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May 2012
- The belief that's here
- Christ with a sword
- Byron Katie & Love
- Mini-inquiry: The best is for me to not be more healed
- If you don’t attach beliefs to it
- We only feel fulfillment if we are genuine
- I am an exception
- Show me the stone which the builders have rejected
- Mini-inquiry: Innocently accused
- What hears the sound?
- Dream: Cross country skiing
- Nausea
- Without a story.... you're not anything
- How I want a specific person to treat me
- Reincarnation and soul
- Who would I be without my spiritual identity?
- Mini-inquiry: One life is not enough
- Mini-Inquiry: I want life to be easier
- The truth is no respecter of spiritual concepts
- Mini-inquiry: Ghosts
- Dream: White wolf
- Mini-inquiry: It's terrible to die a violent death
- Open to energies of others
- Mini-inquiry: Suffering is terrible
- Dream: War
- It's pain, it's pleasure
- Absent of I
- Mini-inquiry: What's nice will end
- Dream: Innocently accused
- Who would I be without my story of light and dark?
- The dark side of the sacred
- Beliefs and addiction
- Byron Katie's story
- Someone not giving me what I want
- Go to the deepest suffering
- Dread
- The Book of Job
- Super Moon
- Inquiry: It's wrong to live an unhappy life
- Inquiry: I need resolution
- Your nothingness, everythingness, and somebodyness
- Donations
- Inquiry on rejection
- Complaining
- Spirituality and seeking perfection
- Stability practice and inquiry
- Dream: Out of Norwegian dreams
- Phony
April 2012
- Question any thought
- Wishing for a permanent solution
- Inquiry: People won't want to hear what I have to say
- Exploring tiredness & vitality
- A Single Eye
- Ho'o
- Oneness is different from merging
- Until you love your family without conditions
- Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension
- Article: A hidden world, growing beyond control
- Beliefs brought to the Surface by CF
- Study: Psychological Trauma & Whiplash
- Dream: Conversation after death
- The Purpose of Precepts
- The Subject Becomes an Object
- The Work & Sense Fields
- Enlightenment is a shift in paradigm
- Dark Night
- Alan Watts: The Silent Mind
- Shifting relationship to life
- Our parents, our children, our spouses, and our friends....
- I am.....
- Currently
- How is it possible to believe a stressful thought?
- BBC Witness: Dissidents declared mad
- Life will bring us everything we need
- Article: My Decent into Hell
- The wounds that will heal me
- Reality is enough
- Mutuality of Inquiry and TRE
- Dream: Ladder to Heaven
- Question Three and TRE
- Eyes of the World
- Half seen through
- Turnarounds
- Your medicine
- Inquiry and shaking
- Quadruple rainbow from July 2011
- A study in angles and ochre
- Inquiry: I am a disappointment to God
- Session with Barry - God will abandon me
- Dream: Father of a son
- Clarification
March 2012
- Tamed
- Whether it’s your thinking or my thinking, it’s the same
- Dream: Hooded figure
- Ho'oponopono
- Inquiry: My best years are behind me
- Inquiry: It's a dark night
- Imagining what's on the other side of inquiry
- Devon
- Influence
- Three Meanings of Thought
- We do not need solutions....
- We live as if we are champions for suffering
- What if everything you have automatically assumed as true.....
- Is it true I am not enough?
- The Artist
- Heartache
- We must be willing to let go
- There is no one alive who is Youer than you
- Writing from and for the most unclear parts
- I don't think for other people
February 2012
- UFOs
- Moon
- We attach to....
- Interpretation of experience
- Cafe Zoetrope
- A Friendly Universe
- Inquiry: She shouldn't suffer
- Zen Dog
- What if I had planned this life?
- Wheel of life
- Aging
- Nutty, dork, weird
- Absent of I
- Some immediate outcomes of inquiry
- Observations, facts, stories
- Water
- Be Right or Happy
- Interpretation of experience
- Quote on soul mates
- Deeper fear, layers of beliefs
- Kate Bush: Snowed in at Wheeler Street
- What's imagined beyond inquiry
- A Murmuration of Starlings
- Appreciation for the beliefs through inquiry
- Using levels and types as pointers
- No two people ever loved each other
- Jehovah's Witness
- Love and Worried Love
- Ask yourself what makes you come alive
- Wish for nonexistence
- Imagine beliefs in others
- Inquiry on teacher
- Inquiry on teachings
- Asking
- Talk vs Inquiry
- Dream - Guest Blog
- I have had the privilege of losing everything
- Inquiry on the thought that's here
- Am I OK with not feeling OK?
January 2012
- The kindness in what appears unkind
- God
- Oregon
- Something else is better
- Wholeness
- Metaphor
- Inquiry: I am a special case
- Abandoned in a dark room
- Loneliness
- Alchemy
- In the beginning...
- Tip of the iceberg
- Mysteries and miracles
- A friendly universe
- Dream: Elevator
- Why complicate life?
- Fear!
- All the money in the world
- Squeezing myself with my beliefs
- Imprints beyond thought?
- The deeper message of the crucifixion
- Ideologies in therapy
- Deep Ecology & Kant
- Dream: Reviewing, remembering a life
December 2011
- Feeling love, being love
- My Will, Thy Will
- The shift into a yes
- The worst loss
- Currently
- It's from the past
- Yawning and inquiry
- Projections
- Abuse of power
- Tension and beliefs
- Shrink
- The New and Old Ways
- Big Mind Process
- Turnaround on Teachings
- How would it be to be open for anything?
- It can only block your awareness
- Free to travel limitlessly
- Water that's too pure
- Thoughts create my world
- Admitting I don't know
- The things I think I need before I can do something else
- Inquiry on father, mother, sister, brother
- The only protection that’s ever going to exist
- TRE & Inquiry
- Learning to be a natural animal
- Emotional beliefs
- Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe
- Kate Bush: Wild Man
- Not buying into the stories
- You are the cause of all the suffering
- Doing The Work on Dreams, Fairy Tales and Movies
- Tantrums
- Power dynamics
- What and who
- Love filtered through beliefs
- The Work and Cognitive Therapy
- Wanting inquiry to do something for me
- Reality
- Head, heart, belly
November 2011
- Inquiry about the future
- Dream: Japanese doctor
- Vacuum
- Gamification
- The Work on sustainability
- Until you see the world as innocent....
- We can't change our thoughts
- If you believe....
- Breathe, feel, turn it over
- If you have a problem, you must have the solution
- Dream: Obstacle Course
- The One Percent
October 2011
- The ego as a best friend
- Appearance of an I
- Abstract thinking in evolutionary perspective
- I am nearer to you than yourself to yourself
- Resistance is doing its job
- There is an I here
- Is it true?
- I am enjoying the drama - is it true?
- Prayer
- To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world
- Headless interview with Anne Seward
- Dream: Lost house
- The most supreme act of devotion
- Facts about the 1%
- Water analogy
- An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy
- Brian Eno: Flint March
- Documentary: Friendship Seven
- Adyashanti: Reality is what didn't go
- The Occupy Wall Street Movement
- What will carry us into living freedom....
- Inquiry: I need to survive
- Why did the dark night happen?
- To undo one belief is to undo thousands of years in time
- Childhood wounds
- Logical and irrational
- The Guest House
- Where the focus goes
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell
- Inquiry: Suffering has value
- Awakening is one thing....
- Is it true I need it to go away?
- Doing a full worksheet
- Inquiry: It's dangerous to speak up
- The love you seek
- Jeff Foster on absolute and relative
- Ram Giri: Ask for what you want
- How can I be happy without a future?
- We fear only what we haven’t understood
- What do I hope to get out of this belief?
- Marry yourself
- What I am most afraid of losing, is....
- My prescription for him
September 2011
- John Welwood: Human Nature, Buddha Nature
- A Course in Miracles
- Statements about inquiry and truth
- Advice from Big Mind on inquiry
- Big Mind on taking thoughts as true
- Karen Richards - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
- Beliefs vs reality: Advice from Big Mind
- Revolution
- Jeff Foster on depression
- Not only see Reality but *be* real
- Inquiry: Suffering is valuable
- Inquiry on a dream: Russian anarchist
- .... is more important than truth
- Finding underlying beliefs: She is doing it wrong, and I can't tell her
- Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa
- A deeply human process
- That which seeks a way out
- Neurogenic tremors as a simple, basic human activity
- Exploring (apparently) unpleasant experiences
- Closing off love
- In a bind
- Everything you are unwilling to surrender
- Consequences of not living your truth
- Doing The Work on outcasts
- Tim Minchin's Storm
- Other people will mirror back to you
- Objectifying
- The pitfall of good identities and ideals
- I need.... to be happy
- I wish I could show you
- You should stop
- The dance of duality
- What do you know that you don't want to know
- Adyashanti: Territory of Freedom
- Clarity and healing
- Percolate
- Feeling good
- Evelyn Underhill on The Dark Night
- Squeezed
- Dismembered vs. dissolved
- Ranking love
- High and low
- A-ha: Hunting High and Low
- Coming into alignment with reality
- Kundalini process
- Happy birthday Bill Monroe
- Your imperfections are perfect
- Alan Watts: Boat and wake
- How terrorism is successful
- Beliefs cannot hold their ground when faced with reality
- Any story that you tell about yourself....
- Inquiry: It will never change
- When you give people credit for who they really are
- If you knew how important you are....
- Taking motives to inquiry
- Adyashanti: Being free in prison
- Inquiry: Fear exists
- Inquiry: Beliefs are powerful
- I'm just someone who knows the difference.....
- "The Work is teaching denial"
- Spirituality as refuge
- Byron Katie - Turn It Around
- The ego's job is to kill everything but itself
- Interview with Adyashanti
- David Sylvian: Words with the Shaman
- More evolved vs. better
- Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination
- Hypersensitivity and thoughts
- Self-correcting process
- Your medicine is whatever appears now
August 2011
- Everyone shifts when you shift
- TRE & The Work
- Love is the first ingredient
- Finding 2012 here
- Johnny Cash & June Carter
- Interview with Tom Stine
- Judge Your Neighbor worksheet on a specific situation
- Taking time with inquiry
- Uncensored inquiry
- Inquiry and intention
- Writing JYN worksheets on another
- What I fear the most about.... is....
- What do I do in my body to believe a thought?
- Imagining his stories and finding them here
- Inquiry: She blocks me
- OK Go and The Muppets
- Poverty is internal
- TRE update
- Thoughts creating the experience of tiredness and hunger
- Video: TRE in Argentina
- Healing without diagnosis
- Björk interviews Arvo Pärt
- Movie: Polar bear releasing tension through neurogenic tremors
- Interview with David Berceli
- Loneliness in the dark night
- John Black: The Hole
- Terrorists and more
- The School for The Work
- Slaid Cleaves: This morning
July 2011
- Summer photos
- Structured training
- Three forms of resolution following breakdown of the old
- What I resist is the gateway?
- El Collie on prayer
- What's hearing?
June 2011
- Too painful then, so painful now too
- Awakening process
- Everything you're running away from is simply freedom in disguise
- Food bubble
- El Collie: Branded by Spirit
- Drawn to death
- Soul Awakening: The Journey from Ego to Essence
- No personal will?
- Poem: Unraveled
- Inquiry: My parents didn't stand up for me
- Inquiry: Nobody likes me
- Why do things "go wrong" during a dark night?
- If I wanted this, why would I want it?
- We are all five-year olds
- Inquiry: I am slow
- Movie: The Economics of Happiness
- Inquiry: It's a core wound
- Inquiry: I need to destroy MoE
- Inquiry from the perspective of a subpersonality
- Makes sense also in an ordinary psychological way
- Richard Lang on the private and public
- Core wound
- Inquiry: I didn't want to be born
- Flavors of not wrong
- Dream: End of one phase, beginning of another
- Rewiring of the heart
- Practice: Following life
- Exhaust yourself in trying to escape what is
- Adyashanti: Basic Principles & Application
- Insights
- Futility of escaping or fixing
- Crucifixion
- Adyashanti: Conditioned patterns and their beliefs
- Kindness
- Dark night reversals
- Jeff Foster: Addictions, Relationships and The Search For Completeness
- Night experiences
- When bothered by something out there, find it here
- From gratitude list
- Personal and collective
- Headless experiment: Grab your two ears
- Inquiry: I am a human being
- Inquiry: I am not well
May 2011
- Confused parts surfacing
- Asking and listening
- Inquiry: There are two wills
- Feels completely ordinary
- The process is endless, so what happens when it's identified with?
- Omniscience etc.
- TRE, cf and dark night
- Clarity and confusion, one within the other
- Rumi: The Guest House
- Energy drawing
- Tiny public sculptures and alignment with reality
- Identity and subpersonalities
- Inquiry: I want something from this situation
- Identification and solidity
- Inquiry: Emotions reflect reality
- Inquiry: I can own something
- Judgment day
- Grain of truth and healthy impulse behind a belief
- 15 ways thoughts can be out of alignment with reality
- Giving it over to the divine
- Meeting our confused parts as we would meet any being wishing for clarity
- Dark nights
- Losing what I relied the most on
- The world as a mirror in several ways
- Inquiry: Thoughts exist
- Dialog with a part that wishes the best for me, and has used the strategy of taking stories as true
- Types of awakening
- Surface to find clarity
- I get it, you don't
- From witnessing to being
- Reality knowing itself vs experience
- What's the underlying and innocent wish behind it?
- The divine takes over
- Meredith Monk: Impermanence
- Cannonball sprouting
- Bitter:Sweet - The Bomb
- TRE and play
- Allowing, inquiry and TRE
- New Age as stepping stone
- Knowing you know
- TED: 9/11 healing - the mothers who found forgiveness & friendship
- Embracing what's disowned in the field
- Medicine
- Happening inside
April 2011
- Variations on allowing experience
- Confessions
- Adyashanti on dissolution of identity
- Reality
- Oneness and its discontent
- We do what's easy and attractive
- Is it true that what I am fraid of isn't already here?
- Building capacity
- Coming to clarity by way of delusion
- We may think we're being scientists.....
- Underlying beliefs
- Atheist etc.
- Inquiry: My way is better
- Adyashanti: Going through your shadow side
- Inquiry: Awakening will control states
- Loneliness
- Adyashanti: Mind puts a barrier up and thinks it has to get through it
- Inquiry: Life is wrong
- Backward step
- Adyashanti: Life will do everything it needs to do....
- Adyashanti: Fear of death
- The impulse to escape experience
- Inquiry: I need to escape experience
- A visualization from Anthony de Mello
- More clear, more pain when out of alignment with reality
- Anthony de Mello on waking up and responsibility
- Adyashanity: What's not aligned with truth falls away
- Face to no-face interview
- Mystery
- Adya on immensity vs. intensity
- Befriending fear
- inquiry: Is it true it's gone?
- David Christian: Big History
- First orbit
- First space flight
- Your task is not to seek for love....
- Inquiry as escape
- Coming home
- Is it OK if it's small?
- What is sangha?
- Buddhist relics
- Inquiry: It's better to be receptive, curious and have a sense of shared exploration
- Inquiry: What I expected would have been better
- Inquiry: I am a nice guy (so people should like me)
- Bright light, dark shadow
- All-inclusive gratitude practice
- Befriending death
- Inquiry: She is irratonal
- What's insight?
- Inquiry: It should happen sooner and faster
- Inquiry: Something terrible will happen if I surrender
- Inquiry: Something is not right
- Love filtered
- TRE and Inquiry
- Free up to follow inner guidance
- The wealth gap and it's dangers
- Mysterious pull
- Going into the shadow
- Inquiry - thoughts, awareness, feeling
- From realization to being
- Inquiry: It's endless
- Is there anything positive in a belief?
- The cat's purr
- Even keel through shifts
- Refuge in beliefs - how safe is it?
- Twelve step #1 - We admitted we were powerless over beliefs
- Twelve step program - Believers Anonymous
March 2011
- Inquiry: Being confused is reserved for people who are not teachers or therapists
- Inquiry: No pain, no gain
- Sensations and interpretations
- How would it be to live as if this is a dream?
