I think that many of us imagine that there’s a point of Enlightenment where all of a sudden you’re perfect. You never feel another emotion in your life; you never have another problem. That’s a myth of Eastern philosophies that’s been used to control people. It’s similar to controlling you with the illusion of riches. …
Author Archives: Zareen
Nonduality making mistakes
Non-duality means you can make lots of mistakes, because that’s what happens in life, isn’t it? It’s not stepping back from being a human.
Logical thinking is a useful tool
Logical thinking is a useful tool to create less confusion in our lives. It’s not wisdom; it’s not intelligence itself, but it’s a fabulous tool for learning how to use our language and our thoughts beneficially, rather than letting them create chaos. Lots of crazy thoughts are going on in our minds all the time. …
Newsletter: Mind and Wisdom
This week we are exploring the idea that mind and wisdom are not necessarily the same thing. We can know lots of facts and yet not be wise. A person can be very wise and have no education at all. In fact, this is what non duality is always pointing at: that seed of wisdom …
The logical mind is not wisdom
The logical mind is not wisdom. Wisdom is something down underneath our ability to analyze and remember and sort things out. Logical people can be very smart. On the other hand, an illogical person is quite often an idiot, right? People who twist logic can be the worse! But that doesn’t mean that straight out …
Spirituality makes us better
Spirituality should be making us better people. Do we interact better? Do we see deeper, broader?
Logic is only a part of intelligence
Logic is only a part of intelligence, and by logic, I mean the rules that we use to manage our thinking. Think about this… One useful thing about it is that if you are managing your thinking, then the thinking is not the boss; it’s not in charge. You are managing it. Non-duality is about …
Thinking is not intelligence
Thinking is not intelligence. A better way to look at it is that intelligence does the thinking, it’s not the thinking itself. Although that’s still a shallow way of looking at it because that would be insinuating that you yourself, me myself, does the thinking. Thinking is way less reliable than that. What is Thinking? …