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• Recognize #20

  

  Addiction is a desire to be complete, whole, and happy. Likewise addiction is an aversion to that which engenders incompleteness, separateness, and... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #19

  Like two golden birds perched on theselfsame tree,Intimate friends, the ego and the SelfDwell in the same body. The former eatsThe sweet and the sour fruits of... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• The Razors Edge by Colin Drake

  

  The Razor’s Edge The Katha Upanishad urges the wise,To merge the mind into the Self and great peace,By seeing That in which speech and thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #18

  It’s Saturday. The weekend. Not to mention Memorial Day weekend. It’s a long weekend for many of us. We will have more free time.What’s the theme present in... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #17

  Relationship is the interplay of Oneness communing with itself.In today’s recognize post I’d like to share an exercise with you that should be helpful both for... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #16

  Love is the abscence of duality. Positively love is the unity or oneness of all apparent objects. Love manifests as compassion, humility, selflessness,... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #15

  

  Purple Thistle: Distractingly beautiful yet stingingly painful.(Plant ID care of 1LEFT, Thanks friend!)Today let’s look at a very common coping mechanism that... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #14

  

  There is an exit. We could call the exit recognition. There is this illusion in which we spend our waking days. It’s not so different from the dreamworld of... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #13

  

  Only when I think that I am does it have to mean anything.Clouds in the sky am I, form upon formlessness.The mind gives birth to thought. There is I am Hanuman... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #12

  

  Today I ran across a great passage in I am That that I thought was worth sharing.Questioner: All teachers advise to meditate. What is the purpose of meditation? Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize #11

  

  Sometimes we fall unconscious wherever we’re playing.Are we seeking consciousness? No, for conscious is not it. You are conscious yet at times you are... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize That You Are Only Awareness #10

  “The one thing about an adventure is: the adventurer wants to stay around and adventure. If he’s going to be crisped in the process there’s going to be no... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• The Example of Hanuman

  

  “When I know who I am you and I are one. When I don’t know who I am I serve you.”- Hanuman speaking to Rama, RamayanaHanuman the monkey servant of Rama and... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize That You Are Only Awareness #9

  I had planned to talk about specific practices that facilitate recognition of our essential nature in this post. But as I considered how I would approach this... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize That You Are Only Awareness #8

  In part eight of the recognize series I want to discuss the central point of difference which sets my message on Awareness apart from the popular view within th... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• “Free Will…Myth Or Reality” by Colin Drake

  Free Will … Myth or Reality?Free will … does such a thing exist?This is an age old philosophical debate.Yes, says the existentialist,No! Determinists and... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize That You Are Only Awareness #7

  After recognition what happens to the self-assertion? Does it fall away? Does it hang out to keep the awakened person company? Or, are so-called enlightened... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize That You Are Only Awareness #6

  Dictionary.com defines “Recognize”:1. to identify as something or someone previously seen, known,etc. 2. to identify from knowledge of appearance or... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Chewing Holes in Reality

  

  We pass through this life assuming everything is concrete. Then one day an anxiety arises and we question the validity of this assumption. Perhaps we intuit... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY

• Recognize That You Are Only Awareness #5

  Yesterday I discussed the analogy of looking into a mirror and what, if any, life that mirror image had. That reflection of your physical manifestation was... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 SPIRITUALITY