In my awakening post, I spoke about how what brought about the experience was fundamentally a state of true listening. I'd like to expand on true listening. I'll describe this using four levels of listening. The first level of listening is superficial listening. This is what most of us do in conversation. We listen from […]
Most of the time, I write about ideas (or rather transcending ideas). Today I thought I would just talk about my experience from a subjective standpoint about what happened to me a couple of years ago. For those that don't know, it was like some sort of awakening experience, a really profound shift in consciousness […]
A friend of mine was telling me a beautiful story of her friend's mom who is affected by dementia. This story fascinated me because I thought it was such a great example of seeing. For pretty much all her life, she would spend the evenings watching TV to pass the time, but because of the […]
Thoughts of guilt, anger, and fear are like dampness to mold, eating away at peace, tormenting the mind. Forgiving and loving thoughts dry out the mold. But an insight is like the sun, and in one instant restores the mind completely to peace.