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Infinite Mystery
A recent interaction with one of my gurus (currently alive) has left ‘me’ puzzled and looking at the search for ‘awakening’ and ‘enlightenment’ in a whole different way. I think I got addicted to the approval of teachers, so I have wandered around for the last 45...Who is the Guru?
Who is the Guru? I’ve often been asked who my ‘guru’ is, and I’ve had to ponder carefully when answering the question. I don’t have just one guru, I’ve had many. There is a long tradition of being told that we should work with only one guru, who should be able to...Calm and Quiet?
Calm and Quiet Noise echoes relentlessly through modern lives. There is the noise of machines, multitudes of people, and the “noise” of endless communication in a multitude of forms (text, email, voicemail, paging, pinging, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest,...Nothing, Everything
Nothing, Everything In the Stillness, chimes sing, notes sound, clocks tick. I Am perception: perceiver, perceived, perceiving: collapse Into Essence when no thought’s intruding. Then nothing sustains the illusory “self” and Self is imploding. No seer, no seen,...The Peace that Passes Understanding
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
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
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
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
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...SUPPORT JONATHAN’S WRITING
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