Nonduality points out the vicious loop of our brains, of our minds. You can’t find a lie from a lie. In other words… if there’s a basic misunderstanding about what life is, you can’t use that misunderstanding to understand what life is. I like to look at it in a historical context because that helps …
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Who is thinking?
If we change our attention from what is making us think a certain thing or what is making us feel a certain thing to who is thinking, who is feeling, then we’re grounded.
Nonduality has the answer to the spiritual search
Nonduality has the answer to the spiritual search because it has this simple message that basically says anything we think is wrong. Whatever you want to define – enlightenment, or awakening, or even what it means to be a human being – anything you think about it is wrong. That’s because the thinking about it …
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Humor is Healthy
Published: Sat, 10/28/23 The first thing we need to learn to change the world is to be able to laugh at ourselves. Imagine a world filled with relaxed, smiling people. Everything would be different. We’d be able to communicate with each other if we could laugh. And not a mean, bullying, laugh. But that sweet chuckle …
Doing something important with your life
I know several people who have spoken aloud that they’ve had a dream or they have this feeling, this idea that they are the one who is going to make the huge difference in the world. And come on, be honest, we all kind of have that a little bit, don’t we? That’s what I …
Overcoming the Jesus complex
Maybe you’ve never even thought of this. You probably have an idea that’s so deep down inside your belief systems that you’ve never even looked at it. But we have this unexamined assumption in the Western world, and Western spirituality, that what changes the world is one big guy. Like Buddha came up and he …
Talking yourself into anger
If you look closely at your interior self when you’re angry, or something like that, you’ll notice that you have to constantly talk yourself into it; otherwise, it just goes away.
How hard is it to change thinking?
How hard is it to change thinking, to really change the way that we perceive the world? It’s really not that hard. Usually, if we have something going on that’s not working in the way we’re thinking, then we naturally change. Think of a really simple example, like if you’re always angry at everything. There’s …