(1) In my dream we walked to the lake and you asked me questions about awakening and love. Your hands gestured in the moonlight like birds whose name was not yet given. “I want to know what you know,” you said. “I want to know the whole of it.” When we reached the water youContinue reading “On Knowledge and Perception”
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A Course in Miracles: Changing our Mind
Something obstructs our happiness. We try and try and we don’t get any happier. Maybe we even get more scared and lonely and sad. Can we see that thinking is not always our ally? That our happiness may depend on a change of mind that transcends what we thought we knew? Richard Feynman, a notedContinue reading “A Course in Miracles: Changing our Mind”
On Error and Correction
We might be tempted to say that the student who sees a snake and subsequently sees it is a rope made a mistake. Thought inclines towards right and wrong so that kind of judgment can seem natural and even necessary. Yet there is a way to see this that is not about mistakes at all.Continue reading “On Error and Correction”
Healing and A Course in Miracles
The healing anticipated by A Course in Miracles – which is the healing that attends one’s study of it – is simply the ability to discern between what is false and what is true. This discernment is natural but having forgotten we can do it, we need to remember how to do it. That isContinue reading “Healing and A Course in Miracles”
On Remembering to be Grateful
The debt I feel to A Course in Miracles is large; yet simultaneously, it is known that there is nothing to be in debt to, nor a self to be so indebted. This paradox is problematic only if one expects language to function differently than is its nature. Words are separative – once they areContinue reading “On Remembering to be Grateful”
Mutuality of Being and Nonbeing
The Tao Te Ching observes that ‘to be’ and ‘not to be’ arise mutually. The one includes – necessarily makes possible – the other. It is like holding a coin and asserting that only the side we “see” exists; of course both sides exist. How could it be otherwise? Thus, as soon as one saysContinue reading “Mutuality of Being and Nonbeing”