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The Maelstrom Called You — Why Every Person Is Ecelctic
The other day I heard one person describe another person as “eclectic.” I thought about this for a while and realized that using the adjective eclectic to describe a person is redundant. Moot. Not even worth mentioning. Why? Because every...
How to Use Words Correctly
When we talk about anything, we talk about experience. Any word we use isn’t the thing in itself but only a proxy for a direct experience. This should be obvious but it’s all too easily forgotten. Why is that? Because language is just so hypnotizing. It’s...
Guilty Until Imagined Innocent
Many of us feel like we're perpetrators of some undefined crime. What did we do to deserve this and not that? Why am I here and not there? Perhaps you feel like you're in some place you shouldn't be in, or you're not good enough, or you need to prove...
The Costume Party
This thing we call life is one big weird costume party. It’s where billions of apparent people come together to build, destroy, socialize, fight, laugh, cry, love, hate, scheme, convince, accept, get shit-faced, have fun, have no fun, and so on. We’re...
Beware of Dead Weight
“Beware of dead weight, my companions. All is a dead weight to the man who has a firm faith in his godhood. He holds in himself the world, yet carries not its weight.” — Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad Reflecting on this passage from The Book of Mirdad...
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™
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
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. 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
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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