How do you tell if someone is truly awake or not? This is a question that comes up a lot in groups. The reason people are always asking this question is because they want to find somebody that’s not going to suck them into a cult, or steal their money, or fool them in some …
Category Archives: Chats
The same old thinking
We all know the saying: “You can’t create a new paradigm using the same thinking that created the old paradigm.” But what do you do? You’re stuck in your paradigm, and the number one thing that keeps us in that paradigm is our language. Like right now, I’m writing and I’m using English. It’s the …
Filtering the universe
The entire universe does not filter itself through your perceptions, so ultimately, it doesn’t matter what you think.
Balance
Balance. It’s not a solid thing that you can create. Balance is always a movement, like riding a bike. That’s how I like to explain it. You know? You get that feeling when you’re on a bike of how the forward motion keeps the back and forth sway from falling over. Balance is something that …
Newsletter: Finding Harmony
This week’s newsletter is late because we danced this weekend. Bringing harmony and balance to the world in Montana. It can feel tricky to find harmony because we don’t actually “find” it. Harmony is already there. We just need to attune ourselves to it. Harmony takes the full body and mind, other people and nature. …
We Danced in Montana
The best way to come back into harmony is to get in a circle and dance. It only makes sense… Being in harmony by yourself is not possible because there is nothing to harmonize with. Being in balance by yourself, the same, is not possible. And besides, it’s being in harmony with other human beings …
A thing is a thing
The whole thing is a thing. That’s all non-duality, and Eastern teachings are trying to tell us: A thing is a thing; what’s not a thing is not a thing. What’s funny about it is if I was some really rich, you know, an important spiritual teacher up on a chair in front of a …
Harmony and nonduality
You, me, everyone is always in a non-dual state; there’s no other possibility because two things are not happening, there’s only one thing happening. We can only just imagine this duality, and we get stuck in it, and then it amplifies our actions. When we act out of this belief that things are divided, then …