- Belief - fear
- What I describe is myself
- Interviews with David Berceli
- Dreams: Being each one, and dissolving
- Inquiry: I need suffering to learn
- Inquiry: There is something positive in delusion
- Inquiry: Drama is juicy and rich
- Befriending beliefs
- Inquiries: drama is rich and juicy, we always get what we want etc.
- Adyashanti on terror
- It is said that men may not be the dream of gods....
- Inquiry and meditation
- Pupa
- Mirror both ways
- Befriending oneself
- Layers and veils
- Beliefs related to spirituality
- Inquiry: Insight is better
- Ascetic and tantric
- KC and the Sunshine Band: Shake Your Booty
- Dialog with Big Belly
- Inquiry: I shouldn't disappoint others
- Dream: A path with a heart
- Trauma
- Dream: Old graves
- From realizing to being
- BBC: A History of Christianity
- BBC: Wonders of the Universe
- Dream: Russian anarchist
- Very rarely....
- Inquiry: Something is wrong
- The unembraced seeks embrace
- Inquiry: It's better to be alive
- Comfort the disturbed, disturb the comfortable
- Mini-inquiry: Maverick
- Dream: Mortal and vulnerable
- Sting: Tomorrow Will See
February 2011
- Allowing and being it
- Dream: Friends with Clint and Dale
- Always in motion is the past
- Ho'oponopono
- Genpo on the Big Mind process
- Inquiry: They should ask for help
- Currently
- Dreams: Prayer and innocently accused
- The Saga of Bjørn
- Past lives as a way of unfolding what's here
- Healing it here
- TRE Update
- Mini-inquiry: They should listen to advice
- Taboo
- When you squeeze an orange
- Adyashanti: The existential drive to truth
- Mini-inquiry: She should speak normally
- Deep Space Network: Zenn La
- Projection of awakening
- The whole situation of life
- What do I think will make me happy?
- Dream: Leading a TRE workshop
- Movie: Journey of the Universe
- Reminders
- Dream: Friend with the Queen
- TRE - Tension and Trauma Release Exercises
- Khaled: Mauvais Sang
- Why we fight
- I am already doing to myself what I am afraid other people will do to me
- Documentary: Something About Mary Magdalene
- What do I not want to see?
- A shift into being it
- Why beliefs create stress
- Rehearsing stories vs. seeing through them
- Appreciation
- Dream: David Copperfield isn't performing
January 2011
- God is a pool shark
- Inquiry: They are narrow minded and conventional
- Journey of Man
- Radical, and radically simple
- Inquiry: They are naive
- Meditation and brain changes
- The words you speak
- Attention goes to knots
- It takes effort to believe
- A new question
- Misreadings
- Geirr Tveitt: Vélkomne med æra
- Taking any story as true
- Django Reinhardt: Belleville
- Dreams: Contrasting states
- OK GO: Back From Kathmandu
- The Wisdom Jesus
- Whoever drinks from my mouth will become as I am
- Inquiry: They are gullible
- Gratitude update
- The shadow - what is it?
- Inquiry: They are insane!
- Inquiry: CF is stopping me
- Chrysopoeia
- Why I am 13.7 billion years old
- Same pay no matter when we join
December 2010
- Dream: Apocalypse
- Dreaming analogy
- Make Miracles in Forty Days: Turning What You Have Into What You Want
- The weirdest people
- Day and Night - Pixar
- Toy Story 3
- Dream: War
- Byron Katie: The Gift of Criticism
- Gratitude for all
- 2012 revisited
- Inquiry: They are misguided
- Free teleseminar: The Advent of Evolutionary Christianity
- Falling Into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
- The Troll Hunter
- Forms of darkness
- Which direction is God?
November 2010
- Dream: Adopting
- Jac O'Keeffe: What does the I still need to experience?
- Two-way mirror
- If the only prayer you say is "thank you"
- Construction zone
- Held in neutrality
- Sex! - note: this post is not what most of you are looking for ;)
- I Ching - Kun / Exhaustion
- A map: Some phases and facets of the path
- Brian Eno: Always Returning
- But when Moses rose higher and became more perfect, he saw God in the darkness
- Byron Katie: I want the cancer to stop growing
- Larger than the largest Santa's elf gathering....
- Childhood nightmare - luminous black - diamond
- Anis Mojgani: Come Closer
- Interview with Jac O'Keeffe
- "Hurricane" Carter
- Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill as audio book
- A more fluid inquiry, and going back to when I first had the belief
- How have I been spared? Why is it wonderful?
- Whatever is, be it
- Cocoon
- Doing inquiry from the age when you first had the belief
- Taking responsibility and the Dark Night
- The Story of Job and more
- Documentary: Shroud of Turin
- Haunted house
- For all beings
- Relationships
- Monaisms
- My genetic journey
October 2010
- Forms of darkness
- Adyashanti: Whatever you want, be it
- How to make dark nights easier
- Byron Katie - Life is a Dream
- Churning thoughts, flow of emotions
- Inquiry: It is wrong
- May this benefit all beings
September 2010
- After death
- Inquiry: He should use a wider perspective
- Become all flame
- Silliness
- Bringing attention to
- Doing judge-your-neighbor worksheets in daily life
- Basic goodness
- Atheists and images of God
- Finding where I agree
- A more wise choice
- Play with stories, and then find it here and now
- If couldn't fail and no unpleasant consequences, what would I do?
- Needs
- God's will
- Exploring space and time
- Falsification in inquiry
- Inquiry: The should use full-cutoff lighting
- Time
- Meredith Monk: Dawn
- Currently
- Inquiry: I need
- Clear on stories and priorities in relationships
- Sun Electric: R-Gent
- The I story as one packet
- Byron Katie: Your Inner Awakening
- Inquiry: It's OK to suffer, b/c I need humility
- Inquiry: Suffering is good for me
- Need for love
- Inquiry: That is better than this
- Himalaya: Tinle's Death
- Conditioning
- Doing The Work on and with another
- Monstrous Discrepancies
- Adyashanti & Almaas
- Life has very high standards, and no standards at all
- Taking a step back or two steps forward
- Mystical experiences vs recognizing reality
- A bubble of neediness
- Adyashanti: True Meditation
- Inquiry: I need M. to understand me
- Adyshanti: All thinking is conditioned
- The fruition of truth
- Adyashanti: The Cause of Suffering
- What is desire?
- Losing and finding ground
- Jeff Foster: An Extraordinary Absence
- Sequrity and freedom
- Taking care of own desires, and happy for the happiness of others
August 2010
- FGTH: Relax
- Hardwired for truth
- Focus on the most basic desire
- Arvo Pärt: De Profundis
- Release of others
- Varieties of self-love
- Layers of love
- I love you -> I love how I feel when I am with you
- The me is happening to no-one
- Loneliness
- Evolution and fit
- Book: Don't be Nice, Be Real
- Blog: You Are Not So Smart - A Celebration of Self-Delusion
- Keep noticing within any state
- Desire
- Transparent specimen
- Chosen one
- Knot of loneliness
- Playfulness, wisdom and a toy piglet
- Noticing is not dependent on a state
- 100% selfish
- The World's Happiest Countries
- Allowing that which is most difficult to allow
- Fascination with the unpleasant
- Prayer
- Worldviews: Epic of Evolution & Fundamentalism
- Picky eaters
- Trinity
- How do I exclude myself?
- Douglas Harding: You are not what you look like
- I am willing to let people I care about suffer
- Exploring what appears as most unenlightened
- Kila
- Layers of alright
July 2010
- Well deserved
- Dream: No one experiencing
- Die Young, Live Fast, and compassion through evolutionary psychology
- Mysticism and mystery
- Simple, not easy
- What do I prioritize?
- Trying to not hurt someone
- The habits of the universe
- No absolute truth?
- Random reflections from the intensive
- Old locomotives
- The gifts of mistakes
- Justification and fullness of stories
- Trick teachings
- Podcast: Idolatry of the written word
- The World at Night
- Mistakes and disobedience
- Making ourselves smaller
- Inquiry: They shouldn't systematically and deliberately act they way their superiors want
June 2010
- Influenced by past lives
- Inquiry: The shouldn't use babysitting mentality
- House on fire
- Raccoons
- Rumination
- Taking responsibility
- Thoughts cannot help realization?
- Chronic fatigue
- Dream: Smoothly running, robust, organized chaos
- Grotto
- Awakened or not - no, it's not that clear cut
- OK Go: End Love
- Stepping stones
- Quantum physics and evolution as pointers
- Trinity
- Podcast: Written in code
- Inquiry: I need life to go my way
- Inquiry: Life is not going my way
- Atheist spirituality
- Clarity looks sane
- Blog: The Website of Unknowing
- Article: Your Brain on Computers
- Others know something fundamental about life
- Ways to work with ruts
- Born into a religion
- Movies and voice dialog
- Religions and their commonalities and differences
- TED: Brian Cox on why we need explorers
- New podcast series from Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow
- Projections of me and I
- New and fresh
- Not happiness
May 2010
- Meeting people where they are
- Happiness
- Taking responsibility
- Dream: Misguided idealists
- Marin Marais
- Ghost patterns
- OK Go: This Too Shall Pass
- Homunculus
- This blog
- Movie: Headless Experiments
- Medicine, and medicine for the medicine
- Ongoing processing
- The advice is for me
- Simplicity = alignment with (a) what is most important to me and (b) reality
- Prayer: Let this change me
- Forgiveness
- Quick boost in well-being from outdoors activities
- Sunday May 2, 2010: Global Mosaic
April 2010
- Drunk history of Nikola Tesla
- Magic Mushroom Research
- Rigidity = humor
- Why The Work works ii
- Notice, shift, do
- SDO: The Sun
- If I could decide the content of my own dreams
- Acknowleding the truth in beliefs
- This is it
- Documentary: Wonders of the Solar System
- Let Your will be done
- Gifts of projections
- God and reality
- Fundamental view on ourselves and reality
- No escape
- Invictus
March 2010
- Music: Palestrina
- Moralizing
- Don Quixote
- Values in Action
- Inquiry: I should feel better
- Socialist sheep
- TV: Replicating Milgram
- Inquiry: They shouldn't let ideology go before people
- Inquiry: I need life to go my way
- Research: Meaningful conversations make people happier
- God hath given you one face
- BBC Horizon: Is everything we know about the Universe wrong?
- Music: David Sylvian & Holger Czukay
- Three facets of spirituality
- The Work and sense-field exploration
- Sensation facet
- Resolving a difficult matter
- Article: The Great Prostate Mistake
- Book: Another Science Fiction
- Evolutionary dead ends and failed experiments
- Reflections on personality
- NEO PI-R
- NEO PI (ii)
- Movie: The Hurt Locker
- Documentary: Fusion
- No new stressful thoughts?
- Finding resolution here as well
- Questioning assumptions
- Types of beliefs
- How we label what we don't quite understand
- Cooking as a force of evolution
- Why does attention go to what bothers us?
- PBS: The Human Spark
- Inquiring into the beliefs of others
- ExistenceConciousnessBliss
- The benefits of beliefs
- Justice and the brain
- Evolution, biology and environment
- Evolution and a more pragmatic relationship to stories
February 2010
- Gathering up past, future, and present
- Fatigue, and surfacing beliefs
- Inquiry: It's too late
- Greenhouse
- The process of inquiry may be deceptive when seen from the outside
- Inquiry: I need it to be witnessed
- Inquiry: They should be more realistic
- Inquiry: I am an object in the world
- Inquiry: I need to make a good impression
- Inquiry: He should approach with curiosity, not cynicism
- Inquiry: Norge går feil vei
- Inquiry: Jeg er norsk
- Inquiry: I should have a legacy
- From lead to gold
- Olympics
- Documentary: Meredith Monk
- Inquiry: The are making themselves more stupid than they are
- Is reality kind?
- Thought and energy
- Spirituality as escape
- Currently
- What's on the mp3 player
- Inquiry and healing & maturing
- Why does The Work work?
- Song: If I didn't have you (someone else would do)
- Stories as tools
- Simplicity for simple minded folks
- Getting our priorities straight when it comes to health
- Brain and boundaries
- Inquiry: He shouldn't overgeneralize
- Inquiry: I need it to be resolved
- NEO PI
- How do you accurately predict Olympic medals? Not by looking at the athletes.
- Research on The Work
- Identification and swings
- Making use of what is here
- Fear -> Belief
- Granny goggles
- Strong state and volunteering
- Addictions and reversals
- Dream: SETI
- Dream: Adventures on Nesodden
- Arvo Pärt - Sanctus
- Living in the present
- Dying young
January 2010
- Forgiveness
- Axe Cop
- Dream: The cosmic is the cure for the mature human
- Arvo Pärt: Te Deum
- Reversal lists
- Nondoing - doing or noticing?
- Continuum thinking and culture change
- Dream: Jewish family
- Teaching Buddhism in prisons?
- Happy birthday, Django Reinhardt!
- Bottle Bank Arcade
- Happiness and satisfaction
- The Secret Life of Chaos
- Insults and reason
- Stereolab
- 13.7 billion years
- Lessons from the Blue Zones: How to live longer and healthier lives
- Inquiry: It is better to question assumptions
December 2009
- Gentle exercise, and gradual capacity building
- Why this blog?
- Inquiry: All here is tremendously silly
- Maxwell Butte
- Biographies
- Self-indulgent, and also universal?
- Byron Katie: A Thousand Names for Joy
- Creating a problem, selling the solution
- Book: How to Be an Existentialist
- Honesty and the historical Jesus
- Inquiry: They should give a medal, not prosecute
- Food choices
- Secular and spiritual dark nights
- Book: The How of Happiness
- Babysitting, or two steps more
- American Museum of Natural History: The Known Universe
- Illness, and then shame
- Dream: Siv Jensen
- If everybody knew
- Myths about awakening
- Wired: More of us are nearsighted
- Wolf!
- Compassion and meaning through the story of evolution
- Jackie O'Keeffe
- Ann Druyan: At Home in the Cosmos
- Universal health care and prevention
- Significant mirrors
- Chronic fatigue update
- Dream: Two friends publishing
- Dream: Racing around in an electric car
- Shaking up boundaries
- Tom Atlee: Evolutionary Activism
- Allow, change, notice
- Darwin's Brave New World
- Why so fascinating?
November 2009
- Friends of Michael and Connie
- Jill Tarter on SETI
- Humanity as the Earth's defense system
- That's-not-right nativity
- SF Chronicle: Health Care Lessons from Europe
- Samvær
- Sårbar
- Oprah visits Denmark
- Inquiry: Their priorities are wrong!
- Creating our own dilemma
- Free will
- Knots and reimagination
- Fearful world
- Jonathan Haidt: The real difference between liberals and conservatives
- Are We Alone? Podcast episode on SETI
- Cruel game
- Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow: The Big Integrity Model of Evolutionary Spirituality
- If we don't know its function, it must not have one
- Michael Dowd: Humanity's Rite of Passage
- Mr. Monk and living up to an image
- Not speaking up
- Cherry-picking from the Bible
- Happiness, and lots more, is contagious
- Each experience is an invitation
- Boring
- Don't want to admit it to myself
- The existence of God
- Inquiry: They create a tempest in a teapot
- Uncle Jay explains the news
- Inquiry: They should question their own opinions
- Simple explanations
- Julia Child recreates primordial soup
- Blasphemy day
October 2009
- Letting go of techniques
- Wired: An Epidemic of Fear - How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
- The Sun: Who will heal the healers?
- Dream: No matter
- A more level-headed approach II
- To the point
- Indexes of thrivability and well-being
- A more level headed approach
- Inquiry: Trying to change is better than leaving
- Inquiry: It is better to produce than to enjoy
- Prisencolinensinainciusol
- Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation
- Inquiry: They are too caught up in ideology
- Stable attention and pointers
- Inquiry: I need it to happen
- Opening up or closing down
- Maps and pointers
- No formula for forgiveness
- Inquiry: Something is wrong if I lose what is important to me
- Humbling
- What is identification?
