Originally written in 2011, today, I feel like adding to this post. Today being in March of 2021. I’ve saved the original so you can hear my voice from the now distant past (at least by human standards). In that post, I am primarily talking about the sandcastle in terms of the ego dissolution that […]
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Last Saturday, I was hanging out in a park in Berkeley. It was one of those days when I feel like free-writing. Free-writing, for those of you who aren’t familiar with it, is simply letting yourself write whatever. I write in such structured ways for most of my time that it’s a real relief and
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For most of our lives, a lot of us try to put a good face on things even when we feel awful. We end up using drugs and alcohol and even sports as ways to let out pent up frustrations and emotions. They’re more like steam vents; they let the steam out, but they don’t
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I hope to not get too many expectations set up with the title of this blog. I’m not going to tell you how long your awakening will last. Only you can do that. I am also not saying that you can control your shifts when I use the term “managing.” Instead, what I’m speaking to
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I like to talk about the muck of the spiritual path. The real muck. Not the “oh my knees hurt from this 7 hour, silent meditation retreat” difficulties. Those to me are potentially silly. They potentially are escapist spirituality of the worst kind. But I’m getting ahead of myself, and I’m not intending to devalue
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