Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Steve is away at Lake Tahoe. We hear it said so often, “Well, that is my truth. What is your truth?” Or “Well, that is the truth of the moment.” Or “What is true on the Third Dimension is illusion on the Fifth.” So what is the truth … about the truth? Perhaps we can […]
There are some topics that are so obvious that many people – well, I know I do – forget to lay them on the table. The need to share deeply is one of them. So many of our conversations are pastimes. I recall vividly how, listening to others in the lunchroom at work, so much […]
I said earlier (1) that my life is the “ultimate experiment.” Perhaps I can, with your permission, say more about life as the ultimate experiment in this next series of articles. “Ultimate” because I was in a very much more elevated state of experiencing when I wrote that than I am now. Of course it’s […]
Life is a game – and it’s rigged! It is. It actually is. (Shhhh! Don’t tell anyone. Wink, wink! Nudge, nudge!) How is it rigged? The answer lies in what Shankara called “the longing for liberation.” “[The] longing for liberation is the will to be free from the fetters forged by ignorance — beginning with […]
It’s often said that the Buddha did not acknowledge God. I don’t think that’s the case. Here he’s quite explicit on the subject. “Monks, there is a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be apparent no escape from this, here, that is born, […]
The word “ego” simply means “I” in Latin. Everything in spirituality revolves around “I.” The purpose of life is to know the true nature of our “I” or “Self.” We let go of one restrictive or separative notion of “self” after another and mount the ladder of spiritual knowledge until we’re left with the knowledge […]
Jeshua: The True Nature of Meditation, as channeled by Judith Coates, February 2014, at https://www.oakbridge.org Beloved one, I would speak with you now about what is called meditation. There is not a day that goes by that you do not spend some time in meditation, for there are various stages of what you would call […]