- Invitation to let go of anchor points
- Godless society
- Inquiry: They lack good judgment
- Big Mind TV - live this week!
- Mysticism Scale
- Noticing and identification
- Big Integrity Movement
- Inquiry: They are irresponsible
- Healing and maturing beyond the mirror
- Obvious bias
- The gift of advaita
- Imagining sight
- Making it easy and fun to do what is right
September 2009
- Inquiry: Finding what is more honest for me is better than belief
- Inquiry: Clarity is better than confusion
- Inquiry: He is out of touch with reality.
- Beliefs and ambivalence
- Do undoing
- Nature is Satan's church
- Identification, distance, space
- What I see is what I am
- Common sense use of tools
- Stable attention
- Darwin's complex loss of faith
- Fear of truth (iv) - fear of not taking a story as true
- Simple changes, big effects
- Ideologies as stepping stones
- Essensual
- Inquiry: Noe er galt om de er sinna på meg
- Guided missile
- Fear of truth
- Tiredness
- The energy of others
- Come back many times
- Misdirection
- Gifts of not knowing
- Origin stories and a sense of distance
- Arvo Pärt - De Profundis
- Meditation: Noticing what we are
- Flavors of fundamentalism
- Inquiry: I need to stay alive
- Sounds of Jupiter
- Inquiry: I need to feel good
- Longing
- Boring, repetetive, abstract
- Noticing symptoms
- Arvo Pärt - Sanctus
- They don't care about us
- What is right about fundamentalism?
- Healing invitation
August 2009
- Evolutionary Evangelists Podcast
- Your Inner Awakening: The Work of Byron Katie
- Glue for attention
- Reversals
- Currently
- Inquiry: Noe er galt med denne følelsen i kroppen.
- Love how I feel
- Balance
- Energy drawings
- Love of beliefs and reactivity
- Beliefs and fear as love
- Inquiry: Noe er galt om kroppen føles tung og sløv
- Kautokeino-Opprøret
- Inquiry: Something is wrong if my heart is closed
- Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
- Passio
- What happens after awakening
- Emotions as guides
- Caveman Logic
- Inquiry: It's a lunatic asylum
- Big Bang in two minutes
- Acting on fear, and feedback
- The Way of Selflessness
- Adaptogens
- Science and spirituality
- Healing
- Inquiry: That makes no sense
- Inquiry: They are supremely silly
- Exclusion and a narrow view
- Dream: Traveling around, doing things
- The infinite richness of working with just one habitual pattern
- Humbling process
- Changes
- Self-conscious in two ways
- Awake in two ways
July 2009
- Inquiry: That's a poor, small, and limited life
- Advaitatoons
- Living without a story
- Creation
- Ignorance is bliss
- Not what it appears to be
- Appearing to go backwards
- Dream: Death sentence
- Practices and talks as distractions
- Prayer is worth more than ten dollars
- One taste and island practice
- Exploring subject and object
- Divine mind
- Digesting experience
- Cosmology as pointer
- Practices emerging
- All awake to itself
- Breath as inquiry
- Choiceless awareness as inquiry
- Any practice has elements of inquiry, devotion, integrity and service
- Defenders of the one true dharma
- Reality demanding more than we can give
- Using inquiry to confirm a position
- Feedback from myself and others
- Living in integrity
- The benefits of belief
- Love for the sense of self
- Exploring emotions II
- Detachment
- Exploring emotions
- Sell your cleverness
- What changes with awakening
- Veils
- Coming from glimpse, love or wants
- Michael Jackson at Motown 25th anniversary
- Island practice and fear practice
- Michael Jackson
- Actor analogy
- Enlightened to a thought in two ways
- Inquiry: It's just entertainment!
- Islands of density II
- Islands of density
- Stories and phenomena fall apart
June 2009
- Although eating honey is a very good thing to do
- Shinzen Young - Six Common Traps
- One function of practices: to trigger beliefs
- Inquiry: I can't take a year off (and live at the cabin)
- Inquiry: Stories have only temporary and practical value
- The Work in daily life
- Expectations
- Truth or Buddhism
- Prayer w. true meditation and self-inquiry
- Live up to your attainment with care III
- Live up to your attainment with care II
- Live up to your attainment with care
- Prayer of Surrender
- My grace is sufficient for you
- Quiet voice
- Currently
- Asking helpful questions
- Freedom to be deluded
- Liberation is retroactive
- Being completely normal
- So that I no longer exist but God does
- Living a lie
- Looking at beliefs that block action
- The backward step
- When the mouth opens, all are wrong
- Notice when identify with a viewpoint
- Zlatko Sudac
- Choiceless awareness as inquiry and devotion
- Any advice is for myself
- Mysticism in the Eastern Church
- Comfort as priority
- An Interview with Simone Weil (movie)
- All sins are attempts to fill voids
- Our imaginary position as the center
- The Times of Harvey Milk
- I need to know!
- Dream: Freedom outside of and within stories
- Thomas Berry (1916-2009)
- The Dhamma Brothers
May 2009
- Spiritualization of matter
- Free will?
- Whoever among you becomes a child
- When with others, as if alone
- Judgment day: You may be going to Hell
- Maps as statistics, truth, refuge, temporary guide etc.
- Maps as questions
- Carl Barks animations
- Inquiry as devotion
- Attraction and aversion
- Two forms of radical
- Memento mori
- Inquiry: They should use a broom!
- The link
- The eyeball that cannot see itself
- Same timeless present
- Awake to itself as form and ground
- Veils
- Mystery
- From "have to" to "want to"
- Emotions and energy
- Inner peace
- Having all the answers
- Exploring the doer and observer
- Inquiry: I need to live up to an image
- Still Point
- Geoff Marcy - public talk
- Copartner
- Seven basic principles of magic
- Inquiry: He should be more respectful
- Not neccesary, but sometimes best option
- Dreams of death
- Getting up
- Iwo Jima
- Seeking refuge in stories
- Support of torture among the faithful
April 2009
- Inquiry: They shouldn't cry wolf
- Insulted?
- My days are numbered, and the difference when I think I know that number
- Death
- Inquiry: That's idiotic
- Fear
- Why do bad things happen to good people?
- Agnostic
- Inquiry: He should appear more normal
- Confession
- Rebirth
- Tightening and loosening knots
- Ways to work with the dark night
- Youniverse Film
- Head, heart, belly
- Shifting refuge
- The mistake
- Conditioning
- Need a little help
- Flavors
- Living our history
- Whoever has found a corpse
- When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished
- Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar
- He who made the inside
- The solitary
- Split a piece of wood
- I shall destroy this house
- Whoever believes
- Cornerstone
- What you do not bring forth
- Tail of the ox
- Examining contractions
- All seeking, a seeking of God
- Precepts
- Michael Palin Interviews David Attenborough
- Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
- Inquiry: They can make it simpler
- No Self in several ways
- Disappearing self?
- The taboo against not knowing
- Squeezed
- Truth will set you free
March 2009
- Bøygen
- Boundary between I and other
- Mindfulness, including of doer and observer
- Shift
- Sin?
- Two lines
- Forgiveness
- Björk interviews Arvo Pärt
- Teachings as entertainment
- Inquiry: They should give better advice
- Taboo and inquiry
- World of images
- You have too much fun breaking all the rules
- How one form of love becomes another
- Intelligence
- A few resources
- A thought experiment: What if could chose content of dreams?
- Happening within and as awareness, and with awareness peering out
- Befriending reality
- Sobering process
- Clarity and surrender
- Inquiry: This cup is from Japan
- Finding beliefs
- Mother Meera
- God is a superstition
- Enlightened or not to a thought, and never know in advance
- Wisdom and beliefs
- The gifts of inconsistency
- Talking about Atma Vichara
- Radio Adyashanti
- Happy up here
- Life is a test, deceptive and a school
- Clarity of knowing I am doing it for myself, and all is OK
- Mental field and communication
- Last footholds
- Struggle
- Stories, clarity and Ground
- Kaiten sushi journey
- Appreciation as pointer
- Guidance from any dream
- Everything depends on perspective and scale
- Aware = free will?
- Active imagination & daily life
- All as God?
- Fireworks
- Atheist mystics
- Going further
- Personal and collective
- Personal and not
- Living our past
- A more practical approach
February 2009
- Emotions and identity
- Dream: Meals for everyone
- Magic
- Already know
- What is identification?
- What is it that identifies?
- Awakening and further
- Whatever the "I" is doing...
- What's happening
- Interview with Richard Lang
- Emotions as invitation to let go of identifications
- Letting go of past, future, present
- Feeling more real
- Enlightenment is retroactive, and so is innocence, kindness, wisdom, and lack of suffering
- All stories translate to "God"
- Regrets
- Stitching together
- Clarity to allow and change
- Sane, even in the most ordinary way
- Conventional views keeping it real
- Lies and truth
- Living a lie
- Gifts of impermanence
- Don't look outside of yourself
- Energy drawings
- Inquiry: I need them to respect me
- World of images
- I am somebody who...
- The End of Your World
- Wholeness
- In my opinion
- Inquiry: Something is terribly wrong
- Asking an emotion how it views the world
- Let Your will be done
- Don't work
- Edge effect
- The many uses of audio teachings
- Evolutionary Times
- Funnel
- All for me
- Being present
- Witness and Ground
- I am not... and yet am
- Many tools, each one sufficient
- You are That
- Doer
- Hollow earth
- Sincerity
- Mystery and not
- Expectations = plan
- Beliefs and emotions
- A felt sense of all as God
- Observer
- Many worlds, one being
- 2012
- Inquiry: It is noble to suffer.
- Not if but how
- Already know
- Clarifying longing
- Longing to know itself
- Sacrifice
January 2009
- No present, in two ways
- Experience of time
- Love of God, truth, what is
- An ant on the plains
- Forgive oneself
- Own world of images
- Synchronicities
- Anja Garbarek
- No trace
- Volume buttons
- Taking care of things w/out the drama
- The Obama Poster
- All is truth
- January 20th 2009
- I get it, they don't
- Aligned with reality
- Resistance to don't know
- Exploring that sense of I
- Organizing for America
- WordPress housekeeping
- Disco and funk
- Let Your will be done, and alignment with reality
- Basic gestalts
- Some things about stories
- Resistance creates the appearance of what is resisted
- donations now accepted
- Arne Næss
- Nothing will come from nothing
- Everything you know about God is wrong
- Politics and word clouds
- Everything you know is wrong
- Nothing ever happens
- Mimic, notice, reveal
- Flavors of love
- Zen cooking and desires
- Ping Pong
- Dream: Homeless man
- Magic tricks
- Demystifying and mystifying
- What am I missing?
- Resistance and allowing
- Dream: mortified
December 2008
- All the world's a stage
- Joker
- The nativity as a dream or teaching story
- Reading level: Elementary school!
- Seeing the Earth as a whole
- How are you?
- Don't take it as true
- A pointer and not
- Buddhist fundamentalism
- Upgrade
- Tara emerging from a rock
- Stephan Bodian: Wake Up Now
- From the digital attic: music I made in my teens
- Holiday specials
- What is Buddha?
- As insubstantial as a thought
- Compassion as art
- Baffled
- Reincarnation as projection, guide and question
- Snow!
- Norwegian resistance and two thoughts in the head at the same time
- Too many bottles
- Benefit of the doubt
- Not one & not two - no thing & something
- Big Mind process as inquiry and pointing out instructions
- Layers of experience
- Always a beginner
- Stories as questions
- Teachings as supplements
- Forms of clarity
- Crazy talk
- Actions show what I act on, what is a priority for me
- Holmenkollen
- Bias against simplicity
- Mind made in two ways
- Generosity
- Innocence
- Evaluating teachers and teachings
- Two beliefs: to the situation and to acting
- Max Manus
- Beliefs and dehumanization
- Deep patterns in movie preferences
- Two forms of motivation
November 2008
- Clarifying and channeling motivation
- Himalaya
- Kidney stone Entertaiment
- Choice from more clarity
- Heart intelligence
- Layers
- Morphine and finding right here
- Both sides of the street?
- Aurora borealis
- Seeing ourselves in others ii
- See ourselves in others
- Stories as true and not
- Waking up out of stories
- Gratitude
- World as mirror
- Appreciation and differentiation
- Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue
- Meredith Monk: Cave Song
- A world of images ii
- Activity and who & what I am
- Exploring "politically correct"
- Truth
- Mari Boine: Goaskinviellja & Gula Gula
- Teachings as pointers
- Thank you
- Inquiry: I know
- A world of images
- Distracted
- False identities
- Relating to a specific thought
- Relating to thoughts
- Simple and juicy
- Slideshow
- Flavors of present
- Identification with identities
- Buddhist four phase map of awakening
- Reverse synchronicity
- Tendrils
- Absent of i-dentification
- Flavors of don't know
- Flavors of disidentification
- Inquiry: He is a new age charlatan
- Clarifying intention
- Exploring fear
- Seeing ourselves in others
- Your Money *and* Your Life
- Travelers and explorers
- Sleepiness in the sense fields
- It is gold, so why wait?
- Seraphim Falls
- More informative election maps
- It's not fair and not right
- Imaginary
- So general it can be applied to anything
- Love as content and not
- My [anything]?
- Turning it around to myself
- Politics and personality
- Welcoming the fear behind beliefs
- Welcoming the feeling of a doer
- Asking for it
- Iconic Obama II
- Iconic Obama
- The qualities of hate
- Shift in flavor
- Energy drawing
- Do not rebel like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you
October 2008
- Allowing and felt sense inquiry
- Feeling beliefs and emotional attachments, and welcoming the feeling of fear behind them
- Awakening wants to go everywhere
- What leads up to awakening
- Flavors of allowing
- A felt sense of allowing
- History is what somebody wants us to think happened
- Emptiness of...
- Inquiry: They are barbarians
- Following ones heart, and discomfort
- Dream: Silver key
- Dropping into the luminous black
- Inquiry: They make it difficult for me
- McCain-Obama Dance off
- When practices don't work
- Projections and the path
- Pointers for relating to the path
- Gateless gate and goals
- What am I koan & tools for exploration
- Light - not just a metaphor
- Energy drawings
- I did that
- Liberation
- Volume buttons
- Exploring a sense of doer
- Color TV and dreams
- Dream: African American woman
- Currently
- Rolling Stone: Five Myths About John McCain
- Resisting resistance
- Clarity in two forms
- Take on me: Literal version
- Breaking down or growing up
- Using 10% of our brain myth
- Antidotes to fundamentalism
- Double turnaround
- How do I relate to life?
- Picking up the gifts of demons
- Fascination with doomsday scenarios
- Process Work and the one-sided coin
- Childhood dream
- Exit polls
- Facets, paths and tools
September 2008
- Poll trends
- The Work as relationship work
- Sarah Palin
- Earth heart
- Facets of reality
- Orientations helpful for practice
- Ways of doing demon practice
- demon feeding and similarities with other practices
- Reasons
- Effects of demon practice
- Lying-down meditation
- Liberation
- Finding what is left
- Feeding Your Demons: Ancient wisdom for resolving inner conflict
- Homunculus
- Dream: Baby Buddha
- Ways of relating to demons
- Aspects of demon feeding
- Freedom through form
- Cycling through
- Surrender
- Reincarnation - all happening here now
- Deny me three times before dawn
- Taking the effects of beliefs as support for beliefs
- Listening for the genuine question
- Beliefs taking Big Mind into its service
- Migration done
- How would I feel?
- Inquiry: I am not leaving
- Galveston 1900
- What do I imagine they will say?
- Inquiry: He shouldn't tell his students to avoid news media.
- Is it gone?
- Experience of time
- Nowhere to lay his head
- Feeding your demons
August 2008
- Imagining the beliefs of others
- Tug of war
- Free to meet people where they are
- Dream: Insight
- Inquiry: The bad guys shouldn't have the last word
- Double turnaround
- A felt sense of all as God
- Thoughts as an interface
- Inquiry: It is my birthright
- Inquiry: He should open the door for me
- What is not OK about this?
