It’s the first day of a new week! As you settle into the rhythm of fresh beginnings, have you ever considered this – your entire life is a path to awakening? Every experience, every challenge, every moment of joy or sorrow, everything you go through holds the possibility of waking you up into the potential … Continue reading Say yes to life’s fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.
A message from today's meditation: What is coming your way this week? I love having a clear intention for my day and my week, but I also accept that there will be many things happening in my environment that I just don't have any control over and I'll have to choose whether these experiences help … Continue reading Use whatever has come, to awaken.
"The amount of stress in your life is determined by how much energy you expend resisting your life." - Gary Zukav In spiritual teachings "resistance" is a regular topic, and to understand the effects of what resistance creates within our bodies, it may be helpful to look at what resistance means in physics. In an … Continue reading Are you frying your wiring?
The biggest stumbling block to new meditators is the feeling, "but I can't get my mind to be quiet!" And the truth is none of us can, but the good news is, we don’t need to… We don't have to try and stop the thinking, but with practice we can more easily slip below the … Continue reading Stillness is not dependent on the mind being silent.
“As soon as you believe that a label you’ve put on yourself is true, you’ve limited something that is literally limitless, you’ve limited who you are into nothing but a thought.” – Adyashanti We do place labels on ourselves. Sometimes consciously and more often unconsciously... a little voice inside of us saying, "you are this... … Continue reading Have you trapped yourself by the power of a mere thought?
The topic of today's meditation is love and I'm sharing with you Adyashanti's view: "Love is a flame that burns, it burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of everything that is false, and the fulfillment of all that is true." - Adyashanti Surrendering to love, will dissolve in your life everything that … Continue reading …then you’ll realize you’ve just embraced the whole universe…
I LOVE Adyashanti’s ability to create a very simple understanding from what can feel so complicated and messy. You'd really do yourself a favour to do a search of his work and just read through some of his thoughts. "Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist … Continue reading If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad.
Letting go... or hearing the words, "just let it go" is one of those disservices we do to ourselves and others while meaning really well. It feels like the right thing to say but we all have our own moments of struggling with our own personal example of not being able to let something go … Continue reading How the f#@k do we let go?
The thirst for knowledge might be seen as the foundation of all human development. Knowledge has been revered by all cultures, past and present, with the creed of countless educational institutions based on some version of “Knowledge is Power”. Having knowledge is of course objectively a good thing, but there are two stories to tell… … Continue reading “Knowing” is the killer of consciousness.
