Sufism is a path of dissolving the ego, which is about becoming nobody. It’s not about becoming some big important thing. This is important to understand because it’s the number one way that Sufi practices can go wrong. We go wrong when we start thinking that our spiritual practices are about creating positive emotions and …
Category Archives: Die Before You Die
Thoughts Begin in Silence
In the Diamond Sutra, Buddha says, ‘Thoughts begin in silence’. It’s good to stop occasionally, pause and feel the beauty of what it is we’re looking for. Non-duality teachings can get very stuck in the head because what we’re trying to do is dismantle misconceptions we have about who we are and what life is. …
End of Words
So thanks to a commenter on one of my videos, I heard a new definition of Advaita Vedanta that I hadn’t heard before: ‘end of words.’ And this is perfect. Advaita is the word we use to define nonduality. It’s translated as ‘not two’ or ‘not dual’ (not two things, Advaita). What it means is …
What Happens When I Die?
So you’re probably thinking, “But what happens to me after I die? Like, come on, answer the question already, right?” Hopefully, you’ve been going through this entire series and letting the ideas soften the belief systems we have about who we are and how life works. Hopefully this is opening up the reality of who …
Where Two Gather
Jesus said, ‘Where two people gather, I am there.’ Maybe we can expand that idea a little bit by saying, ‘Whenever two people can actually come together, then a new unity has arisen. I am there. I am there.’ Each of us has this opportunity, all the time, to come up with different ways to …
Erachman Erachim
The 99 names of God is something we need to touch on briefly in this series. We’re not going to get deeply into it because that could be its own whole thing, but it’s a beautiful Sufi teaching. Instead of trying to say the qualities of God in large abstract terms, we talk about small, …
Its Not Just About You
This should be the number one thing in every spiritual study. It’s not just about you. One of the reasons that we do spiritual practices, and we talk about spiritual things, and we try to expand our consciousness, is so that we are more able to beautifully live with everyone and everything else. A good …
Lose Your Mind
The number one thing that you can do to help humanity move into the next step, where we can live sustainably on the earth, is to lose your mind. From a spiritual point of view at least. It’s our clinging to our minds, clinging to our false concepts, that’s causing us to be so nuts. …