- Inner and outer teacher
- A thief in the night
- Ego
- Inquiry: He shouldn't expect me to be quiet
- Inquiry: They shouldn't pave me over
- Inquiry: Discomfort is not OK
- Reasons for doing inquiry
- The Work and role playing
- Inquiry: They shouldn't protect wolves
- Inquiry: They shouldn't make sharks into shadow objects
- Sense of me hanging around
- Different relationship to stories, same process
- Inquiry: They shouldn't contradict the Bible.
- Inquiry: He is a stupid gorilla
- Functions of healing
- A natural process
- Inquiry: My hand should not have five fingers.
- Inquiry: Good human beings believe in things
- Inquiry: Something terrible can happen
- Inquiry: Dread means something terrible will happen
- Escapist entertainment as a guide
- Self-judgments as guide to underlying beliefs
- Meaning
- Inquiry: He shouldn't make it (appear) wrong.
- Teachers as models or annoyance
- Teachings as medicine
- Allowing as an open secret
- Inquiry: They should use open source software
- Not agreeing
- Auras and sense of center
- Getting familiar with the lack of drama, then curious about how it plays out
- Interface
- Soul level and Ground awakening
- Inquiry: He should teach differently.
- Awakening and insight
- Shaken up
- Fresh words
- Listening to teachers
- Remembrance
- Awakenings
- Longing
- Always only scratching the surface
- Working with
- Love filtered
- What everybody and nobody wants, and clarifying
- Inquiry: They shouldn't sidetrack by bringing in 2012
- Dream: reuse in the bay area
- Inquiry: He shouldn't use a fire & brimstone approach
July 2008
- Attention as a guide
- Cues for identification
- Vacation
- Dream: Kiss on the cheek
- Beliefs more important than life itself
- The Jesus story
- Open medicine
- Doing it for appearances
- Cue to take as more substantial
- Flavors of tools not working
- Flavors of nondoing
- Dream: Taking over my father's house
June 2008
- Dream: Flying
- Facing death, and growing & waking up
- Dream: Amnesia, secret project and soul mate
- Lonesome path?
- For the benefit of all beings
- Dream: Friendly lion
- Compensation
- No escape
- Recent dream theme: a slow, steady trickle of death
- In what ways a dream?
- What does it mean if there is no other?
- Ideas about the process
- Exploring what I am
- State independent
- Firefox 3 released
- Running out of options
- Functions of gossip
- Wanting to be right, in two ways
- Reasons for growing and waking up
- Retreat re-entry
- Motivations, and growing & waking up
- Investigating stories before and after awakening
- Oxygene 2
- Not a teacher?
- Blocks to the path, as the path itself
- Inquiry: She shouldn't distort the views of others (Bernadette Roberts)
- Receptivity
- If it was a conscious strategy
- Inquiry: He shouldn't assign views to me
- Setting aside discursive thought?
- Hoping to get something out of it
- Working with teachings
- Bernadette Roberts
- Growing and waking up, and reasons for practice
- Reasons for practice at the levels of who & what we are
- Sense fields at the levels of who and what we are
- Ordinary as who and what we are
- Charles Schwab story continues
- From special to ordinary
- Being nobody
- That anything exists at all
- Inquiry: He should teach in a way that makes sense to me
- Flavors of doing it for myself
- Working with death
- Illness and knots
- What to look for in - and how to work with - a teacher
- Only God
- Well-wishing and social anxiety
- New book from Almaas
- Disentangle
- Sensations as a test
- Inquiry - unfolding from where people are
- Inquiry: Life is not fair
- Feel awareness
May 2008
- Inner smile
- The color of words
- Offering tools for working with beliefs directly
- A flytrap, and also some misconceptions
- For future martians
- Constructing reality
- Shadow work example
- Bamyan Buddhas
- No closer to really understanding
- Mutuality of beliefs and distraction
- Two masters
- The single eye
- WordPress Update
- Oat breakfast
- Sauerkraut!
- Conditioning
- Flow & Capacity
- Altered state
- Flavors of one and many
- Downfall
- Dimensions of allowing
- Exploring space
- Tong len
- Inquiry: They shouldn't reject the Big Mind process.
- Inquiry: Americans take pride in being stupid
- Voyage to the planets, and to a thrivable future
- Verbal prayer
- Filtering in inquiry
- Precept practice
- Obama
- Reinventing the wheel
- Dream: Inseparability of ground and evolution
- Intension, tension and moods
April 2008
- Exploring sleepiness through the sense fields
- Intention
- Middle man
- Nutritional supplements may not always be that good for us
- The Universe Story: Yes, And..., and also Who & What
March 2008
- Bandon
- Michael Dowd in Oregon!
- Who speaks for Islam?
- Journal on vacation
- Eckhart Tolle at Oprah Book Club
- Open Source and Creative Commons
- Anomalies
- Torture doesn't work?
- Fully, in three ways
- Somebody is, is it me?
- Dream: Recruited to unmask international drug trade
- Into the Wild
- Ohayo
- Being special
- No escape
- Mutuality of practices
- Meeting people where they are
- Just a story? Yes, no, and Lila
- Trust
- Yes, And...
- Shikantaza as practice, and not
- Exploring sense fields
- Fearless
- From our foreign correspondent
- Sobering
- Personal DNA entertainment
- Karma
- Lack and sense of wholeness
- Inquiry: It is better if they don't project on me.
- Fake it until you make it
- Forever is a very long time
- Pompel & Pilt
- Allowing content
February 2008
- Medieval tech support: Scrolls to books
- Inquiry: It is better if I get what I want.
- Inquiry: It is better to be clear.
- Fish connections
- Additional questions for The Work
- One in a hundred in prison
- A closer look at meaning
- Anatomy of meaning
- Inquiry: It is better if they don't think this is how/who I am
- Impostor syndrome
- Dimensions of practice: Universal and specific to where we are
- Dimensions of practice: inside and outside of stories
- Dimensions of practice: alone and with others
- Dimensions of practice: self and other powered
- Dimensions of practice: inner and outer teacher
- Dimensions of practice: who and what we are
- Dimensions of practice: goal and exploration
- Exploring from the inside and outside of stories
- Erased lifestyle boundary between Christians and non-Christians
- Stoic vs. clear
- Blogisattva Award winners
- Inquiry: It would be better if Americans were less stupid.
- Nostalgia for samsara
- Working with body symptoms
- Dream: Antartica
- What I can know for certain
- Inquiry: It is better without customer service/tech support hell.
- Eckhart Tolle online class for Oprah's book club
- Inquiry: Life shouldn't prevent me from doing what I want
- Lila as inquiry
- Human self as the finger pointing to the moon II
- Human self as the finger pointing to the moon
- What Ground awakening does and doesn't do, and what practice does and doesn't do
- Blogisattva Award Nominees
- Shadows of a sense of separate I
- Vulnerable animal
- Forms of prayer
- Hara hachi bu
- Flying Sasser
- Persepolis
- What if we could choose our dreams?
- Urban food growing in Havana
- Dream: needs to work itself through
- No biography to write?
- Sensations as anchor
- Spiritual Blog Reviews
- God as tech support
- Approximate stability practice
- Finding myself on the other side
- History of Mysticism available as ebook
- Big Brain theory
- Koans
- Misunderstanding is sometimes more interesting
- Mistakes as part of the process
- Food pragmatics
- Lookin' good for Jesus
- Inquiry: They are too tame.
- No value beyond the practical
- Insomnia
- Why are stressful beliefs stressful?
- Finding the spark
- Visual insights into the candidates
- Finding support in exhaustion
- Not juicy enough
- Synchronicity: Are you Jesus?
- Inquiry: They should sit still.
- Noticing content as awakeness
- Doing it for ourselves
- Resistance within experience
- Synchronicity: shadow of ethics
- Inner and outer truths
- Visualizations
- Energy hole and hara
- Becoming like children
- Dream: Orcas in the water
- Embodying turnarounds
- Living the dream
- Unless you become like children
- Inside and outside of stories
- Not going far enough
- "Ego" here now
- Archetypes here now
- Being a tool of stories
- Inquiry: He shouldn't use the word "ego"
- Why I am not a fan of MoE
- Dream: A mountainside in the Himalayas
- Not stage specific
- Pino D'Angio
- Inquiry: It is better to not filter Buddhism through New Age and Christianity.
- Inquiry: It is better to not rank teachers
- Reversals of precepts
- Receptivity of heart, mind and feelings
- Inquiry: I am not qualified.
- Inquiry: They shouldn't present it as so difficult
- Inquiry: If it is alive for them, they would use their own words
- Inquiry: It is better if they differentiate history and teaching stories
- Excitement in noticing hangups
- Karma
- Buddhism for Dummies
- Gaining insight from the content of accusations
- The benefits of following the chains
- Exploring the chains
- Inquiry
- Milarepa: Magician, murderer, saint
- Awakeness noticing itself or not
- Currently
- Mystery
- Book/Divine Mind analogy
- Speaking up for (really) radical relativism
- Two ways of relating to stories
- Tim Freke short video
- Second coming of Jesus
- Identification with stories
- Aspects of tong-len
- Attachments
January 2008
- Working with dreams
- Benefits of going to my local spiritual group
- Generating statements
- Felt sense
- Turning the other cheek
- Dream: People think I can help them.
- Rationalization
- Stories about The Work
- Wanting to be right
- Synchronicities
- Cloudiness and sense fields
- If the universe is friendly
- Looking at a thought from its outside and inside
- This blog
- Any statement is a question
- O'Brien's turnaround
- Sense of center
- Dark nights
- Boundaries vs. clarity
- She is me, I am them
- Turnarounds in real time, and one reason we seek teachers
- How I got into The Work
- Ego as love
- Fear, then love
- Pulling the rug out
- Forms of inquiry
- Buddhist Visions
- Karma and reincarnation as teaching strategy
- Life as a teacher
- Buddha
- Joy, discomfort, neutral
- Working with body symptoms
- Inquiry: It is too contrived.
- Arrogance and an open heart
- Anatomy of voices
- Dentists, sense fields, nostalgia for samsara
- Inquiry: That was a lame, dime-a-dozen, story
- Compassion independent of a feeling
- Three centers and stupidity
- Sensations as anchors for subject and object
- What happens when something is resisted?
- Allowing and shifts
- Don't get more than we can handle?
- Being with body symptoms
- What is revealed beyond resistance
- Likes and dislikes
- Free to dislike
- Moving at the three centers, and in life
- Meeting others where they are
- Don't exist?
- Inquiry and three centers
- Inquiry: They shouldn't be so fear driven.
- Blessed are the meek
- Fear of being the reversals
- Inquiry: They shouldn't have closed the RoundRobin.
- Inquiry: People should know how to take care of their animals.
- Allowing and the three centers
- Inquiry: She should have done a better job.
- Inquiry: They should make it come alive.
- Mistakes and No Mistakes
- The two year dog
- Nostalgia for samsara
- Inquiry: Abundance is followed by decline
- Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine...
- Suffering
- Final release
- Inquiry: Norway should be as exiting as the US
- Inquiry: The US should be as civilized as Norway
- Thank God for Evolution promo video
- Powers of Ten
- Buddha Dog
December 2007
- Allowing it to work on me
- Ground and buildups
- Collective layers
- Inquiry: They shouldn't make it so impersonal.
- Dream: Knife through a block of paper
- Thoughts
- Dream: House with changing stairs
- Inquiry: It's too predictable
- Heart practice
- Noticing movement away
- Relief of truth
- Choice
- Meaning
- Anchors and moods
- Mutuality of stability and insight
- Counterintuitive ideas and evolution
- Frost and sun II
- Stability practice
- Oneness v. selflessness: a world apart
- Being with
- Come in order to leave
- Frost and sun
- Reversals of teachings
- Laika and more mirrors...
- Strategy or phase
- What our human self really wants, and awakeness noticing itself
- Discovering new music
- Its own antidote
- Happening to/for/as me
- Doing it for myself
- Ripple effects
- Relationship to stories
- Journeys and belly center
- Befriending fear
- Inquiry: They should have it resolved.
- Stangeland's Tea
- Photo: Frognerparken II
- Dream: beyond my horizon
- Three layers to the experience of time
- Ghosts and shadows
November 2007
- Photo: Frognerparken
- Precariousness
- Caught up in details, missing the big picture
- Made in God's image
- Gifts
- Awakening dependent on content, and not
- Belly center
- Jesus Christ
- Wisdom
- Inquiry: It should have lasted longer
- Upsides and downsides of energetic and soul level buffering
- Where two or more are gathered
- Relationships we cannot so easily escape
- Is war neccesary to get things done?
- Leave no trace
- Food & a breakfast recipe
- Mechanisms of samsara
- Photos: night in Portland
- Dream: Wounded God
- Inquiry: They are superficial (and that is not OK)
- Forms of identification and disidentification
- No rules, yet good to have a seasoned teacher
- Disidentification and identification
- Psychology & spirituality intertwined
- Death and what continues
- Evil and beating the head against the wall
- The three centers revisited
- Difficult to talk about, but not because it is an unusual experience
- Dream: Oriental medicine in medieval Scandinavia
- Adding the self/other dimension to the integral practice map
- Private & public
- Koan: withered tree
- Not happening to anyone?
- Dream: Irish wedding
- Inquiry: It should be resolved. (Before it is over.)
- Confusion
October 2007
- Transparency of thoughts
- Rationalization and reversals
- Inquiry: They shouldn't see me as lost.
- From private to shared
- Inquiry: It is life 101.
- What comes up
- Allowing and owning
- Reasons to do inquiry
- Inquiry: It is obvious.
- Relating to effects of beliefs
- Psychedelic fun
- Filtered appreciation
- Inquiry: I shouldn't have lost my passion.
- Inquiry: They shouldn't recruit using lies.
- Inquiry: People shouldn't eat popcorn while watching movies
- Inquiry: I get it
- Inquiry: Inquiry is a mind game
- The relief of truth
- Inquiry: I need to follow my inner voice
- Inquiry: They shouldn't babysit
- Ancestral work: my father's father
- inquiry: They should have more perspective
- Richness of edges
- Dream: in trouble for humming
- Inquiry: I need to know what will happen
- Inquiry: KW shouldn't be stuck in a macho attitude
- Inquiry: I shouldn't be compulsive
- Fundamentalism
- The Work in different contexts
- Inquiry: My life should nurture me more.
- Bringing all of us in
- Turkey, genocide and identity
- Gender and fluidity
- Simple language
- The Work and owning the shadow
- Shapeshifting
- Inquiry: inquiry is annoying
- Seeking inquiry partner
- Myth of the Given and The Work
- Inquiry: The Work is blind to the myth of the given
- Surface judgments in the aqal world
- Unhealthiness in the aqal world
- Photo: plant w. seeds
- Aspects of communication
- More people awakening today?
- Not just you
- The persistence of zombies
- Photo: Oak Leaves
- Layers of release and harvesting of nutrients
- Sleep
- Spark: inner and outer transformations
- Hdr examples
- High dynamic range photography: a simple how-to
- Chased by our wholeness
- Entrance ticket: being willing to appear foolish
- King of Kong
- A more fearless theology
September 2007
- Top US official: I hate all Iranians
- 10 questions about Buddhism
- The gifts of ancestors
- Kate Bush documentary
- The gift of troublemakers
- Being right or being at peace
- Photos
- Computer thief moron
- Christianity and Buddhism
- Love filtered
- Not knowing in two ways
- Narcissism
- Consciousness in two ways
- Spirit animal
- Marcel Marceau
- Thank God for evolution!
