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The Importance of Dreaming Well
Let’s briefly forget this whole awakening business and focus on something partially related. You have to dream well. In other words, you should enjoy the life you’re living. Many people find themselves living nightmares and use that as their fuel for...
Top-down or Bottom-up?
If you've been with me for a while, you might have noticed that I talk about two approaches here. On the one hand, I prattle on about the fact that your true nature is that always present undeniable awareness and all you need to “do” is glimpse it and then keep...
How to Get All You Ever (Truly) Wanted
Let's assume you have all the survival needs covered. You have shelter, food, …well, that's basically it. Now, what do you want? Everything you want from here on out is not because you need it. Through an intricate mechanism of countless factors, a...
You Can Get Off the Vomit Treadmill Now
This world we live in, apart from being fun and entertaining, is insane. By world, I don't mean the world of trees and rivers and fluttering sparrows. I mean the human world, society, culture, conditioning, call it how you want. The suggestions,...
Life Is an Optical Illusion
Life is like one of those 3D dot pictures (aka autostereogram). You can spend all your time looking at the dots, never seeing the image. Most of us spend our whole lives looking only at the dots. But if you stare long enough or know what to look for...
Stop Defending Yourself and Take the Hit
You’re not as smart/good/kind/beautiful as you think. If that rubbed you in the wrong way, then it’s because that’s part of your self-identity. I don’t mean that being smart/good/kind/beautiful is part of your self-identity (though it might be) but the...
The Two Most Important Questions to Ask Yourself
“Quietly yearning for what you don’t have while dreading losing what you do. For 99.9% of your race that is the definition of reality. Desire and fear baby.” — The Analyst, Matrix Resurrections (Yes, I'm quoting the Matrix movie no one apparently liked.) What do I...
Toward a Better Way of Being in the World
There is a paradigm of being that most people are not aware of. Many people feel offended when you question their current somnambulistic state of being. This is something I can and can't understand. I can understand it because defending,...
If All Else Fails, Love Yourself to Death
How are your attempts at self-improvement going? If I were to guess they’re probably somewhere in between succeeding at the expense of great effort or failing by defaulting to your default. Perhaps the problems started when you decided that you were not...
You Are Experiencing Your True Nature Right Now
Non-dual awareness is the essence of awakening or enlightenment. By definition, non-dual awareness is not something that comes and goes or needs to be evoked or otherwise made to appear. Non-dual awareness is your regular ordinary everyday awareness....
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