Ok, in the last post we discussed Awakening. Awakening is simply being natural and easy, here and now. And from this place of easiness and flow, life transforms without effort.

How do we get ‘here’? We don’t. We’re already natural and [...]

What we’re all after is the joy of being.

No matter who you are or what your life is like, you have had the feeling that life can be much easier, more natural and happier than it is. This is the start of the process of Awakening.

Awakening is a realization. Awakening is the realization of [...]

In late 2006 I was suicidally depressed. I was at the deepest end of the dark abyss of depression and I had given up on any attempt to climb out, knowing from the hundreds of prior attempts that all I’ll manage to do is tear off my fingernails without ever making it to light. I [...]

Depression is the opposite of Love. If Awake is the most expansive being, depression is the most contracted. Depression is deep futility. Every emotion is numb. You can’t feel pleasure or pain. You can’t remember what emotions felt like. You can’t imagine how it is possible to feel anything but the way you are feeling.  [...]

Over on Urban Monk, Albert writes about Acceptance. Albert’s style is personal and warm. Acceptance is important; my turn-around started with the complete acceptance of depression and anxiety. At that time, the acceptance came not from wisdom, but from sheer exhaustion. I was tired of the struggle. The letting go of all judgment about depression, [...]

This is a beautiful technique that’s as effective as it is simple. That’s because it’s very natural. We knew it as children but have forgotten how to use it. It works right away with emotions, but once you have some practice with it, you can use if just as well for thoughts and beliefs, and [...]

In the instant before you began to read this, there was Awareness. As soon as you started to read, Awareness was seemingly obscured by thought. But it is not obscured; it never is, for you could not read this without Awareness. Attention can be on Awareness, or it can be on objects in Awareness, in any case there is always Awareness.

Forget about gurus and religions and satsangs. Forget about temples and churches and mosques. You don’t need teachers or guides, and you don’t need psychologists and therapists, and you don’t need self-improvement guides and you most certainly don’t need a “life coach.” There is no “I’ll be happy when”.

It’s all about accessing our natural ability to be in flow. When we are in flow, living improves without effort on our part. Flow is happy, non-resitant living in the Now. It is so very natural that when we “arrive” it’s hard to remember how or why we ever lived a life of struggle. Where [...]

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. -Buddha There is a veil between you and sublime reality, and this is the veil of thought. Identification with thought is an obstacle.