- Dream: travelling on the ocean currents, and changing industry
- Creation stories and projections
- I know, you don't
- Creation of space and time, and projections
- More obviously unique
- Thoughts and space
- Wolves and perspectives
- Stuck in the absolute and the perfection of it all, preventing us from more fully appreciating the perfection of it all
- Ban on holy dots and other silliness
- Allowing in two ways
- Alex dead
- Visualizations
- Quantum Koans
- Energy drawing
- The unmanifest awakening to itself, and the manifest awakening to itself too
- Tuvix and what it means to be an individual
- Nothing so obvious it is obvious
- Void noticing itself, and disappointed
- Cheese influencing the content of dreams
- Body watching and remembering
- An important job for anyone we look up to: be flawed
- Paying attention to what's behind the curtain
- Thoughts as sense field
- Dream: help in getting to the top
August 2007
- A felt-sense of ordinariness
- The safety of having it all figured out
- "Not gay" and flawed thinking
- Previews and reorganizing in two ways
- Difference between allowing and actively embrace
- Feldenkrais and body image
- Disidentification from beliefs, fully allowing it all, and actively embrace the fullness of our human self
- The unmanifest is always unmanifest, but the manifest is not always human
- Going to the mind and body for truth
- My body tells me it is true, so it must be
- Nothing left out
- Insanity?
- Fully human, fully void
- Awakened, and expert in only one thing
- Reasons for practice, including becoming more fully human
- Noticing how thoughts create an appearance of space
- Just a thought?
- Forgotten story
- Inquiry: spiritual teachers shouldn't have hangups
- No God but God
- Humor
- Subject and object
- Teachings
- What will it get me?
- Matrix, Zion or machine world, all same nature
- Breathwork session #4
- Interpretations and substance
- Dream: transmissions
- Dream: new ways of getting around
- Beliefs, knots and orphans
- Welcoming the orphans back
- Authenticity
- Ugetsu
- Appearance of truth
- Flavors of being with experiences
- Buddhism is not about becoming good, yet is
- Language and thoughts
- Two effects of well-wishing
- Still racism
- Seeing a thought as a thought, and using the information in that thought
- A simple way to talk about the absolute and relative
- Just a story... yes, but
- Contemperary Jesus
- UG & Byron Katie
- Emotions and awakening
- Breathwork and mutuality
- Movie analogy and disidentification
- Basic plots
- Impermanence as an idea, and immediate perception
- Feeling hunted
- Paradoxes
- An Islamic history of Europe
- Inquiry: he shouldn't be preachy.
- Defense and fear
- Forbidden Planet and the id
- Movie analogies
- No meaning, allowing any and all meanings
- No thing, allowing all things
- Rocking the boat
- Exploring perceptions and overlay of thoughts
- Soul and rebirth
- Attention
- Projections
- Do I really see it?
- What is a relative truth relative to?
- Breathwork
- Albert Ellis and the magic line
- From personal to universal
- A limited inclusiveness
- Directed and open
- Layers of healing
- Energy/consciousness & self/other grid
- Working with addictive tendencies
July 2007
- Freedom
- Energy, consciousness and filters
- Dream: a split felt-sense
- Movies as practice (ii or iii)
- Attention going to knots
- Ego
- Dream: toppling the ruling system
- Bringing up and being with
- Avoiding and being with
- Seeking escape
- Mimicking Ground
- So simple it cannot be expressed in words
- Ground of suffering and joy
- What is a mystery, and what is not?
- Looking forward to triggering beliefs and emotions
- Knitted wolf
- All as gift and the three centers
- Imagining a world
- No way out
- Well-wishing and fear
- More and less radical
- Electrons to enlightenment
- hdr as an anology
- Transparency and control
- Emotions and actions
- Nothing has ever happened
- Explorations and goals
- Anatomy of attention
- What I can be certain about
- Refuge
- Discrepancies
- True self
- Anatomy of resistance
- Inquiry: I know
- Many forms of love
- Dream: dead
- Changing the emotional component of a memory
- Staying with the questions
- Three centers, two levels, and coming home
- Visual on visual
- Inquiry: I can go to a thought for answers
- God as creator?
- Ouroboros - the process eating itself
- Psychology, spirituality, and the final story
- Fear as kernel
- Boiled down
- Attention going to knots
- Dream: transplants (all the time)
June 2007
- The most materialistic, and the most spiritual
- Toolbox mind
- Creation, salvation, doomsday and much more, here and now
- Enemies revealed as friends
- The filter of resistance
- Working with "What is Self? "
- Sci-fi and spirituality
- Relativism revealing the heart
- Views on narcissism
- Distractions as support
- Stirring it up
- Mutuality of being with and inquiry
- Headlessness and identity
- Images of self
- Seamlessness of psychology and spirituality, practice and daily life
- Differentiating 1st and 3rd person
- Working with emotions
- Working with Choiceless Awareness
- Parade: emotionally charged stories
- Gifts of precepts
- CSS retreat and thought images
- Engagement and (dis)identification
- Strength program
- What we let go of
- Going beyond the comfort zone
- Stream and overlays
- Dream: village elder
- Dream: village leader
- Simplicity of awake void & form
- Quadrant: Beyond & embrace, noticing & working with
- More conventional & radical
- The magic of void
- Karma and infinite causes
- Timeless and eternal
- Dream: lean shuttle
- Flavor of synchronicity
- Pragmatics of inquiry
- Self-conscious in two flavors
- Dream: a new dance
- Belly center neutrality
May 2007
- A gentle dark night
- Dark nights and patterns
- Inquiry: I need to make a good impression
- Appearance of space and time
- Void awakening to itself, and absence of identification
- Ground awakening - state or not?
- Dream: well-visited mountains
- Stolen Sweets
- The collected works of Bin Laden
- A belief in it being obvious...
- Centaur experiences
- Talking about this human self in third person, and release
- Centaur and tasting
- What to let go of: the idea that drama protects life
- Relating to the world, on both sides of the split
- First person and death
- If nothing else works, then can always be with it
- Bottom falling out, and reorganization
- The depth of the shallow
- Three centers and nothing to protect
- Receptivity, generosity and the three centers.
- Reformulating
- Avoiding a story, not the object of the story
- Feeling not quite at home
- Torments of unitive life, and open mind
- Tiredness as support
- Poison, medicine and dosage
- Three centers and skillful means
- Belly center and nurturing fullness
- Emotions
- Gain and loss
- Changing content or not?
- Tweaked stories and gridlock
- Death and numbered days
- Three centers and Buddhas
- Quick journey: heaviness and velvet blackness
- Planting seeds
- Disidentification
- Personal and impersonal
- The least human allowing the most human
- The gifts of states
- Good and evil, absolute and relative
- Basics and elaboration
- Rollercoasters and path into void
- Food
- Movies as practice
- Explorations and getting it out
- Digesting habitual patterns
- Thoughts self-liberating, already happening
- What I take myself to be, is how I experience the world and others
- People acting from contraction
- Priming the I-Other split
- Dream: neglected daughter
- Heart-felt being with
- Deep time & Big Mind
- A felt-sense of all as God
- Receptivity and the three centers
- Ragged guests
- Small talk and the heart
- Exploring labeling-images
- Nature of thoughts
- Emptying out
April 2007
- Why the law of attraction works
- Transition experiences
- Beliefs as protection
- Dream: rednecks
- Dreams and reversals
- Barriers as gateways
- The path of sobering up
- Differentiating resistance: to experiene, and the French
- Resistance: revealing Spirit one piece at a time
- Divine feminine
- Don Quixote, personality, and windmills
- Willing to pay the price to be right
- Changes in experiences of senses clarified
- Only beliefs are distracting, and only stories attached to
- Guest practice: gratitude, impermanence and disidentification
- Three reasons for practice
- Thoughts mirroring sensory world, and levels
- Mirror: fascination with the conceptual mind
- Stories creating a sense of separate self
- Dream: books being sold off
- Dream: infinite blackness beyond the porthole
- Off!
- Three centers
- Radio Adyashanti!
- Job's suffering
- Beyond beliefs
- Heart center + head/belly flavors
- Nothing to attain? Yes and no.
- Dark nights and beliefs
- This blog and how to break out
- Obsessiveness, apparent disasters, and waking up
- Stories added to sensations
- Moby Dick
- Hara area
- Dream: short distances
- From I to me, mine and it: a gentle disidentification
- Feeling at home
- Struggling with guests: seeing them as stepping stones and tools only
- Experiences as guests, living their own life
- Deepening into who and what we are (clarified)
- Waiting for a clear YES
- U. G. Krishnamurti and meeting people where they are
- Michael Dowd on Evolutionary Spirituality
- Pulling the rug out from under one's own feet
- Awakenings: dramatic and gentle
- A gift of worms
- Shadows of groups
- A felt-sense of the intimacy of opposites
- Inquiry: I shouldn't be so concerned with all of this
- Dark night, endarkenment, and deepening into our humanity and spirit
- Journey: rocks
- Art and matching
- Old Drawings
- Happiness and appreciation
- Monsters!
- Soul level and inflation
- Biology and beliefs
- The joy of figuring things out
- Dream: in the mountains
- Intermission, and my story is blown
- The gifts of a ceiling
- Resistance to Ground, etc.
- Personal and God's will
- Postmodernism and The Work
- Freedom to play with stories
- Cult? Yes, and also differentiate
- Tension allowing for, and amplifying, beliefs
- Exploring how sensatins and thoughts combine through labeling practice
- Mutuality of (physical) tension and beliefs
- Awakening into what and who we are (revisited)
- Dr. Wolff on ambrosia
- Other senses changing also
- Shift in experience of air and water
- Belly area spine, and energetic hole
- Sensations as anchor (revisited)
- Important and not
- Slow & fast, easy & difficult
- Complete release
- Reversals and the Middle Way
- Aspects of emptiness
- Shift in taste and smell
- Gift of resistance
- Precious, because fleeting
- Enlightened to a thought
- Being an asshole (the truth and beauty of it)
- Don't side with yourself II
- Gifts of confusion
- Letting go, even of gold
- Two ways of losing a belief: friction and investigation
- Neutrality of path, ground and goal
- Dream: in a new place
- One journey
- Not siding with oneself
- Dream: older man becoming generous
- Widening circles of care, and beliefs
- Integral relationships
- Story gridlock
- The function of thoughts
- The Secret: benefits all around
- The gifts of shared inquiry
- Being on the inside of stories and this human self
- The gifts in failure, missteps, loss, shattered dreams, disappointments
- The truth in how The Work doesn't work
- Separate self
- Shadows: examples, and going from demonic to gold to neutral
- Shadow of arrogance
- Why haven't we awakened yet?
- Edge effect
- The human self not trusting it can function well without being identified with
- Tataya Mato
- Asking for it: patterns surfacing full force
- Snowshoeing at Crater Lake
- Dream: far too simplistic
- Dream: humbling truth
March 2007
- Kundalini description
- I know you are...
- The current of quiet bliss and joy
- Happiness and appreciation
- The crazy truth according to Sri Puppetji
- Life inviting us to see what is already more true for us
- Self-conscious = belief conscious
- The absolute & relative of meaning of life
- Bringing the relative into the absolute
- Something completely different: slideshow!
- Eating the menu
- Neutrality and appreciation
- Fear/hope life will show up outside of the boundaries of beliefs
- If beliefs are gone, what is left?
- Sensations as anchor
- Union, dissolution and no self
- Absolute and relative of any story
- Beliefs, no beliefs, and freedom to play
- Hope, fear and wishful thinking
- The gifts of misidentification, suffering, friction and resistance
- The freedom to let go
- Moved to WordPress!
- Inviting feedback and comments from readers
- Inherent neutrality
- The complete freedom of what is
- The simplicity of awakening
- Forms of awakening: ordinary, amazing and neutral
- Hunted and haunted
- Pearls on a string: infinite causes, nature and nurture, and beliefs
- Big Mind book
- A tough one III: the dark nights of the soul and senses
- What it comes down to: seeing what is already more true
- A tough one II
- Boxing in
- Shadow of beliefs, and shadows of identities
- A tough one: an identity of wanting to get somewhere
- Consciousness... one or many? (and the answer is maybe yes, and neither)
- Begrudgingly accepting
- Inquiry: I need to get my life back on track
- Something is wrong
- Amazingly wonderful, awful, and ground
- Journey: feeling like an outsider
- Increasingly alone at the surface, and at home in the depth
- Individuation and connections
- Hierarchy of no-thing and things
- Fear of nothingness and infinity
- Vulnerable animal and the Big Mind process
- Vulnerable little animal
- Relationships with the ultimate, and inflation
- Relationships with the ultimate, and identities
- Absent of I
- Being with and seeing, for its own sake
- Consciousness and energy
- Another flavor of luminous blackness
- How to see all posts on endarkenment and related topics
- Note on labels
- Effects of beliefs and their shadow
- Views and their reversals and shadows
- The beauty of meeting people where they are
- Three relationships with the reversals of views
- Three relationships with beliefs
- Views and their shadows
- Documentary: Who wrote the Bible?
- Transcend and exclude
- More on transition experiences
- Briefly: transition experiences
- Islam's golden age
- When the Moors ruled in Europe
- The stink
- Examining conglomerates
- Projections - of what is alive here and now
- Lebensborn
- Big Mind process and Kensho
- Two different things: letting go of identification, and changing the content
- Identities as either/or, both/and, and none
- Three aspects of identities
- Freefall
- Dream: Nazis and crown prince
- What I don't want to hear
- Thoughts reflecting the past II (effects)
- Thoughts reflecting the past
- Looking at knots from the emptiness and form sides
- Sensations as anchor for beliefs II
- Dream: adZeita - discovering a new and more comprehensive tradition
- Parade: seeing myself as others see me
- Dream: old man returning
- Buddha maturing
- Working at three levels of being, and their mutual influences
- Inferiority and superiority
- Oneness at the three levels
- Currently
- Revising my ideas about this blog
February 2007
- Supplements vs. real food
- New look!
- Blogisattva awards
- An afternoon in front of the fireplace...
- Differentiating allowing
- Filtering out awakeness, and leaving emptiness far in background
- Identity goes out of content, and a sense of doer goes out with it
- Shift from half-hearted to whole-hearted being with
- Fully allowing a sense of a separate self
- Exploring a sense of a separate I in three general ways
- What I take myself as, is how I experience Existence in general
- Differentiating 3rd and 1st person identities
- Beliefs anchored in sensations
- Purgatory
- The Buddha growing up
- Alchemy: the metals of the world in the process of becoming gold
- Dream: a blind mulatto who can see clearer than seeing folks
- The path of untying knots: guided by daily life
- Implications of rising sea levels
- The final leap
- The path of untying knots
- Green and beliefs
- Dream: a new human
- Dream: snow on fire
- Perceptual center as anchor for a sense of a separate self
- Spirit and soul allowing a shift from tragedy to comedy
- Identities, cycles and alchemy
- Integral blogs and Blogisattva nominees
- Milarepa: The Film
- Dream: Gathering of yogis
- Headless and fullness of being
- The field filtered through the head and belly centers
- King Lindorm and the split
- The birds of Barchusen
- Aspects of identity
- Source of tension and how we deal with it
- The nigredo, albedo and rubedo of no defense
- Dream: retreated ocean
- Big Mind resources
- The other side
- Deeper layers of the shadow
- Lessons from King Lindorm
- Unconscious and conscious separatio
- The Work and alchemy II
- King Lindorm and more details from alchemy
- King Lindorm, the trickster, and going beyond what we know
- Alchemical vessel, three phases, and The Work
- Three alchemical phases
- Alchemy, and who and what we are
- Space and resistance
- Fertile darkness and luminous blackness
- The separate I, and the I without an Other
- Fearlessness
- Anchor for sense of separate I
- Indwelling God and Big Heart, again, and some more
- Self-guided missile
- Aspects of seeking, longing and wanting
January 2007
- Prayer and the indwelling God
- Journey: blue stone and deep silence
- Shifting of who and what in foreground
- The fluidity of being with
- Ecological Footprint
- Why people focus on refuting Ken Wilber?
