We live in a very fast and noisy world, but we don’t always have to keep up that pace. Slow down and just be a human being as often as you can.
Author Archives: Zareen
Om Tare Liberation from Mind
Singing and dancing: Om Tare Tu Tare Ture Soha. With dance write up. Om-Tare-LiberationDownload
Green Tara Mantra: You Exist
So I find myself in the non-duality world in a very strange situation. Because very often I’m simply trying to convince people that they exist. A lot of people don’t understand that there are two stages to the non-duality search and you can’t stick in the first one forever. The first stage is the “Not …
Newsletter May 20, 2023
Lots of Nothing This week we are dealing with a whole lot of nothing. Mulla Nasrudine pulls a valley girl move, and we wonder about one hand clapping. In my experience, contemplating nothing is the best way to slow and stop the mind. And I don’t mean thinking about the idea of nothing, or trying …
Can’t Talk About Nothing
You can’t really talk about nothing because the very act of talking is something. The very act of giving nothing a word, naming it nothing, or zero, turns it into something. Both in in the words that I’m saying and in what you’re hearing me say. But what if the collective wisdom of humanity that …
One Hand Clapping Makes No Sound
One hand clapping makes no sound. Listen to it and calmness immediately comes over you.
Sound of One Hand Clapping
What is the sound of one hand clapping? This is one of the most important Koans given to students of Enlightenment. I have a couple of ideas about it I want to share. I don’t know for sure, you know, but it seems to me that the answer is obvious. First… what’s the sound of …
Simplicity in Prayer
In the end the thing that really matters is Simplicity. That’s what this story from yesterday is talking about. The Mystic is simply living out on the lake. The priests and the bishops come and try to teach him how to pray correctly, when he was out there just simply one with nature, one with …