I cannot tell you What Is. I can only ask you What If. Why can I not tell you What Is? Because your mind will not believe me. Therefore, I am speaking directly to You. And I will not try to convince your mind of anything. What If your life could be lived in such […]
Have you ever tried to awake a sleeping man? How does he respond? As you try to awaken him, he shrugs his shoulder and grunts and turns his head to the other side of the pillow. He is drugged by sleep. The greatest and most ubiquitous addiction in the world. But the sleep I’m […]
I have traveled for so long. I have seen many things. Victories. Heartbreaks. Glories. And disappointments. And each time I experienced them I felt that they were everything. I saw them with wide eyes. And the closer I looked at them, the more I became them. I became my successes. And I became my failures. […]
He said . . . . . . but I realize that my life is headed like a freight train toward a cataclysm that will be the end of me. The mind keeps indulging in its swath of emotion. It sits and slops in its pool of unabated emotion. And I have become so complicit […]
If you look into the world today, and indeed even into your own life, you will see a pervasive haphazardness. You will notice a certain degree of turmoil that has been ongoing for decades. It is not that one’s entire life is in turmoil necessarily. It is that there is a constant undercurrent of visceral […]
There is only one place where the mind cannot exist: In This Moment. I recently came upon the blog of Nicole Schwab. She wrote a post titled, Are We Losing Our Grip On Reality? She concludes with the following: So that we may come back to our center. So that we may go back up-stream – as […]
Siddhartha Gautama spent years in the forest. He tortured his body. Deprived himself of food. Drank his own urine. And sat in the rain. What did this get him? Emaciated and on the verge of death. It was only when he realized that this had gotten him nowhere that he found the true road to […]
In the classic film, Wall Street, Charlie Sheen says, “I never knew how poor I was until I started to make some real money.” Please don’t worry. I won’t try to awaken you from your slumber. Scout’s honor. You can remain asleep as you read this discourse. Please . . . turn to the other […]
I’m not here to provide you with a new “remedy” for depression. You’ve heard plenty of those. You’ve heard from the psychologists and the psychiatrists. You’ve read about the latest treatments that “science” has uncovered. And the numbered list posts which, quite frankly, are an insult to the glorious creation that is a human being. […]
I am here to tell you The Truth. And this truth is not meant for “the world.” For “the world” is nothing more than background noise meant for the Insincere. Now apparently everyone “meditates.” There are now meditation groups. And meditation billboards. And “scientific” articles about meditation espousing the “health benefits” of meditation. And fingernails-on-a-chalkboard exchanges […]