WELCOME to the seventh installment of Awakening Clarity’s Guest Teaching Series. One week at a time we’re building what is effectively becoming the Who’s Who of contemporary Nonduality. We hope to become the standard reference source for sampling teachers and teachings. It’s a great way to see how well you resonate, or to simply get […]
WELCOME to the sixth installment of our Guest Teaching Series. One week at a time, one teacher at a time, we’re building what is effectively becoming an open resource of current teachers and teachings covering the range of Nonduality. WHEN IT COMES to counting the living giants of Advaita, we don’t need to use very many fingers. One […]
Richard Lang is the dearest, most cheerful man I know, and I am absolutely delighted to have him with us this week in the fifth installment of the Guest Teaching Series. There’s been a tremendous response to this series and thus it will surely continue until it doesn’t. I have guests signed up through the end of […]
James Braha is our fourth author/teacher in this Guest Teachings Series. Our selection from his work will come from Living Reality: My Extraordinary Summer with “Sailor” Bob Adamson. It’s a unique work in among the hundreds of nonduality titles begging for our attention. It’s both a tremendously satisfying story, and a fine, fine teaching. Here’s part […]
This is the third in our series of Guest Teachings. I hope you’re enjoying discovering, or rediscovering the teachers and teachings as much as I’m enjoying publishing them. Sometimes getting out of “the box” of what we’re intimately familiar with is just what we need to wake up, or wake up again, if you will. […]
This is the first of a series of guest teachings I’ll be presenting in an effort to showcase current teachers and their work, and to bring the very best of Nonduality to readers of Awakening Clarity. I will be reprinting short sections from the guests’ previously published work, which will give you the opportunity to see how […]
Want to wake up? Click here. IN THE LAST COLUMN I SPOKE about how I came to find my feet on Atmananda’s Direct Path. I took a large leap, however, in assuming that my readers know of him. A year ago I’d never paid any attention to him myself. I remember seeing his photo from […]
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 […]