The Peace that Passes Understanding In the Christian New Testament, we find reference to ‘the peace that passes understanding.’ When I was heavily involved in Christianity, I had an intellectual understanding of what this meant but, no visceral, actual experience of...
Dealing with Fear In the silence of this moment, everything is okay. If my mind starts up again, chattering about the future, it can get ‘lost’ momentarily in the chatter. Then fear can arise, and the whole ego-process can start up again. This is the path of...
Death is Our Companion My 13-year-old nephew died of a rare blood disorder that stayed hidden until three days before it took his life. The shock of the statement is enough to stop people in their tracks, let alone the reality behind the statement. Death can come at...
Embodiment: Awakening Occurs in a Body Today I’ve been thinking how very esoteric the terms ‘waking up’ or ‘enlightenment’ often sound, and how very divorced from our bodies and our human experience they are ‘advertised’ to be. One of my early fantasies about being...
Lots of Nothing I remember thinking that when I ‘woke up’ my troubles would all be over and that people would recognize that something had ‘happened’ to ‘me’ and that ‘I’ would instantly become a teacher to other people. Hahahahahaha….the ego-mind makes...