Category Archives: Awakening

We have to reach the junction where we see our own specialness, which means being willing to understand that specialness is not love but hate. This is easy to hold as a spiritual ideal but hard to live out in terms of the body. Basically, if we see something in ourself that we believe makesContinue reading “Seeking the Law of Love”

In a sense, to come to stillness is to see clearly that choice is the last illusion. There is nothing to choose between; there is only this: this this. The many choices that appear to us are always various forms of the one choice, which is the choice to remember God or not remember GodContinue reading “Beyond Choice, Love”

Imagine that it’s lunch time. On the table before you are twenty hot dogs. Each is the same – one hot dog in a roll without any condiments. They are identical. So you’re going to pick one, but it doesn’t matter which one you pick. You can call it a choice but is it really?Continue reading “Choice is the Last Illusion”

If I were pretending to know something, which I am not, because I don’t, I might write the following. When you are “awake,” there will be no “you” to partake of the experience, and no “other” with whom to share it. It’s not an experience that one has, nor a state one observes, nor anContinue reading “Beyond Spiritual Awakening”

The Upanishads say that “only once in a thousand thousand years does a soul wake up.” That strikes me as unverifiable in principle, which raises the question: why would the authors say this? I think there are at least two possibilities, or maybe just one that can be taken either more or less cynically. I’llContinue reading “Letting Go of Awakening”