Listening to a teacher with open heart and mind is a skill that can be chosen. I know this because it’s a thing that I always choose to do, and it’s something that I see most the people around me resist. I always wonder why? Every single person I meet knows something that I don’t …
Author Archives: Zareen
What about chanting?
Words themselves are the problem. Everything that can be said is so unimportant, and yet it’s critical to contribute These days there is so much noise in the world, so much spiritual noise going on. All the time. It’s hard to add anything to it. Except for, like… stop it. Just stop it already, it’s …
Enlightenment Story
https://youtu.be/UU__yVyZpLM Here’s a bit of my story with Osho. This is just the nutshell. This is like the punchline. This is the highlight, but everything that comes up before it is really good and really important, too. Maybe I’ll get into that someday. It was January 19, 1990. I’m living in a small town in …
The Buddhafield
https://youtu.be/piBIyZniPqQ I thought I’d do a little bit more of my story, since some of it is pretty wild. So I’m living in a small town, in 1988 or 1989, in idaho. I’m not that far away from Rajneeshpurim, and Rajneeshpurim had shut down after Osho left. Basically many sanyasins were left homeless and they …
Understanding Non-Duality
https://youtu.be/s4EviAUF1sc It’s Not What You Think As long as you don’t know who you are you don’t understand non-duality — because “boom” right there there’s two things. There’s this mysterious “who you are” and there’s the “you” that is thinking about who you are. So what we tend to do is study. We’ll read all …
Enlightenment Exercise
https://youtu.be/WsDviymoWvQ Enlightenment is easy. It’s your birthright. It is just simply finding out who you are. Realizing who you are. Admitting who you are. You’re you. You’re nothing. You’re not that important. So I’m gonna just show you how to do it. A couple of rules to start out with First of all — you’re …
Introduction to Your Brain
I’d like to introduce you to your brain. Please note that all of this is new… and in the future there will be even more information. But today in our introduction to the brain we have the amazing experience of a neuroscientist who experienced a breakage in her brain hemispheres from the inside out. That’s …
Four Parts of the Brain
The brain I recommend that everyone spend some time reading and listening to what Jill Bolte Taylor has to say about the brain. I’ve included some links below. But here’s the most important ideas for our discussion. Four Sections There are four main sections to the brain, two on the left and two on the …