Toward a World that Works for Everyone
You know, I don’t know how I would have made it this lifetime if I did not treat each event as a learning experience. If I didn’t sense at some level that all of this is moving towards some grand culmination. If I didn’t know, at some place in my being, that things could be […]
Clearly my personality survives intact in some way, shape or form. I don’t know what the road ahead holds. I can only report. What I report now arises from my practice, on the path of awareness, of maintaining awareness of myself. I detected a pattern. I was people-pleasing. I was complimenting someone on a coat […]
Everything, it seems, is a confidence game. Not just as in a swindle. Let’s leave that meaning aside and look at the role of confidence in what we do in our everyday lives. I could never drive a bus. I don’t have the confidence. I could never fly an airplane, do heart surgery, or drive […]
The way things seem to go, it’s often only after a condition has departed that we learn what it was and what it did. For example, hostility having been recognized and left, I’m now beginning to see some things about it. Hostility has many poses. One of them, I’m now seeing, is “Don’t mess with […]
I’m inspired by Linda Dillon’s recent Daybreak on breakthrough (1) and encouraged to organize my own thoughts on the subject. At the same time, I’ve just had a breakthrough from hostility to harmony and that fits into this discussion. I invite anyone interested further in the subject to read anything by or about Werner Erhard, […]
I know that, at my deepest level, I am pure and innocent. (1) But between here and there is a layer of barely-suppressed hostility – suspicion, guardedness, aggressiveness. Part of that, I believe, is past-life bleedthrough. I was a military commander a long time ago. I see the jarring events of my early life as […]
When tension increases, awareness decreases. The converse should also be true: When tension decreases, (1) awareness should increase. And so, in the midst of chaos, my awareness appears to be increasing. Having dropped Constant Comment, weathered the eruption of Humiliation that followed, (pant, pant) I notice that I have reached a place of … well, […]
I continue to observe the changes within me. Concurrent with feeling happiness for virtually the first time in my life – within memory – the other day, I also notice that I’m wandering around without something. I was repositioning a picture and, having accomplished something, I found myself waiting for the spoilers to come along […]
There’s so much I want to say about the process I’ve just been through so things are not missed. The ideas are tumbling out. What I did was I processed a root vasana or core issue. Processing a vasana is the (wholesome) alternative to blaming and shouting at another person. Long ago I swore I […]
I was going through wave after wave of anger, experiencing it through to completion now that the vasana of father hatred was at last up. I resolved to be angry for as long as it took for the light to go on. And the light went on when I asked myself: What is the cost […]
Vesuvius is quietening down. Let me do a post-mortem. Father hatred leaves me flat, unresponsive, shallow in my compassion. Hindus call that state of mind thamasic, lethargic. In my everyday awareness, I can feel it only subtly, as a slightly negative attitude towards everything – not skeptical but pessimistic. Disbelief, despair, depression. As I said […]
Even as my feelings of competence and willingness increase, my sensitivity to non-credible name-calling and meme wars increases. I’ve reached a new level of resistance to dualistic/polarized news. Issues, memes, name-calling. I’ve had enough. And this came about as a result of what I read on what I regard as a leading spiritual/alternative news site. […]
by Brenda Hoffman https://tinyurl.com/y2owybor Dear Ones, Mask or no mask. Yes or no. Right or left. Up or down. Such is so for a reason. You are all declaring your right to be in ways that you did not anticipate when you initiated this transition. In all likelihood, you envisioned that some of you […]
I just wrote an article (1) that illustrates a process that I don’t want us to miss out on noticeing. It’s a very important process and realizing it’s at work here would be of benefit. What just happened for me was that cognitive dissonance built up to such an extent that I cast the prevailing […]
Werner Erhard made the distinction between an us-against-them and an us-and-them world. A world that works for everyone is an us-and-them world. Others have called it win/win. Now, I was not raised in an us-and-them environment, not viewed from any angle – except perhaps the angle of the soccer or baseball team. Our team – […]
