I’m losing 10 to 15 lbs a month since May, without effort or dieting. You might wonder why I’m writing about healthy weight management on a website which is about being a natural, free, human being. Well, there are a number of relevant lessons in this. A few years ago I got tired of dieting. [...]

Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself [...]

Love and Fear What is love?” “The total absence of fear,” said the Master. “What is it we fear?” “Love,” said the Master. (Anthony de Mello) “…how few understand what love really is, and how it arises in the human heart.  It is so frequently equated with good feelings toward others, with benevolence or nonviolence [...]

The most essential question: 1.       Is there enough joy, love and peace in your life? Some others: 2.       In your most quiet moments, when you are quiet and there are no distractions, do you feel the unease within you? Is it obvious or is it subtle? Is it a lurching away from what is? 3.      [...]

“I might as well tell you right at the start of this talk that you’re not living your own life and I want you to listen to the talk tonight so that you can get a start on living from who you really are. You’re living from who you are not now, whether you’re aware [...]

You are born. Some stuff happens in the middle. Then you die. “May I ask just one question?” put in one of the others. “In what manner should one live one’s daily life?” As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour. “How?” If you had only one hour to live, [...]

To free the mind from all conditioning, you must see the totality of it without thought. This is not a conundrum; experiment with it and you will see. Do you ever see anything without thought? Have you ever listened, looked, without bringing in this whole process of reaction? You will say that it is impossible [...]

As awakening deepens, I notice I have a number of favorite tools. They really are all the same—they all come down to noticing. But it can help to come at this from various angles. The tool I rely on the most is releasing. Because more often than not what is between me and Truth is [...]

The truth that we are not what we take ourselves to be is glaringly and painfully obvious. The ego has no answer to this simple truth, but it does a have a typically effective solution: it just obliterates the question from our consciousness. This is why most of us go through life without facing up [...]

Lisa of Mommy Mystic does a fabulous interview with Karen Miller. Karen suggests that the ego’s deft ability to fool ourselves is a good reason to seek out a teacher.  A good teacher can keep us honest. It’s an excellent point. But many of us do not resonate with spiritual traditions or gurus. There is [...]