There is an identity, but no entity. There is a personality, but no person. The nondual teacher Rupert Spira once explained that the nature of objects is that they can be set apart from one another. We can distinguish the smell of coffee from the warm rays of the sun touching our skin. We know […]
There is a Danish saying that a dear child has many names. So it is with language, which we cherish as essential to our humanity. Thoughts, concepts, labels, ideas, theories, descriptions, definitions, judgments, strategies, interpretations, stories—all of these express and reinforce our love of abstraction. One of the great teachers of non-duality, the 9th-century Chinese […]
How can anyone convey to you that the journey you’re about to embark upon cannot be conceptualized? You have spent your entire adult life living in thought and concept, but are now called to a place entirely beyond this habitual frame of reference. How on earth will you reach it? How will you not look […]
To be awake in the dream is to see that one can only experience oneself. One is no longer subject to the idea that life happens to one. It’s all local to this unit. Although I still see a world full of objects, apparently separate from myself, I know that this is all an internal […]
All living beings, whether born from eggs, from the womb, from moisture, or spontaneously, whether they have form or do not have form, whether they are aware or unaware, whether they are not aware or not unaware, all living beings will eventually be led by me to the final Nirvana, the final ending of the […]
1. It’s a journey of seeing, or hearing. 2. It’s a journey of reducing the contamination of personal understanding. No thought is true and no concept is real. I’m paraphrasing Jed McKenna. My experience says this is true. 3. It’s not a journey of perfecting the self. Perfection is already who you are. The journey […]
Dimension Extension by Julee Bergstrom The awakening process is unlike any other transformation you might undergo. It does not simply broaden your horizons, but opens them up and out into infinite dimensions. It’s like learning that the earth is round, having previously “known” it was flat (as many believed prior to 300 BC). You would […]
I am not this body. I am not this body. I am not this body. I am unborn, unbound, and untouched. I am unborn, unbound and untouched. I am unborn, unbound and untouched. These are two mantras Fred has suggested I use to cultivate clarity – to remind me who I am not, and who […]
Those who have gone before us on the spiritual quest leave a trail of breadcrumbs for us to follow. But their pointers only truly illuminate when they become an affirmation of our own discoveries. And you can only discover by searching for yourself. Nothing is truly known until it is seen through personal insight. Until […]
Thought is a creative force. All life is experienced through thought. Consciousness perceives life through the creative principle of thought. An arising, as I perceive it, is the ground of being creating life each and every moment, with consciousness perceiving it through the principle of thought. Creation is alive – now. Reality is continually […]
Spiritual Materialism by Stephen Farrell Steve Farrell is a member of the Continuing Students Program. He has about as much zeal for living as Awakeness as anyone you’re ever going to meet. That zeal induces humility, and Steve teaches me about that slippery attribute on a regular basis. Unfortunately, I’m a lousy student. But I […]
Simply at Ease by Mike Zerbel Mike Zerbel has been with me for quite a while, and is another member of the Continuing Students Program. Those students, who are part of a broader awakening community, will be writing here regularly. Mike lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. We had a Clarity Session this […]
Adam Volny is enrolled in The Living Method Continuing Student Program. He woke up about a year ago from my video course – on the very same day that he decided (at least apparently) to get serious about pursuing nondual truth. The Book of Undoing was on a reading list suggested by a self-help type […]