- Magic
- Buddha and the Ecological Footprint
- Four aspects of the view
- The intimacy of the inner and outer
- Sounds from home
- The game of the little guy
- Some effects of the dark night
- Corrections: desire, fusion and shadows
- Distinct, fused and not two
- Deepening into the ordinariness of what and who I am
- Profoundly ordinary
- A journey through collective shadows
- Dream: guide on a pilgrim circuit
- The gifts of off-days
- Exertion, health and dreams
- Wings of Desire
- Wise avoidance
- Food and digestion
- Context and content
- The one taste of fully experiencing
- Insatiable as who and what I am
- Journeying: hardness and energetic hole
- Dark night as burning through remaining traces of a sense of I, and the effects of a sense of I
- Maturing into the unremarkable
- Layers of identity
- A more full-bodied being with
- The three centers in the Big Mind process
- Voices disowned in the self-inquiry process
- Dream: Informing and a backlash
- Shifting filters
- Intermediary filters
- The most important is often the most simple
- The transcendent qualities of endarkenment
- Dazzling dark
- Felt sense of all as one.. or as (the transcendent) I?
- Felt-sense of all as one
- Dream: detective work (lila)
- Dreams: journey and combined composer
- Practices surfacing
- Two ways of being with: meditation and healing
- Death and rebirth
- Big Mind and indwelling God
- Form, emptiness and unraveling knots
- Big Mind and belly center
- Fully allowing leads to Big Mind
- Three realms of being
- Forms of darkness
- Aspects of what is... right now
- Mirror practice
- Resistance as essential for embodiment
- Allowing even resistance
- Blue spheres
- Gathering awareness
- Noticing all as (already) God's will
- Surrendering wants, shoulds, identities, beliefs
- Soul retrieval
- Infinite detachment, infinite intimacy
- Headlessness and three centers
- Headless movies
- In deep gratitude of Douglas Harding
- Two ways of appearing as abstract
- Vulcans, and walling and allowing experience
- Creating an identity, and so resistance, out of not resisting
- Surrendering resistance, even to resistance
- Forms of emptiness
- Aspects of resolution
- Dreams, and thought as servant
- Head and belly, and heart follows
- Dream: the full embrace and deepening embodiment of the life of Christ
- Free will
- Transcend and include
- The birth of identification with identities
- Eros, Thanatos and identities
- Shutting down and booting up
- Personality contrasted
- Unified heart, and world as split or Spirit
- Fluid identification
- Aligned in the depth, and also at the surface
- Deep Time and EcoLogical Calendars
- Belly center and feeling into
- Heart mirroring head mirroring belly
- Outer mirroring the inner
- Spatiality of resistance
- Identities with and without a sense of I
- Clarifying the dimensions of being with whatever comes up
- The emptiness and form dimensions of being with whatever comes up
- Sleepless hours as practice
December 2006
- Surrendering resistance to sense of I
- Identity and surrender
- Belly center, fear, nurturing, and surrender
- Beauty of outer space...
- Sense of I
- Crystallizing
- The drama of awakening
- The three centers and the chakras
- Summary of phone session on three centers
- The hard work of fluid identities
- Released from identification
- The simplicity of being with and being
- Cycles and surrender
- Adyashanti on The Awakened Way
- Big Mind, Big Heart, Big Belly
- The three centers and the Big Mind process
- Big Mind process and the belly center
- Simplicity of connection, and cycles
- Spheres of blue light
- Antaryamin and the three centers
- Dream: awakening of the vertebrae
- Twin
- Dream: the feminine face of God
- Hara, energetic hole, scoliosis and endarkenment
- Identities, moving beyond and holding back
- Phases of the endarkenment: dark night, Breema, dreams of soul mates and shadows, identities, and sleep and movies
- Death and resurrection
- Dream: leading me to execution
- Sequence of unfolding of fertile darkness and alive luminosity
- Christ meditation
- The closest to immediate experience
- Three centeres as filters
- Alive luminous blackness
- Dream: Alive luminous blackness
- Unremarkable
- Courage to explore
- Cycling through 2nd, 3rd and 1st person
- Resistance, dark night and purgatory
- Feeling all arising as Spirit and me
- Dream: destroying the boats
- Three aspects of composting
- Dream: worlds and souls
- Composting, Breema and endarkenment
- Feeling it all as Spirit and me
- Beyond sanity and madness
- Tongues of fire
- Recent energy drawings
- Dream: Communication between allies
- Dream: I am a woman in a play
- Fall from and into grace
- Seed resistance and flowering tree of resistance, and composting it all
- Deep center and excitement
- Composting resistance
- Alive luminosity
- Cats: Parzifal and Luna
- This blog
- Alive luminosity, endarkenment, centers
- Dream: a movie star who is also completely ordinary
- Dream: animals becoming intelligent in a mature way
- Diksha event
- Ego as structure and sense of I
- Ways of working with identity in real time
- Dream: giving it all away
- Waking dream: growing a new heart
- Identity and suffering
- Simple and immediate
- Reinforcing cycles
- Multilayered journey
- Forms of identity
- Impulse to wholeness
- Contraction
- The Fountain
- Stream of form, not fall from grace
- One Taste of emptiness and form, the centers of seeing, feeling and loving, and the deepening into it
- The three centers of head, belly and heart, seeing, feeling and loving
- The two aspects and three centers of One Taste
- A moving cardboard cutout and a sense of I
- The way the stream is now
- Dream: all made of rosewood
- The quest for immortality
- Waking dream: womb of cosmos
- The brutality at worldcentric
- Appearance of a chooser
- Update on Endarkenment
- The complementarity of Atman and Anatman
- The One Taste of public and private situations
- Draw to the primitve
November 2006
- The question of evil
- Free Will II - a difference between realizing and believing in ideas
- The mutuality of emptiness and form
- Free will - how the question arises and can be resolved
- Dream: cut down to size
- Adi Da, Avatars and God-Men
- Ocean and wave
- Shaktipat
- Experiment: who am I without the story?
- Tracing subject and object
- Tracing humility
- Gratitude and stories we tell ourselves
- Time out of the timeless, space out of the spaceless
- Forms of integral
- The many meanings of transpersonal
- Mini Process Work session: from frantically running to embracing heaven and earth
- Ego as organizing principle, and attachment to idea of I
- Spirit as 1st and then 3rd person
- Dreams where the stage stays the same and the play and the characters change
- Dream: taking action to clear it up
- Dream: up on a mountain, then ground of a city
- Feeling into
- Levels of oneness: all as Spirit, and everything I see out there is also in here
- Spirit pretending twice: first to be a segment of itself, then imitating what is really is
- Dream: telling the truth || feeling into the truth of the shadow
- Seeing and feeling all as Spirit
- Dream: Informed on a central criminal, and hunted by his friends
- History of Mysticism by Swami Abhayananda
- Energy drawings
- Engagement in realized selflessness
- Embracing the polarity: engaged detachment
- The split covering up the ground
- Inner and outer shadows and darkness
- Enlightenment and mind, Endarkenment and emotions
- Just one anchor
- Fertile darkness as metahpor and direct experience
- Field of seeing-seen
- Stream of form as God's will - many flavors
- Different grounds II - Ground, fertile darkness, bliss, love and wisdom
- Planting seeds in the world of form
- For the benefit of all beings
- Stream of form as God's will II
- One Taste and an infinite variety of tastes
- Borat, ethnocentricity and fear
- Freshness of experience and expression
- I know the first step, but what is the second?
- Dream: immensity wating to come through, and so much in this life is just pretending
- Stream as God's will
- Wholehearted: whole heart
- Different grounds: Ground, fertile darkness and bliss
- Setting the stage for a shift
- Energy sketches
- Stream of form flowing through awareness
- Getting up in the morning
- Mars rovers and identification
- Endarkenment session II - notes
- Heart closing and opening from same situation
- Yang and yin grounds as mirror images
- Fertile darkness - some more things
- Energy sketch
- Stream of dreams
- Rich smooth fertile blackness - some things about it
- Energy drawing
- Fertile void as dark womb
- The fertile void and Arvo Pärt
- Endarkenment session notes from Barry and me
- Endarkenment: the beauty of the silent, full darkness
- Dream: an actor getting back into the game
- Energy drawing
- Ecology and economy
- Unraveling knots: processing at all levels of our being
- Intermediate: not in charge
- Feeding awareness
- Meditation: Ground revealed to itself
- Pretending, ethno/worldcentric and Iraq
October 2006
- The essence of The Secret
- Integrity: beliefs and quiet voice
- Layering of beliefs, the quiet little voice, bliss, and clarity
- Headlessness and radical subjectivity
- Dream: new house and old identity
- Aspects of Self-Realization
- Watching the human self
- Is it possible to make a mistake?
- Getting what we want: excitement and falling away of desire
- Jnana and bhakti as 1+3 and 1+2
- Freedom filtered
- Trusting the human self to do its thing
- Seeking and nonseeking
- Reporters Without Borders Index for 2006
- How to deal with thoughts?
- Embracing the wanting-to-change-self/other polarity
- Soul Practices
- Music and prayer
- The many forms of oneness
- Surrender
- Awakening: what may change and what may not
- Law of attraction and quadrants
- Widening worldcentric
- Inquiry: something is wrong
- Becoming whole: Star Trek, women and brains
- Law of attraction?
- Clarity and quiet bliss when fully experienced
- Intention as practice
- Beliefs hidden in the shadow of conscious views
- Invitation to find for oneself
- Clarity, and choice falls away
- Feeling like myself
- What do I have to let go of to find peace with it?
- Forms of integration
- Teflon mind
- Drives and motivations
- Enlightenment and Self-Realization II
- Finding the gifts in two ways: in holding onto the story, and in it's grain of truth
- A hundred complex cases against God in court
- Heterosexuals: they only need more supervision
- Seen/seeing inquiry and labeling
- Symptoms, roots and subtle reductionism
- The Projection Line
- Believe six impossible things before breakfast
- The curse and the blessing of impermanence
- Seeking mind as double support: reminder of projections, and taking care of my human self
- Is it true that what I seek is not already here?
- Ghost reactions
- Flowering of Spirit
- Spirit as You and you, specifically YOU
- The me and mine, and the you and it, within transcend and include
- Evil and elements
- The many faces of love
- The coin of awakening II: Impersonal Enlightenment and personal Self-Realization
- The coin of awakening: exploring both sides
- The coin of ignorance: exploring both sides
- Film Connection
- One with? Yes and no.
- Headless Way
- Inquiry: Anything I can say is obvious
- Integral Universe Story
- The Work greasing the spiral?
- Are you from Kazakstan? Culture, learnings, projections and levels
- aqal: putting it all together with 300+ categories
- Nice and fuzzy aqal
- Mean green, terrorism, tiers and Spiral Dynamics
- Wilber-Coombs Lattice: stages, states and self-line
September 2006
- Inquiry: What is the gift?
- Aqal only for second tier folks? Not likely.
- Dangers of models
- Inquiry: US hellbent on driving itself into the ditch
- Climate Chaos
- American Blackout, vote rigging and more
- Common beliefs
- Self as seeing (or absent), me as this human self, and other as the rest of form
- Identification versus development
- Spiral of problems and resolutions
- Widening circles & practical versus right
- Local integral network?
- Rebirth: what does it mean and is it true, questions from different quadrants
- They burnt me at the stake: stories as mirrors mainly
- Red in tooth and claw
- Cannot see zone #2 from zone #1 realm? Yes and no
- World changing: many possible outcomes and what to do
- The third eye: transcend and embrace, and how to develop it
- Inquiry into what I really want
- Bindi
- No drama, even within the appearance of drama
- Chronos: being devoured by, or itself food
- Playing the game: taking a fictional character as real
- Hide and seek, right here
- Realization and conceptualization
- Meaning of life?
- Any story about the world is a self-portrait
- Dream: the fullness of infinite characteristics
- Integral Spirituality and zones #2 and #4
- The universe gawking at itself
- Munich: going beyond the obvious polarity
- Headless Way - now at YouTube!
- Parallels between atheism and mysticism, materialism and the nondual
- A belief means identity with content
- Hafiz: Lousy at Math
- Hafiz: Why Aren't We All Screaming Drunks?
- Hafiz: Until
- I as seen, seeing and absent
- Consciousness - personal or spirit?
- Self/Other Grid II
- Ghost emotions and reactivty
- Stickiness and The Work
- Dreaming as an analogy
- Inquiry and release
- The joy of shifting gears
- Quackery? Yes and no
- Holding it in place by trying to change it
- Light Sensitivity
- The other side of the coin: exploring common myths about awakening
- Diksha process summary
- Self/Other & Energy/Consciousness Grid
- Have you been a borg?
- The Sting & Reversals
- Planting Seeds
- LibraryThing etc.
- Clear seeing and release, drama and continued struggle
- Global Mind Shift
- Content fighting content
- Beliefs, resistance and tension
- 3-2-1 shadow process in dreams
- Dreams like movies: no I and no self, only pure seeing
- Exloring that which looks most as I
- The phases of self-inquiry
- Content Changing to Allow for Recognition of Ground
- Hara as a Reservoir
- The Wisdom that is Already Here
- Inseperability of Ground and Phenomena
- Radical Impartiality
- Alarms Built Into Beliefs
- Dream :: a memorial where I find my own name
- Dream :: Radical Impartiality & Milarepa
August 2006
- Spiritual Practice as Alignment with Ground
- Ground
- Nada Yoga
- Nonduality Video Snippets
- Typical Things Happening in Awakening (?)
- Trust in this Human Self Functioning Without a Doer
- Human Self Living its Own Life
- SETI
- Same Thoughts, and I Also Talk to Myself
- Content of Beliefs, and Believing Itself, Brings a Sense of Something Being Off
- Low Life
- Cravings, Addictions & The Hole
- True Meditation & Meditative Self-Inquiry
- Elements of Inquiry
- What Comes & Goes, And What Doesn't
- Internet Practicalities
- Pluto
- Deity Mysticism, Witness & Fall from Grace
- Forms of Compassion
- Dream: cynicism
- Turnarounds and Relative Truths *
- Planting Seeds
- Ground Awakening to Itself, and Functional Connections
- No Being Has Ever Awakened
- All sentient beings, the great earth, and I have awakened together
- Finer Detail
- Finding peace with the disturbance, even if it never changes
- Space as Analogy (and more than that)
- What Do I Really Want?
- Trust In What Is
- Meditation in Action *
- Noticing Sense of I as Ground *
- Identification & Not
- Inquiry :: He shouldn't see relative truths as absolute
- Within?
- Awakening West?
- Borat
- Resistance & Tension
- Not Even in My Own Business
- Simple Feedback & The Cycle of Double Avoidance
- Labeling & The Components of Emotions
- Karma & Beliefs *
- Undercurrent of Terror
- Different, Same, Same
- Impermanence & That Which Is Free of Change
- Ego... Two Meanings & Matures Following Awakening
- Impermanence
- Inquiry :: Confusing What is Simple
- Effects of Labeling
- Some Ways of Labeling *
- Fifth Peak Buddhism
- Identity & Knowing Someone
- Body Identification
- Not Inanimate
- Dream :: House Moved Harmlessly by Nature
July 2006
- Heat Exhaustion & Brilliance
- Currently into...
- Israel & Lebanon
- Good Integral Opportunity
- Traditional & Eclectic
- Suction, Emptiness & Surrender
- What I do not have within me
- Eating Time
- Dream :: Mirror
- Pretending *
- Inquiry Aspects
- Perfection
- Night Watch
- Living Without the Drama
- Lack & Void *
- Language & Awakenings
- Anatomy of a Thought
- Adventures of Space
- Inquiry & Motivation
- Examples of Projection
- Projections Noticed **
- Projections **
- Inquiry : They Should See Everything as Included
- Everything is Included *
- Picking up the Pieces
- Soul & Spirit
- Ken Wilber Goes to Hollywood?
