Who am I? That’s the big question. If you’re a person who’s working on answering that question, you have a more immediate problem: how shall I live? Because it’s really, really possible, common in fact, to get totally confused about how to live your life as you’re searching for who am I. It’s just so …
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The advantage of questioning
The advantage of questioning? Just think about how much stuff we’re told all the time to not question… at all. So many of our religions are that way. In a lot of Western religions it’s a basic tenet that you have to have faith. You’re not allowed to question. Uuuuuh, that’s not a good idea. …
Nonduality has the answer
Nonduality has the answer and the answer is… no. No, your thoughts aren’t real.
Nonduality says don’t search
Nonduality says, “Don’t search because there’s no point in it.” Any kind of searching is your mind looking for itself. You know, your thoughts looking for themselves. That can’t happen because thoughts constantly change. Thoughts are kind of like air blowing by. How can air look for itself? It’s like a river just flowing through …
Nonduality and the vicious loop
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 …
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 …