by Luka | Nov 23, 2024 | Consciousness, Philosophy, Spirituality, Transpersonal Psychology
In reality, as Zen reminds us, we are not horseman and horse, with a hiatus between the two. The true symbolic representation of man, in this connexion, should be the centaur, a single creature comprising two aspects separated by no hiatus. We are centaurs but...
by Luka | Nov 13, 2024 | Consciousness, Life, Philosophy, Spirituality, Transpersonal Psychology
Suffering can be difficult. Being taken on a ride of existential despair may feel like vacationing in a meat grinder. (That’s how I felt anyway.) But the pursuit of ending suffering can become its own biggest trap. The initial discontent and...
by Luka | Oct 30, 2024 | Consciousness, Life, Philosophy, Spirituality
Accept yourself. It’s the simplest and most profound, yet the most difficult and trickiest suggestion anyone can ever give you. It doesn’t need much to realize that it makes sense. Nothing makes more sense. But the moment you try to do it, you...
by Luka | Oct 18, 2024 | Consciousness, Spirituality
People think spirituality is about contemplating lofty ideas, like God and souls and consciousness and higher dimensions and flying spaghetti monsters and so on. But spirituality is really the most pragmatic, rational, down-to-earth business there is. ...
by Luka | Oct 2, 2024 | Consciousness, Life, Mind
When you look into a mirror, what do you see? You see a pile of flesh that we generally call a person. And this person in the mirror is the person you have learned to identify with. This person is associated with wishes, desires, fears, problems,...
by Luka | Sep 25, 2024 | Consciousness, Life, Spirituality, Transpersonal Psychology
Anxiety is modern society’s bread and butter. Social conditioning is the only reason anxiety is rampant in the first place. We’re conditioned to be anxious. If we had a bunch of psychiatrists rummaging around everyone’s psyches, most people could...