finding my mind … isn’t mine!
Last night I watched a TV program called “Finding My Mind.” This is how the program was described in the TV Guide: This program unravels the mysteries of the brain. For thousands of years philosophers...
View Articlewhat is it that follows me wherever I go?
There are so many lives packed into one. The one life we think we know is only the window that is open on the screen. The big window full of detail, where the meaning is often lost among the facts....
View Article‘I’ is the only player
. 55 there has been rain in the night and the earth’s breath is fresh and fruity this dawn . what am I? I am Awareness that ‘I am’ not and only ‘I’ is intellectual acceptance of this isn’t difficult; …...
View Articlewhatever the experience, you are always free
A Solstice/Christ-mass/Seasonal gift for sentient sacred souls: an excerpt from a piece called Essentializing written by one of the clearest and dearest of contemporary teachers: … you are always this...
View Articlegrounded by love
This post is reblogged with gratitude from Pema Deane’s The Vibrant Heart. Pema’s posts often have an uncanny serendipitous resonance with the unfoldings happening here. I love her deep wideawake...
View Articleode to the great mother
A poem for Mothers’ Day. ODE TO THE GREAT MOTHER by Han Marie Stiekema I’ve had three teachers My Indian Guru Life and the Great Mother The first transmitted me the Light Through life I was...
View Articlewords from my treasured teacher 1
I wanted to write, “words from my perfect master” – recalling the film by that title. But Krishnamurti would have balked at the “master” moniker, and thrown out the notion of perfection as well....
View Articlesink deep down into yourself
So. The atoms in a human body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space. But is space really “empty”? Bob O’Hearn echoes the ancient sages – Eihei Dogen comes to mind – in reminding us that what we think...
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