- Changing Constants
- Reflecting My Conscious Attitude
- Betrayal of Suffering
- Synchronicities
- Resistance & Stomach Ache
- Diksha
- Dream :: Bringing Essence to it *
- Dream :: Cat Brought Back to Life **
- Losing the Moon
June 2006
- No Mind, No Body
- Emotions, Needs & Stories
- Softness & Receptivity or Hurt
- Thirst? & Going to Get Water *
- Jonah & The Whale
- From Absolute to Relative **
- Collective Processes
- Our Development
- Sacred Beliefs
- Two Aspects of Pain *
- Anatomy of a Craving *
- Just Happens & Practice
- Labels & Resistance in Daily Life
- Fear of Allowing Resistance to Drop **
- Dreams as More True *
- Anatomy of Resistance
- Dream :: Card Dealer
- Beliefs, Resistance and Samsara
- Inconvenient Truth
- Infinity
- Finding Peace with Fall From Grace **
- Making Good Use of Samsara **
- 'Devil May Care' Guy *
- Pressure Washer Qualities *
- Straight & Shaky
- Mechanisms of Samsara and (Other) Edges *
- Gateways
- Describing the Self (with Capital S) **
- Acting as if Believe
- Transparency, Popping & Beliefs
- Voice Dialogue :: Voice of Beliefs
- Inquiry :: Seeing Their Lives as Sacred
- Projections :: Spanning Personal & Transcendent, One & Many **
- Fully Experience
- Recent
- Resistance & I Within the Field
- Floating at the Edge
- Ego Fighting?
- I & Identity
- Nurturing Development
- Projections & Levels of Development
- Mirrors Mirrors Everywhere
- Time Travel?
- Figure-Ground Reversal
- Dream :: Getting Used to Less Comfort
- Dream :: Visit
- Dream :: Surrender
- Amma
- Compassion
- Inquiry Becoming Alive
- The Tao of Big Cats
- Absolute & Relative
- Small & Big Peace
- Liberation **
- Cravings, addictions and attachments
- Catching Contractions at Two Points
- Perfect
- Labeling & Inquiry
- From Disturbance to Reminder
- Content & Awareness
- Transformational Breathing
- Breaking Open vs. Down
- Befriending - In Two Ways
- Intention & Surrender
- Enlightenment, God Realization & Maturing
- Big Mind & Big Heart
- Stories
- Befriending
- Dream: having my chakras analyzed
- Free Fall
- Who Are You?
- Staff of Hermes
- From Content to Context
- Spaciness
- The Direct Route
May 2006
- Dullness
- A Universe Spawned from a Simple Thought
- Land Mines
- Mechanisms of Samsara
- I am You
- Too True to Inquire Into
- Intention to Live It
- Popping & Path
- Dreamwork :: Amnesia **
- Dreamwork :: Dead **
- NAET & Precepts
- Hara
- The Superhero Path
- Stories Pointing Beyond Themselves
- Current Symptoms
- Radical Letting Go
- Energy Stories **
- Befriending Shiva
- Mutes & Liars *
- Sketches
- Doodle
- Arguing With Reality **
- Currently
- Car Stolen
- Agenda
- Nadis, Meridians, Chakras & The Holarchy of Being
- Fool
- Process Work, Big Mind Process, Dreams & Mirrors
- Dream :: Swelling Ocean **
- Flavors
- Examining Underlying Beliefs
- Inquiry :: Teaching
- Correspondence
- Infinite Causes
- Undoing Lifetimes
- Examining Ideas
- Death
- Inquiry :: Death
- Dentist
- Relearning
- Harvesting the Nutrients
- Network of Beliefs
- Stories Before Emotions
- Clarity
- Present
- Infinite Causes & Present
- Happiness
- Chakras as Transformers
- Rushing Back In
- Research
- Self-Centered
- Inquiry :: Better & Worse
- Presenting Inquiry
- Inquiry :: Life is a Burden
- Psychology & Spirituality
- Heroes & Villains
- Disidentification
- Peeling the Layers of Beliefs
- Talking About Selflessness
- Driven
- Inquiry :: They should understand me
- Experiences of the body, now
- Inquiry On Dreams
- Timeless Present
- Piece of Hot Coal
- Inquiry :: Get Over It
- Inquiry :: Without Stories
- Freedom
- Neutral
- Inquiry :: Pressure
- Inquiry :: Not Too Excited
April 2006
- Inquiry :: Teaching
- Inquiry :: His Religion
- Ice Cream, Rugs & Arrogance
- Study the Self
- Mirrors - Three Ways
- Inquiry :: The Way it Used to Be
- Inquiry :: Crazy
- Inquiry :: Hobos
- Inquiry :: Selflessness
- Inquiry :: Something Can Go Wrong
- Inquiry :: Contractions
- Causal Only?
- Guidance System
- Relating to Thoughts
- Peeling Off
- Inquiry :: Center of Attention
- Absolute & Relative
- The Problems of Separation
- Trusting the Universe & Truth
- Working from Big Mind & Human Self
- Space & Time
- Inquiry: Other People's Stories About Me
- Inquiry & Organic Unfolding
- Self-Centered
- Movies as Analogy
- Offering Up or Right Here
- Just Happens
- Inquiry :: Stuck
- Currently...
- Disturbance as Invitation
- Inquiry :: Universe
- Thoughts as Innocent Questions
- Kaleidoscope of Stories
- Innocence
- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and I
- Inquiry :: She shouldn't talk so much
- Beliefs as Time Bombs
- Exaggerated Yang
- Nostalgia for Samsara III
- Only for you - and me
- Precision
- Liberation
- Inquiry :: Life is a struggle
- Inquiry :: I need to struggle
- Absence of Identity
- Inquiry :: Object in the world
- Uneasiness in inquiry
- Talking about inquiry
- Inquiry :: He shouldn't have believed in stories
- Inquiry: Believing in thoughts
- Have to do it, and have to not do it
- Bladder Deeksha
- Squeezed
- Inquiry :: I can lose something
- Inviting Deities
- One Mountain, Many Peaks
- Ways of Being With Experiences
- No Distance
- Deeksha & Subtle Energies
- What Do I Really Want?
- Five Elements
- Causal Energy & Healing
- Functional Connection taken as I
- Inquiry :: Hating Life
- Real?
- Path & No Path
- Inquiry & Empathy
- Turnarounds
- Trust :: Basic and Conventional
- Aging & Stories
- Identification & Doer
- Emptiness
- Selflessness
- Positions & Discomfort
- Split Screen
- Death Calculator
- Nostalgia for Samsara II
- Veils and Crystal Clear
- More on opaqueness, transparency and popping
- Opaque, Transparent, Popped
- Special
- Movies as Practice
- What do you not want me to see about you?
- Intrapsychic & Intradivine
- Ego
- Transparency
- Guided Inquiry vs. Talks
- Lila
- Figure-Ground
- Voice of Stuckness
- Big Heart, Master, Integration, Stuckness
- Inquiry :: I need to be liberated
- Fertile Areas of Beliefs
- V for Inquiry
- Inquiry :: Distractions can give me relief
- Inquiry :: Being Paid
- Water
- Soul & Big Mind
- Big Chunks & Future Plans
- Inquiry :: I Know
March 2006
- Projections
- Contact
- God As Groups
- Three Instances & Soul
- Compassion & Five Elements
- Gentle Inquiry
- All OK & Perfect Symmetry
- Dream
- Filters
- Exploration & Goals
- Soul
- Realizing Selflessness Continuum
- Ground: Foreground & Background
- Inner and Outer Integrations
- Contractions There, But Not Able to Believe in Them
- Advice for Myself
- Heart Prayer
- Individuation
- Personal & Universal
- The Last Shall Be The First
- Nostalgia for Samsara
- Dream
- Judgment & Contractions
- Freedom & Direction
- Meet the Symptom Maker
- This Blog
- Witness
- Grow In The Shadow
- Unravelling
- Fluidity & Timing
- Courage
- Exchanging Stories
- Small Issues & Big Problems
- Cultural Differences
- Creating a (fixed) World(view)
- Knot
- Bliss & Appreciation
- Nostalgia for Samsara
- Cell Phone Symphony
- Atmosphere
- Liberation & Engagement
- Mindfulness Practices
- Flow
- Ego & Human Self
- Inside of Contractions II
- Inside of Contractions
- Infinite Causes & Universe Story
- Big Mind & No I
- Tapestry
- Fascination
- Flow
- Recurrent Dream
- Yoga & Meditation
- Rolling It In
- Overdramatizing
- Inquiry
- Inner & Outer
- Tapestry
- Pusher
- Witness & Earth Connection
- Heaven & Earth
- Dream
- Basic Mindfullness Practice
- Stories & No Stories
- Two Views
- I-Other Dynamics
- Breath of Fire
- World as a Mirror
- The Delusion of Seeking Awakening
- Information In Voices
- Wanting to Be Seen
- Quick & Easy?
- Filtered Through a Sense of I
- Appearance of Choice
- Community Group Organization
- Into Fatigue
- Wounded Healer
February 2006
- Calling, Passion & Conscious Evolution
- Being With & Surrender
- The Both/And of Either/Or
- Process
- Dream
- Fire
- Yes!
- Dials To Neutral
- Movies & Fluidity
- Energy & Intention
- Infinite Causes
- Free Will
- If It Can Happen, It Will
- Universal & Unique
- Fully Awakened, Fully Human
- Dream
- Big Mind
- Functioning Without Beliefs
- Seeing Clearly the Burden Of I
- The Use & Dangers of Goals
- Great Story & Big Mind
- Filtered Through "I"
- Karma
- Context & Content
- Believing In Stories
- Fixing The Unfixable
- Sort of There & Completely Obvious
- Transmission
- Food & Content
- Seductive Gestalts
- http://absentofi.org/2006/02/1620/
- Gestalts & Aggregates
- Popping
- Absolutely Not Qualified
- Not Knowing Freeing Up Knowing
- Freedom To Play With Stories
- Context & Content
- Final Defeat
- Why No I?
- Head On Top of Head
- Dream
- Republish
- Inquiry
- Reversals
- Pervasive Conceit
- Same Old Garbage, including this, and this... and this...
- Persistent Belief In I
- Crowded
- Sincerity
- Clarifying The Boundary of I
- Seeing & Seer
- Seeing & Discernment
- God Exploring Itself In Its Fullness
- Holding What Is
- Real?
- Composites
- Coming to Peace With What Is
- Creator & Creation
- Open Heart
- Unto every one which hath shall be given
- Housemate Situation
- Big Drama
- More Veils
- Iran & Shadows
- Universally Human
- Selfishness & Self-Centeredness
- Ugliness Of Small Mind
- Seeing In Me What I see In Him
- Housemate Woes
- Dream
- Determinism: The Least & Most Spiritual
- Collective Shadows
- Love
- Situations & How We Deal With Them
- Inquiry Into Causes
- Inquiry: Brushing Teeth
- Inquiry
- Byron Katie Inquiries
- Ways to Release From Content
- Vivid Cardboard Cutouts
- Happening In & As Space
- Deepening Into The Nondual
- Impermanence
- Am I in it, or is it in me?
- Practice of Gratitude
- Iceberg
- Scratching the Surface
- Cardboard Cutout
- Crystal Clear Context
- Deepening
- Practice Process
- Collapse & Practice
- Unveiling
- Field Appearing as I and Other
- Selflessness
- God, Bad & Ugly
- Conscious Use of "Consciousness"
- Emotions & Phases
- Pesky I
- Stream
- Muhammad Cartoons
- God's Pitifulness
- Attachment to... What?
- Infinite & Definite
- Absolute & Relative
- Unhealthy Orange & Blue
January 2006
- Signs of The Unseen
- No Identity & Identity
- Energy, Cycles & Sitting Practice
- Sign
- No I
- Universally Human
- Movies as Practice
- Phase Transitions & Popping
- Wei Wu Wei
- Nocturn: Kate Bush and the nondual
- Facination With Content
- Oscillations
- Center for Sacred Sciences
- Polarities
- Heart Centered Practice: Fullness, engagement and embodiment
- Buddhist God Realm, Identification with Witness, and Fall From Grace
- Just Happening
- A Richness In Ordinary Life
- No Doer, Only Doing
- Impermanence & No I
- Dream :: Playing Music
- From I to No I, Dark Night, Deepening into the Nondual
- The Universe Story & The Transdual Breaking Into The Nondual
- Even the unconditioned is conditioned on awakening
- Emotions in the context of Big Mind
- Sinking Into The Wisdom of What Is
- Desperately Seeking the Nondual
- On My Side
- Cynicism & Arrogance
- Dissatisfaction
- Weariness & Dryness
- Transdual Within Nondual
- All Grace
- What Nondual Awakening Brings Up
- God Realization & Enlightenment
- Fire, Awakening, Dark Night & Recovery
- To get somewhere, go in the other direction
- What is it that is not changing?
- Motivation & Meaning
- Simple Realization, Convoluted Expression
- Everything Aware of Itself
- Deeksha Process
- Dream
- Dryness & Liberation From Content
- Gateless Gate
- Language :: One With & What Is
- Big Dreams
- From Other to I
- Personal Becomes Universal
- Texture as Cue for I
- Currently
- Mining Landfills
- Clear Yes
- Disasters, Silver Linings, and Conventional & Transcendent Don't Knows **
- Active Imagination :: Machine Engineer
- The Reality of Stories & What is Beyond
- Dream :: Show me where your mind ends
- The Power of Yes
- Food Fog
- Fluctuations & Popping
- Ground & Pitiful Content
- Dark Night of the Civilization
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Always Fresh
- What is Awakening?
- Nothing & Something To Protect
- Remorse & Rejoicing
- Food & Mind
- Generosity
- Mistaken Reality of What Is & I
- Close & Not
- Our Humanness
- I & No I :: Personal & Not Personal
- Inquiry Into I
- Yard Work
- Witness & Nondual :: Two Grounds
- Process
- Ground & Segment
- It Is All Good
- Deeksha
- From Problem to Interesting
- Sincerity
- Teaching & Prejudice
- Body & Spirit
- Intention, Nondual & Prejudice
- http://absentofi.org/2006/01/1781/
- Levels & Effects of Gratitude
- Inquiry
- What Is, Splits, Fascinations & Identity
- Fascination
- Spirit As Other
- Dark Night of the Soul & Five Phases
- Ordinary Concerns
- Preoccupation & Release
- Simple Insights
- Big Mind & Doing
- Being & Doing
- Conventional View & Inclusiveness
- Minor & Major Dark Nights
- Madagascar & Earth
- Present: Being & Being In
- Synchronicities :: Morten & Ruthless Compassion Gone Awry
- Yang Compassion :: I don't Know & I Can Always Improve
- Transdual & Dual Reason
- Absolute & Relative
- Waking Down
- Waking at 4am
- Heart & Beauty
- Comfort Zones
- Absolute & Relative :: Wisdom & Compassion
- Projections & Foreigners
- EcoSpirituality Presentation :: Ideas
- Being With & Interested In
- Three Forms of Unpleasantness
- What is Spiritual?
- Friction
- Deeksha
- Deepening Into Release & Engagement
- Clear Intention
- Vacuum Cleaner
- Changing Motivations
December 2005
- Personal & Universal
- Phases & Master
- Awakening
- Now
- Dreams & Ground
- Dream: The Master
- The Fall of US Empire, Projections & Acting
- Control & Church
- Awakening of Mind & Heart
- Opening of the Heart
- Heart & Mind
- Opening Heart
- Projections, Big Mind & Human Self
- Paths To Big Mind
- The Universe Story & The Transdual
- Transdual & Dual Qualities
- Shadow & Spirit
- Current Shadows
- Different Awakenings
- Awakening Emphasis: Waking Down Uniqueness (?)
- Synchronicity (Attraction & Repulsion)
- Rawness
- Accumulation
- No Center
- No User Manual
- Green Teaching
- For Me Now
- Dark Night of the Soul
- Dark Night of Senses & Soul
- First Person: More Intimate & Less Vulnerable
- One Taste & Engagement
- Seeing & Heart
- Absolute & Relative
- Simple Happiness
- Fluidity of Deepening
- Living My Life for Self & Others
- Kong
- Life As Guru
- Koan of Being Present
- Dark Nights & Diagnosis
- Disassociation & Intimacy
- Death
- Offering
- Self & No Self
- Projections As A lens
- Projections, Development & Ground
- Projections etc.
