Indigenous knowledge isn’t facts and figures. It’s method and process. This is one of the reasons it can’t be written down well. It has to be handed from one person to another. It has to be discovered and integrated. You can discover it on your own, if you are able to drop all your preconceptions …
Author Archives: Zareen
Listen to Indigenous Voices
Listen to indigenous voices, native voices. We are in this amazing time right now where the internet, YouTube particularly, is allowing a new generation of indigenous speakers to start bringing forth their different perspective. Yes. I realized that this means not me. Right? Just think of the timeline we are on. White civilization came and …
What if Life is Hard?
What if life wasn’t meant to be safe and secure, and clean and perfect, or convenient? Could we deal with that? What if we accepted that stuff happens, and we can deal with it. Pure and clean isn’t always best. There’s a high number of kids these days who have allergies and they’re starting to …
I am not a Robot
So has anybody else noticed that signing up for things has gotten really, really hard? You know, you want to sign up for something and have to click, “I am not a robot. I am not a robot.” The thing doesn’t pop up and then when it finally does pop up it makes you choose …
How to Get Unbrainwashed
How to get unbrainwashed? The actual Secret is you can’t. Your brain’s purpose is to get washed. Its purpose is to easily fill up with things. It fills up with perceptions, and ideas, and words and stuff like that. That’s it’s job. You need it to do that. To prove this, let’s go ahead and …
Don’t believe everything you think
Don’t believe everything that you think. Thoughts are unreliable. They can go through your head in a completely random way. As a matter of fact, some of the mantras and chant that I have been working with are a perfect example. Go back through them and notice how these little songs get stuck in your …
Newsletter: From Aloneness to Aliveness
From Aloneness to Aliveness When we’ve been raised in the western context, with English as our language, we end up with a very limited set of tools to experience life. The result is an experience of separation: aloneness. The spiritual search can be a way to use our language and perception tools to manage this …
Om Gate Gate
Om Gate Gate. Paragate. Parasamgate. Bodhi Svaha.