What works is what makes us happy, where “happy” is defined in a relational way – that is, where it is not a brief personal elevation of emotion but a solid network of entities each working to ensure the other is better off. In saying this, I am thinking of Heinz von Foerster’s observation thatContinue reading “Happiness is Relational”
Author Archives: Sean
The Secret to Awakening
If somebody asked me for the secret to awakening or the best way to see the face of God and live or how to be so happy that even dying can’t turn your frownie upside downie, I’d probably say “give attention to your experience of resistance and see what you can do to cut itContinue reading “The Secret to Awakening”
A Course in Miracles as Map
In a sense, A Course in Miracles became a distraction. Imagine that you are trying to reach a particular city, and have with you a map that guides you to the city. When you reach the city, the map is no longer helpful – indeed, if you insist on referring to it, it can onlyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles as Map”
The Play Our Loving Longs to Behold
To love is to play. To long for the other is to long to be in communication. Play in communication is the play our love for one another longs to bring forth. Truly we are love. One could argue that this post reflects a category mistake: that is, it assigns qualities to something that shouldContinue reading “The Play Our Loving Longs to Behold”
On God, Love and A Course in Miracles
I want to jot down some notes with respect to God, bodies, love, oneness and A Course in Miracles. I want to propose an anology: body as an instrument on which the melody of love plays. To me this is a helpful frame, one that gestures away from limitation and loss and towards undifferentiated oneness.Continue reading “On God, Love and A Course in Miracles”
Beyond the Meaninglessness of Thought
Tara Singh makes the excellent point that thought is absolutely uncowed by being told in the 10th lesson of A Course in Miracles that “My thoughts do not mean anything.” Indeed, it welcomes the idea, the way a congregation of well-intentioned Christians might welcome a hungry pilgrim. How else shall we convince the Lord ofContinue reading “Beyond the Meaninglessness of Thought”