Today, the world premiere of the free film Awareness: A Contemplation with Peter Fenner was released. Peter Fenner is a well-regarded nondual teacher and the author of Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Awareness, and his 78-minute documentary with filmmaker Michael Bailey is well worth watching. Told largely through Peter’s words, the movie is experiential and beautifully points to the ultimate. […]
Mike Stiler is an artist and Zen teacher in Maine. His website is ridingtheox.com.
This post is authored by a Zen teacher and artist in Maine, Mike Stiler. I had occasion to spend some one-on-one time with him several years ago. He worked with Toni Packer, and is a friend of my friend, Joan Tollifson. He’s clear. Tulips
This was painted by my friend and student, Bob Turano, who lives in Los Angeles. He’s an awakened being, and I can certainly feel that in this work. There are lots of ways to experience truth, and visual art is a key one. (Beautiful, Bob. Thanks for letting me run this.)
On a hot summer day in the very early 1970s, I was wandering around a tiny branch of the public library when I stumbled upon Walden, a book by an author I’d never heard of, Henry David Thoreau. Little did I know that my life would be forever changed by what I found in its […]
Hello, everybody! This is the second article in the new series where my clients/students/friends get an opportunity to share some of their stories with you. Robbin is an expat Englishman living in Denmark. He went through an Awakening Session with me this past winter, and then his charming partner, a yoga teacher, did the same. […]
No one writes like Rupert Spira. The first time I ever opened the pages of The Transparency of Things I felt like someone had entered my heart and was whispering to me from it. I could feel his words, and hear them even better than I could take them in visually and process them intellectually. These […]
ASK THE AWAKENED The Negative Way by Wei Wu Wei PART I The Cross-Roads Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself— And there isn’t one. 1 – The Harlequinade Perhaps our most serious handicap is that we start on the wrong foot. […]
Dismantling The Fantasy an invitation to the fullness of life By Darryl Bailey There are no traditions in this. It is not an attempt to convince or to convert. It is a dream questioning itself. Once upon a time, a group of friends lay on a hillside watching a cloud. They had become fascinated with […]
THE SUN RISES IN THE EVENING by Gary Nixon Prelude: Time to Eat My Gun It was twelve years since he had first said, “My name is Randy and I am an alcoholic”. Twelve years of struggle, progress, inspiration and then stalling, stalling, stalling until stalling became falling. He looked at the gun in […]
FROM STRESS TO STILLNESS Tools for Inner Peace Excerpt from Chapter 1 by Gina Lake THE STRESS CHANNEL The Stress Channel is the ego’s channel. When we’re tuned in to the egoic mind and absorbed in […]
The whole truth can be summed up in one verse from the Jewish/Christian scriptures, “I am that I am”. And the entire method for realizing this truth is found in another of those scriptures, “Be still and know that I am God.” ~Sri Ramana Maharshi I Am That I Am Discovering […]
Only THAT The Life and Teaching of Sailor Bob Adamson by Kalyani Lawry All phenomena are like the sky and the characteristic feature of the sky is its natural condition. Every-thing abides in this natural condition. No phenomena manifesting to perception can be altered from their authentic state. “Nobody in the […]
WELCOME! We have another original article for you, a really fine piece by David Lang, who was a friend of Douglas Harding’s, the founder of the Headless Way. David is a longtime, avid proponent of this remarkably effective and freeing method of coming to see truth for ourselves. His presentation here is unique and incredibly […]
A FLOWER IN THE DESERT by DAVID LANG In 1970, when I was 17, my life was turned upside down by a very simple thing: a pointing finger—my pointing finger. I was in an ordinary room with ordinary-looking people, but my finger was pointing at what was extraordinary—indeed (it seemed) impossible: a place where […]
WELCOME! We have a Kenny Johnson double-header today that I know you’re going to enjoy. The story behind this post is pretty funny, so I’ll share it. Some months ago I was emailing back and forth with Chris Hebard of Stillness Speaks, and I mentioned I’d like to get Kenny to be a guest for Awakening […]
THE LAST HUSTLE A True Story By Kenny Johnson As told to Shanti Einolander This book is dedicated to all those incarcerated, whether in prisons of brick and stone or prisons of the mind. If you are earnestly looking inward for the key to eternal freedom, you will be […]
WELCOME. One of my clients is a graphic artist, Rupert Peene, who lives in San Francisco. Rupert has graciously allowed me to use his wonderful frogs as text separators on AC. I’d been looking for something like this, but had no idea what it would be–until I got an email from Rupert with a frog in […]
ORDINARY FREEDOM By Jon Bernie Foreword We do not usually think of ordinariness and spirituality as existing together, and in one sense they do not belong together. If we think that spiritual freedom is something that can fit nicely into our ordinary […]
You Are No Thing by Randall Friend Part 1 – The Search Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. – Ashtavakra Gita A Summary of a Spiritual Search How did Randall ‘get’ this? How did he […]