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 …
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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.
Offering a Prayer
There’s a big difference in offering a prayer or praying to something. These are interesting things to think about because it opens our perception to who are we as human beings, and what are we are doing in this life. When we’re praying to something we’re imagining a being beyond ourselves. We are often asking …
The Mind and the Brain
Are the mind and the brain the same thing? Or two different things? Well if all is one, then there aren’t two things. So they are the same thing.
The Problem in Praying to the Universe
The problem in praying to the universe is that the idea of the universe doesn’t really create a feeling of gratefulness, a feeling of giving back. What could we possibly give back to the universe? It’s so huge. I don’t know how you see the universe but to me it feels like it’s cold, and …
Heart Sutra
The Heart Sutra is such a great story. It’s from a long time ago so we’re missing a whole lot of the details of exactly what happened. But in essence the bodhisattva wakes up. A sudden awakening and after, apparently it seems, years of studying. It seemed to be a practice of straining to get …