Kick the House of Cards

Kick the House of Cards

Inquiry doesn’t ask you to learn more, do more, or become more.   Inquiring means looking — raw and unfiltered — straight into the heart of your experience.   For the modern consciousness connoisseur, inquiry is often associated with Ramana’s self-inquiry —...
The Infinite Rope Dilemma™

The Infinite Rope Dilemma™

Okay, the dilemma goes like this:   Imagine an infinite rope. All there is is infinite rope.   Now imagine you’re tasked to find the knot in this infinite rope. I call this The Infinite Rope Dilemma™ — TIRD™, for short.   How would you go about it?...
The Subtle Art of Getting Your Feet Kissed

The Subtle Art of Getting Your Feet Kissed

  There’s one-upmanship in every human endeavor. Even spirituality.   Ironic but not surprising.   The same energy that drives us into other pursuits such as career, wealth, family, fame, and power drives us into spirituality. You learned this by direct...
Mind Is a Convenient Fiction

Mind Is a Convenient Fiction

  Mind is a convenient fiction. Useful, conventionally.   It allows us to take ownership of thinking and build a cozy little container around it and imagine that we know where thoughts come from and where they disappear into. Instead of thought coming from...
The Grand Disappointment

The Grand Disappointment

  Awakening is often treated as the highest achievement.   But achievement is the wrong word for it.   Achievement implies that you have done something and have succeeded at doing so and can now enjoy the fruits of your achievement.   Awakening...

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