Let’s use the metaphor of a grocery store to understand attachments. In this metaphor, you go to the grocery store, but of all the food there, you only buy strawberries, steaks, and white bread. You’re so attached to these 3 items that you don’t even realize that there are other items of food to buy. […]
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In Alan Watts’s book, The Wisdom of Insecurity, he writes: “The miracles of technology cause us to live in a hectic, clockwork world that does violence to human biology, enabling us to do nothing but pursue the future faster and faster.” He also writes: “The perfect “subject” for the aims of this economy is the
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I know many of you have heard this before, but I’ll add my voice to the chorus anyway: Give up the chase for enlightenment. Now, I didn’t say to give up spiritual discipline. I didn’t say to stop coming back to awareness. I didn’t say to stop doing inner work. Those are the tools that
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There are spiritual experiences of all kinds, and they are all beautiful. Of course, there is one specific type of experience where something internally is awakened and re-shapes us. The one is what I call a spiritual awakening. But there is a problem. Actually, there are many problems, but the problem I want to point
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Western Society continues to encourage a trend towards a kind of hyper-individuality. Hyper-individuality is all about what one person can do “by him or herself” – which ignores the reality of our interdependence. The popularized idea of being a “Supermom” embodies this idea. This woman is expected to be able to be a full-time mom,
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