The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its sound but dost not know where it comes from or where it goes. ~ John 3:8 Yet the utterly subjective nature of our experience as human observers must be entered as into a mystery, its apparent infinities and eternities robustly explored. The interior is allContinue reading “Spiritual Poverty and the Mystery of Subjectivity”
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Being Homo Amans: Happiness as a Spiritual Practice
I say sometimes to my students: “take what you learn and act in the world with it. Do something.” And when they ask what they should do, I tell them to help somebody in a way that makes both parties happier than they were before the encounter started. Related to this – especially when itContinue reading “Being Homo Amans: Happiness as a Spiritual Practice”
Against Conclusions, Spiritual and Otherwise
Experience is a continous whole that functions as a perspective. Experience provides an observer with a lot of phenomena – mental, emotional, physical – to observe. It owns the curious apparent paradox that it consists entirely of change and yet itself never changes. There are ways to experience this change-that-never-changes. You might consider experience asContinue reading “Against Conclusions, Spiritual and Otherwise”
Oneness Functions as Perspective
Part of what I am saying is that a human observer is essentially a perspective, A way of seeing rather than THE way of seeing. If I am sitting by the river I am not mucking the horse pasture. I am weeding the strawberries I am not writing poetry under the apple tree. If IContinue reading “Oneness Functions as Perspective”
On Oneness
Perhaps we might consider the difference between oneness and one, and see the way the observing organism has a tendency to translate the former into the latter, and then to forget its translation, and – inevitably – defend against any effort to instigate remembering. (The fragment longs to be whole. The human desires union –Continue reading “On Oneness”
Self Setting Aside Self
A non-trivial aspect of my spiritual practice – that is rooted in A Course in Miracles but diverges in thoughtful applied ways – is to set gently aside questions of mystery in favor of engagement with what appears, or what seems to be, the case. That is, when I am mucking the horse pasture, orContinue reading “Self Setting Aside Self”