Our Zen story for this week is The Prince Remembers. It creates the greatest picture in your mind of what the moment of awakening is like. When the prince suddenly remembers that he’s a prince all the years of forgetfulness fell off. He knew he was a prince. This enlightened moment is what you’re looking …
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What is the Nondual State?
You are a Participant
So here’s an interesting way to think about non-duality: You are sitting there watching a video on YouTube or maybe reading my webpage. What’s really going on? Our Western conditioning is that we are consumers of everything. Very likely things that I’m saying upset you. Often I say it unclearly, or I say it wrong. …
Zen says Don’t Be Confused
Zen is simply saying that you don’t have to be so confused. You can live your life in a simple way. In our story this week, about the Fertility Miracle, a woman comes and she wants to get a miracle because she is infertile. Her mother had come to this spiritual master’s teacher and she …
Stories and Myths
Human beings have been in a mental crisis for only a very short period of time. We’ve been around as just-about-complete humans for millions of years. For 80,000 years we’ve been completely “DNA Us” with brains working exactly the way that our brains work today. For most of that long, long time the way our …
You Can Change Your Mind
You are not your mind because you can change your mind. Just like you can change a tire on your car. You can change your mind. Well, hopefully you can.
Rules for the Enlightenment Teacher
Rules We have so many rules about what we want an enlightenment teacher to look like. What we want a spiritual teacher of any kind to look like. And there’s lots of problems involved with that. Number one, first and foremost is that you are going to miss the true teacher. Because as we’ve been …
Your Mind is Just a Tool
You are not your mind, because you can use your mind as a tool. Like think of something that is red. Then think of something that’s blue. You are the one that used the tool to do those different things.