What if nothing ever happened? What if the concepts of relative and absolute are just ideas dreamt by individuals who never existed? What if in the beginning there was a void-nothing and there never was a beginning? What if beginning,
Does Awakening End Suffering?
Many spiritual seekers are searching for an end to suffering. What produces suffering? Often, we equate suffering with loss of control. We want to control our past, present, and future. When events are not going the way we would like
Can Destiny Block Awakening?
Are there any blocks capable of preventing me from awakening in this life? This question was recently posed by a sangha member. It goes hand in hand with the question, “What if I am just not destined to awaken in
The Habit of Body
A sangha member observed: “One thing that I have been finding very interesting the last couple of weeks—I am very comfortable letting go of the past and really stay in the moment most of the time, but occasionally something
For A Dear Friend
This post is offered to a dear friend, with general application for us all. The path to fully living the recognition as undifferentiated awareness often doesn’t feel urgent. We, after all, have our entire life ahead of us. Sometimes,
Hell Is Other People
“Hell is other people” is a sentiment expressed by Jean Paul Sartre, an existential philosopher. In Being and Nothingness, he states, “If there is an Other, whatever, wherever, whatever its relationship with me . . . then I have