If you ever wondered what launched me into the wider public eye as a spiritual unteacher, wonder no more. This is it. I reached down inside as far as I could go when I wrote this piece five years ago. I intentionally sat down to write my best, highest, clearest piece ever. I must have […]
IT’S FINALLY HERE!! Thank you! The Book of Nothing (available on Amazon) is 250 pages of quotes and piercing questions that were painstakingly pulled from our live-online Sunday Satsangs by my dear friend, the late Gordon Goodman, M.D. He spent an entire year pulling out helpful quotes and questions from my responses to […]
WHAT AUTHENTIC NONDUALITY IS NOT ABOUT (FYI, no one’s proofreading this and it’s late at night so you get what you get.) Pardon me while I step onto my soapbox. Ahem. The historical Buddha’s core teaching was as stunningly simple as it was earth-shattering. Above and beyond anything else, he taught, “There is no self.” […]
This article was first published in 2017. Everything it says is as relevant today as it was then, so I’m presenting it again. f♥ In Zen Buddhism, the keisaku (Japanese: 警策, Chinese: 香板, xiāng bǎn; *kyōsaku in the Soto school) is a flat wooden stick or slat used during periods of meditation to remedy sleepiness or lapses of concentration. […]
Mike Stiler is a very successful artist in California. He is also a friend of ours and a Zen teacher. I received this from him last week and finally got a chance to read and post it today. f I wrote this today, in response to a rising sense of anxiety about life in […]
This is not much of a “nondual” post. It feels intimately personal, which is known here to be impossible, given that there’s nothing personal about This, and that there’s no person to even claim the feeling. Nonetheless, I will share it with you anyway. Addiction is seeking. An addict is essentially a blind pattern […]
One of my dearest clients is being treated for cancer. We are in regular contact. I sent him this the other night. Both he and his wife were very appreciative of it, so I’m sharing it with the rest of you. (Relative-world challenges, too, are within the embrace of wholeness.) Perhaps take a moment and […]
This letter began as a quick email to a client this morning as I sat in my living room tapping on my iPhone. It morphed into this. Dear You, The make-believe character you think you are longs for a “repeat” of an overwhelmingly convincing false memory of a “past” awakening and the attendant clarity which […]
Before we launch into the question of whether our brains are the tools to employ in attempting to understand Reality-As-It-Is, let’s first look at a much, much smaller question just to get a feel for the brain’s effectiveness as an arbiter of Truth. . Question: “How many stars are there in the universe?” Answer […]
I get this question all the time. So does Betsy. So I am embarrassed (so to speak), amazed and appalled that it never once occurred to me to put up a post about it. I’ll immediately put a link to this post on the Meetings page so that I can easily refer newcomers to it. […]
It was a hard day today. Our wonderful old friend and dear companion, Dickens Hackett-Davis, went to the vet for the last time. Kidney failure. Dickens lived an essentially perfect life for a cat of his temperament. Had he gone where there were children, he would have imploded. Had he gone where demands were made […]
If I were going to describe the chief methodology of The Living Method of Spiritual Awakening (which includes both the event, if one is noticed, and the process which both precedes and follows the event), then I would say “nondual inquiry.” Ramana Maharshi, whom I always admire and adore, and whom I occasionally address directly, […]
Here is the truth. You can’t wake up, because you’re already awake and you just don’t know it. Yet. I know, I know, you’ve heard this before. When I was told this while I was a seeker, I wanted to punch somebody in the nose. Why in the world would anyone tell me that? Clearly […]
The post-awakening clearing process – provided there is one, which we can never assume – is built around our ability and willingness to remain alert to this present arising. In the Old Testament story of the Exodus, the fleeing Hebrew hordes received their bread, their “manna from heaven” strictly on a day-to-day basis. There was no […]
This post is about how morphing relativity can affect spiritual experience and equanimity. Call me unenlightened, but relativity still counts in my book. I don’t minimize or dismiss it, and I’m not trying to avoid it. This teaching is about embracing it exactly as it is. Fred Davis is wholly incapable of pulling that off. […]
Welcome! I’ve just published a new book, The Book of Unknowing, which is now available on Amazon and other sites in the US, and will soon be available internationally. Where The Book of Undoing is about how to awaken, this new book is about the journey afterward–how to clear, how to stabilize, and how to […]
Here’s a link to a l-o-n-g excerpt from Peter Dziuban’s new Simply Notice. Hello, everybody! Welcome! Just a quick catch-up on the last two weeks. My business adviser, Sharon Dejarlais, was up here from Florida a week or so ago for a couple of days, and after giving the whole idea […]
Hello, everybody! There’s been quite a lot happening since my last column. ~First off, let me tell you about my trip to Asheville, North Carolina. What a hoot! The folks who live there are terrific! I was universally treated with kindness, and there was great acceptance and appreciation for this teaching. We held a three and a half […]
Welcome! If you’ve not seen the new page, Letters from Ground Zero, do check it out. It’s a series of letters addressed to me, all of them raw, gutsy, and honest, from people who’ve woken up with me. It’s a fascinating, up-close view of the freshly awakened mind. The authors have of course given their permission […]
For a close-up look at the freshly awakened state from the viewpoint of other Awakening Clarity readers, please check out the brand new Letters from Ground Zero page.] Welcome! Hello, everybody, it’s great to be with you again! For those of you in the US, happy three-day Labor Day weekend. We have a nice custom with a funny […]
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