]
I noticed this morning that I was beginning to believe that my internal descriptions about life (otherwise known as ungrounded opinions) were actually representations of life. I noticed because my dearest friend, suffering, came to visit. This may sound unpleasant, and it is at first, but whenever suffering drops by, it’s also the opportunity to […]
The Nondual Diary: Mountains and Valleys Diary Day 2 Once or twice a year I get to surrender to pain in my abdomen. It’s quite a treat. I think it’s something akin to a ghost that’s left over from my heavy drinking days. It used to haunt me more often and more viciously, but over […]
I’m a whole day early with the new post, and the new Awakening Clarity. That in itself is a fine Sign. This new approach to Awakening Clarity is chiefly in reaction to this website. I sat down several days ago and did Byron Katie’s The Work on it, on how I saw the blog itself, and how I […]
Housekeeping Notes: First, let me welcome Austria as the newest country to visit Awakening Clarity. Namaste. Second, I want to announce that beginning tomorrow we will open both a new series, and a new typeof series. We will do it until we don’t, and it will be called The Nondual Diary. I hope […]
Housekeeping Notes: I’m pleased to see more activity from Germany. Welcome. We’ll continue with our Pick a World series in the next few days, but this arose today, so here it is. On Surrender Think of Big Mind—there is just a single mind, of course—as a glass of river […]
Housekeeping Notes: I would like to welcome Sweden as the newest country to visit Awakening Clarity. In that same geographic area, I see repeat activity from Finland. There has been a flurry of interest from the United Kingdom this week as well. That may be because my teacher has been […]
Houskeeping Notes: Let me welcome Ukraine and Indonesia to the growing list of countries visiting the website. They join Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Malaysia and the United Kingdom. It’s quite rewarding to be able to transport this teaching beyond the borders of the state of South Carolina, USA, and into […]
We are taking a short break from our Pick a World series of articles. I’ll finish that up soon, I promise. But this is fresh, and delivering freshness is what the Internet is best at. I have just spent the afternoon with a young woman I […]
Housekeeping Notes: Let me welcome our new members, our friends who simply visit, and also those folks who are receiving the main posts via email, but have not joined the site. Not everyone’s picture shows up on the masthead, but you may be sure that everyone is deeply valued in […]
Housekeeping Notes: Let me welcome Bulgaria and Finland to our growing group! Welcome to clarity, my friends. We will continue straight away with Part II in our look at the problems inherent in confusing the relative and the Absolute “worlds”. This confusion has been at the root of a lot of bloodshed and torture […]
Housekeeping Notes: Let me offer warm thanks to my friend, Richard Lang, of Headless.org for the lovely note yesterday. Richard and I have been writing each other for a year, and as one of my long-distance teachers, he’s helped stabilize conscious awareness here. He is also a real gentleman. His site is almost certainly […]
I want to thank the gods and magicians of the Internet for everything they do to carry these words about and abroad. I bow to Google, Microsoft, Time Warner, and South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, to name just a few. I bow to Wall Street and Washington. I bow to my teacher. I bow […]
Before I continue Momma’s Wren’s story, let me do a little housekeeping. Many genuine thanks to James Braha and Peter Dziuban for sending me such encouraging emails about Awakening Clarity yesterday and today. They’re fine teachers, fine writers and just plain nicepeople. Between James, Peter, Scott Kiloby and Jerry Katz, I’m getting some “uber-peer” review […]
In an effort to help keep all of us sane–and a roof over my head–I am going to break up longer posts from now on. Unless I don’t. Our front porch has four hanging baskets on it. Within one of them, amid the geraniums, the dusty miller, and the flowing vine whose name […]
Welcome to our new members and other friends. I’ve had a whole lot of emails in the past couple of days, and I know people are not only watching from “within”, so to speak, but also anonymously, from the sidelines. However you are joining us, you are most welcome. My wish is to be of […]
“One of the prices of being struck sane is that we can expect precious little agreement from the world. This is the case of the drunkard attempting sobriety, and it is also the case of the mystic who steps aside from the rush toward better dreaming and into actual Clarity. In both cases the sacrifice is […]
Hello and welcome. I’m glad we found our way here, to this very first post of Awakening Clarity. With so many things screaming for our attention, we might wonder what the odds were that we would meet here? They seem completely infinitesimal, do they not? Nonetheless, I suggest they were 100%. When there is just […]