The true human is a natural state of being. We go there in moments of deep relaxation, and that’s why so many spiritual teachings use meditation, contemplation, and retreats where you can go and relax in order to help us find our inner being. So, the best thing you can do for yourself on the …
Author Archives: Zareen
Seeing Ourselves in a New Way
Seeing ourselves in a new way is the easiest way to open ourselves up to the true self, the living being who is down underneath your false concepts. Enlightenment is everyone’s birthright. If enlightenment is everyone’s birthright, then that means that human beings naturally live in this space. It only makes sense that throughout most …
It Only Makes Sense
It only makes sense that the entire history we have been taught is skewed, even outright wrong. We’re taught that civilization is what defines human beings. Archaeologists are out there digging around and finding out where civilization started, who started putting rocks on top of each other first. We like to find ancient scrolls… thinking …
Honoring Indigenous Knowledge
I’d like to point you to a really good video on honoring indigenous knowledge. It is a talk, a conversation between Connor Ryan and Tiokasin Ghost Horse. I’ll have a link to it down in my video and in the description. There’s also a link on my website, mprimer.com. They do a lot of talking …
Me! Me! Me!
Me, Me, Me That’s the world we live in right now, right? I mean, we could even call it the cult of “me.” From the day we’re born, we’re taught to be self-concerned. Look out for number one, you know, survival of the fittest. We’re taught, “my toys, my thoughts, my feelings, me, me, me.” …
The Most Important Parenting Strategy
The Most Important Parenting Strategy from a Non-Dual Perspective Don’t lie to your kids. You can think about that just from your own experience of being raised in the society that we’re in, and now trying to grapple with the craziness of your mind. That’s what we’re doing in non-duality studies, right? We’re grappling with …
What Would Our Ancestors Say?
What would our ancestors say if we could sit down with them today and learn? And I’m not talking about just our immediate grandmothers and grandfathers. Here today, most of us have gone through centuries of darkness—centuries where our ancestors themselves were living in the same confused state that we’re in. They’re the ones who …
The Majority of our Consciousness
The vast majority of our consciousness is not being used in today’s world. We have opted to turn off what you might call the silent part of our knowing in favor of the loud, what we would call the mind, the logical mind. But the logical mind is there to analyze what comes to us …