- Dark Nights & Dying
- Dentist
- Religion & Science
- Confusion Of Dark Nights
- Dark Nights
- Wisdom Of Nature
- Wonder Of Life
- Just Noticing
- The Words Me & I
- Oneness & Not
- Dance Of Intention & Grace
- Various
- Practicing & Living For The Benefit Of All Beings
- Liberated I
- Liberation
- Teflon
- Reasons For Practice
- The Joys of Rejoicing
- Filter, Actions & Ground
- Personal Level
- Widening Circles
- Dark Night of Senses & Soul
- Self & Other Power
- Topsy Turvy
- Integral Practice
- Two Faces of the Absolute: Empty & Full
- Absolute & Relative
- Path Of Extremes & Oozing
- Journey & Destination
- Journey & Not
- Integration Of BioFeedback & Meditative/Yogic Traditions
- Nothing & Something To Protect
- EcoTerrorism & Expanding Circles
- Early Morning
- Rich Dreams
- Individual & God's Will
- Choiceless Freedom
- Speaking From 1st Person
- Right Here - Projections At Two Levels
- Coffee Shop
- Field With No I
- Currently
- No Meaning - Most & Least Affirming
- Meaning & Life
- Something To Protect
- Richness of Streams
- Other & Self Power
- Bliss - Release & Glue
- Five Phases - Tozan & Underhill
- It's All There - But No I
- Two Freedoms
- Engagement & Fluidity
- Undesirable Steeping Stones
- Stark, Naked Happiness
- Engagement & Fluidity
- Sleepiness
- Expectations & Experiences
- Richness Of Streams
- Softening
- Million Strings
- Awakenings
- Dead Ends & Doors
- Precision & Clarity in Big Mind
- Big Mind As Empty & Full And Evolving
- Aligned With What Is
- Phases
- Spiral
- Filters
- Current & Recent Readings & More
- Deepening Of No Self: Remarkable & Unremarkable
- Struggle
November 2005
- Nocturn
- Phases
- Perfection In 1st & 2nd Person
- Dark Night
- Infinite Delusion & Not
- Open Heart
- No Way Out & Not
- Dream
- Inside & Outside Of A Vase
- Projections & The Transdual
- Sincerity
- Living & Dying For
- Integral Sustainability
- Exclusive & Inclusive
- Cloud of Unknowing
- Fulcrums & Voices
- Groundless Ground & Not
- Melting Into
- Goodenough & Synchronicity
- St. John & Tozan
- The Three, Two, One, Zero Relationships With God
- Headlessness
- Need vs. Want
- Witness As A Voice
- Fluidity Of Self & No Self
- 'Pop' Goes The Groundless Ground
- Staying Human Through Working With Projections
- Always Deluded
- Aligned With Existence
- Ghosts Of Habits Past
- Stomach Pain & No I
- Feedback Loops & The Fall Of The US Empire
- Dream
- Heart Centeredness
- Sounds
- God & Societies
- Torture & Spirals
- Daily Life Shifts of Identity
- Atma Vichara & Neti Neti
- Nothing Special
- Human & Spiritual Maturity
- View & Identity
- Food Poisoning, Transpersonal & Personal
- Passion & Unconditional Love
October 2005
- Teachers, Privileged & Not
- Projections
- The Least & The Most Remarkable
- 3 Qualities, 2 Levels
- What Is - Is That Which We Seek
- Apes & Osho
- Meatballs
- One Body
- Just Ordinary
- Avatars
- Crusificion & Resurrection
- No Self & No I
- Flavors of Awakening
- Compassion
- Affirmations
- Attainment
- Alone & Communion
- Paths To Deepening Transduality
- Clarity & Confusion
- Engaging In What Is
- Fully Engaged
- Engaged As Humans...
- Creaky Opening
- Fluid Experiences
- Identity & Not Knowing
- New Worldview
- Nature & Culture
- Inquiries
- Process
- Mercy
- Awakening & Content
- Flip Flops
- Relationships & Believing In Thoughts
- Humans as a speck
- Gawking & Being With: Taking It In
- New Puritan?
- Absence of Conventional Knowing & Intimacy
- Personality As 1st & 3rd Person
- Nature Deficiency Disorder
- Connection With Nature
- Teacher As A Friend & Human Being
- Relationship With Experiences
- Blinded By Belief
- Two Forms Of Intimacy
- Of The Earth
- Clear Seeing & Fullness of Feeling
- Working With Inherent Intelligence
- Dream
- Headlessness: Simple, Yet Infinite In Its Expressions
- Emotions As Things
- Emotions As Guests
- Sound As A Reminder
- Ant & Anthill
- Noticing What Is & Changing Habitual Patterns
- Enlightenment
- Future
- Just Noticing
- Organic Shift
- Biocracy
- First vs. Second & Third Person View
- Awareness & Filter
- Heroes of the Great Turning
- Being With
- Technique of Artificial Separation
- Honoring Thoughts II
- Rebirth
- One & Many
- All Stories & No Story
- Diksha
- Tools & Frameworks etc.
- Wishful Thinking
- Bioneers
- Guests
- Honoring Thoughts
- Sleep & Awareness
- Transdual View: Evolution & Ground
- The Stuckness Of An Exclusive "I"
- Intention & Direction
- Clear Seeing & Fullness Of Feeling
- Believing In The Thought "I"
- "Other" As A Reminder
- Same Content & "I"/absence of "I"
- Medicine & Poison
- What Is
- Paralyzed
- Deep Time & No Time
- Integration
- Shifting the Duality of Me and Other
- Inquiry
- Different Dualities
- Detached & Fully Engaged
- Katrina
- Fully Engaged
- Delusion
- The Thought "I"
- 1st vs. 2nd and 3rd Person Observations
- Being No Contraction To The Contraction
- Congested
- Unbroken Continuity
- Awareness vs. Coming & Going
- Two Curiosities
- Capacity & Awareness
- Describing Myself
- Ground & Content
- Unknown & Known
- Oneness & Individuation
- Present
- Seeking & Exploration
- Lies
- Field & Differentiation
- Returning
- 3rd, 2nd and 1st person relationships
- Deeksha
- Stillness & Movement
- Questions II
- Questions
- Burning Cookbooks & Maps
- Carrot & Whip
- Theism & Nontheism
- The Searchers
- Sitting Practice
- Trigger & Triggered
- Terminology II :: Advaita Vedanta
- Terminology I :: Buddhist
- Feedback
- Not Knowing
- The Life In Me
- Pre/Trans etc.
- Emptiness
- Enlightened Self-Interest
- Some older writings
- Evolution's Edge
- Persistent Memories
- Field & Functional
- Relationship With Problems
- Triggered Patterns
- Field & Functional Abstractions
- Dream: Bhagavan
- Inquiries, Shamata & Vipassana
September 2005
- Fluid Identification
- Fluidity & Rigidity
- Tour of Human Life
- Footnote About Projections
- Awakening & Projection
- Sincerity
- Talk As Inquiry
- Emptiness
- Terrible Arrogance
- Aligning With What Is II
- Aligning With What Is
- Freedom & Restrictions
- Who I Really Am
- Not Knowing & Unknowing
- Depression & Appreciation
- Everything Is Perfect As Is & Not
- Emptiness & Fullness in Unknowing
- Everyday Night of the Soul
- Obscuration, Distraction, Fuel, Existence
- Books
- Content as Vehicles
- Sincerity & Nothing to Defend
- Nonsense & Liberation
- Thoughts, Dark Night, Liberation
- Experiencing & Experienced II
- Experiencing & Experienced
- No Self & Habitual Patterns
- Don't Know
- Gradual vs. Sudden Path
- Fluidity of Neutral & Engaged
- Spiritual Bypass
- Fluid Emphasis
- Reversals
- Friends
- Words & Inquiry
- Center of Gravity
- Body moving on its own
- 3rd, 2nd, 1st and 0 Person
- Indestructible Safety Helmet
- No I
- Identification
- Unremarkable
- No Self & No I
- Absolute
- Inquiry
- Emptiness & Fullness
- Wanting What Is
- Just This Fluidity
- No Ego
- Becoming the Other
- Inquiry
- The Way of Extremes
- Healing
- Passion
- Compassionate Nonsense
- Contamination
- Double Level of Polarities
- Rehumanize & Connect
- Abstractions
- Inquiry & Lecture
- The Sanity & Insanity of Flat-Earthers
- A Natural Fascination Before Ordinariness
- 3-2-1 Relationship
- Naive Seeing
- The Not Human Allowing for the Human
- Fluidity in Big Mind
- The Many & The One
- Practicing Death
- Tools
- Dark Night of the Senses & Soul
- Fluidity in Relationship to God/Big Mind
- Delusion
- Benchmark
- Words
- Inquiry
- Drop & Ocean Big Mind
- Cascading
- Onesidedly Nondual & Transdual to the Rescue
- Beliefs As Tools
- Taste as a Reminder
- The Whole Story
- Remembrance & Confusion
- Resistance to Awakening
- Reincarnation
- Shamanic
- No Self
- Believing in the Absolute
- Teaching Strategies: Appreciation vs. Dismissing
- Living Its Own Life
- Causality & Movement
- Fragments & Fluid Whole
- Why is it Difficult?
- Holding the Breath
- Disconnecting from the Preferences of the Small Self
- Surrender
- Transdual vs. Nondual
- Daily Life Reminders of Big Mind
- Phases & Flavors of Big Mind
- Deepening Into Both Ends of the Polarity
- Sting's Shadow Integration
- The Most Amazing
- God's Will
- Fake It Until You Make It
- Nondual vs. Transdual
- Constructing a Self
- No Boundary
- Walking
- Big Mind & Identity
- Headless
- Exchanging Faces
- Capacity for Tiredness
- Two Paths
- Fluidly Transdual
- Music I listen to
- Thoughts as Questions
- Onesided Nondual
- Pressure Release or Not
- Feeling Tone
- Differently Transdual
- Overwhelmed & Not
- Contraction of Identity
- The Absolute
- Beautiful Symmetry
- Heavy Metal as the Most Spiritual Music
- Tradition & Outside of Tradition
- Death
- God Awakening to Itself
- Buddhist Text
- Dimensions of Big Mind
- Big Mind Flavors
- Cogito Ergo Sum
- The Pioneer is the Guy with the Arrows in His Back
- Contraction Into Identity
- Perfection
- Inflation & Not
- Small Self
- Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans
- Moving Through Myself
- Contraction as Reminder of Object
- Now a Tool
- Chauvinism II
- Chauvinism
- Gratitude
- Clear Seeing & Fullness of Feeling
- Douglas Harding
- Becoming Space & Time
- Continuity as a Practical Tool
- Change, Sameness & Neither
- Within and Inside
- Walking Through Oneself
- Beauty on the Headless Way
- More Fully Human
- Already Buddha Mind & Not
- Differentiation Tricks
- Contractions
- Liberation Process
- Big Mind Variations
- Differentiation into Transduality
- Space & Objects
- Not Good & OK
- No-Choice
- Foot in Both Worlds
- Two-Directional Seeing & Holarchy of Being
- Holarchy of Being & Generosity
- Narcissism & Fluidity
- The Most Available
- Space & Rush
- Coffee Shop
- Gradations of Big Mind
- Transition to No Self
- Functional Difference
- All Phenomena as Guests
- Thoughts as Intermediaries
- One Thought
- Currently Reading
- The Problem with Tradition
- Distinct from Change & Change
- Infinite Variety
- Present II
- Present
- Inquiry
- Not Knowing, Information, Skills & Guidelines
- Center of Gravity
- 3-2-1 Byron Katie!
- Guests
- Passersby
- Crystal Clear
- Naming the Nameless
- Engagement II
- The Drop Big Mind
- Co-Pilots
- Egalitarian & Hierarchy
- Patterns of Small Self
- The Drop & Ocean of Big Mind
- Liberation & Enlightenment
- Engagement
- Headless Way
- No Self?
- The Difficulty of Being a Self
- No Image of Self
- Poof
- Fruition & Path
- Seeking Clarity
- Capacity & The World of Phenomena
- Tapestry
- Reversal II
- Thoughts
- Awakening & Integration
- Levels of No Separation
August 2005
- Upside Down
- Widening Holarchy of Being
- Inquiry
- Absolute
- Identification & View
- Ideas & Hurricanes
- Field of Inner and Outer
- Experiencing Ourselves as Void
- Our Many Faces & No Face
- Freedom to Be What Arises in the Present
- The Difficulty of Upholding a Self
- The Headless Way
- Systems View, Karma, Emptiness & Awakening
- Naming the Nameless
- Simple Karma
- Karma
- The Many Ways of Being Centric
- Not Knowing
- Power of Gawking
- Unfolding Sense of Our Holarchy of Being
- Expanded Sense of Our Holarcy of Being
- Not a Big Deal & Profound Consequences
- No Subject, No Object
- Small Self Going Down
- Detached & Heartfull
- Searching for Blue
- Not Knowing
- Path & Nowhere to Go
- Inquiry Group
- Wealth
- Demystifying Awakenings
- True Religion & Mantras
- Becoming What is Resisted
- Glue
- Frog in a Well
- The Mystery of Now
- 6.5 Billion
- Simple Rules & Complex Results
- Religion & Spirituality
- The Rich Flavor of the Present
- Happening To & Within
- Only Now - May as Well Appreciate It
- Shakiness & Support
- Zone 1 & Holarchy of Being
- Better to Forget & Holarchy of Being
- Stripping Off
- Preferences & Not
- Age
- God & Science
- Fully Baked
- Inquiry
- Inquiry
- After Awakening
- Freedom & Richness
- Freedom
- Views: None, One & Many
- More & Less Space
- Relaxing Into
- Many, One and No Paths
- Pure Perception
- Sincerity
- Thoughts
- Exhaustion & Not
- Gratitude & Awakening
- Drop & Ocean
- Doing & Being
- Emptiness
- Simpler & More Immediate
- Receptivity
- Likes & Dislikes
- Reflections
- Landscape
- Maturing
- Resting & Seeking
- Space & Contractions
- Arising
- The Last Shall be the First
- Big Mind in Real Time
- No Trace
- Healing & Transcending
- Vortex
- Fresh or Boring
- One Taste
- Path into Big Mind
- Two Feet
- Unicorns
- Most Intimate Friend & Advisor
- Instant Projection: Just Add Confusion
- Liberation
- Flavors of Being Present
- Awakening Process
- Ego & Id
- Resistance
- Causality & Movement
- Taking it Personally
- Perception of Time
- Clarity
- Always Changing Now
- Clear Seeing & Content
- Theta
- Fluidity
- Harm & No Trace
- Fixing & Trancending
- Inquiry
- Inherently Valuable
- Something Missing
- No Label
- Minor Gods
- Arising
- Practice
- Burden of the Story
- Flow
- Vortex
- Garbage
- Relaxing Into
- Bliss Clouds
- Integral & Translucent
- Enlightenment & God Realization
- Absorbed
- Flavors II
- Flavors
- Turnarounds & Fluidity
- Phases & Aspects
- Humility
- Gratitude
- Unspoken
- Visualizations
- Talking
- Experiencer & Experienced
- Rejoicing
- Fluidity & Transitions
- Simplified
- Absolute & Relative
- Teachers
- Waterfall
- Inquiry
- Believing in Thoughts
- Pre/Trans
- Local Mind & Big Mind
- Hsin Hsin Ming
- Liberation
- Dream
- Flowers & Deer
- Superior & Inferior
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1171/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1172/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1173/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1174/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1175/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1176/
- Currently Reading
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1178/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1179/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1180/
- Emptiness
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1182/
- http://absentofi.org/2005/08/1183/
- Awakenings & Tools
- Obsessive-Compulsive Thinking Disorder
- How do we support the unspeakable?
- Impermanence
- Christ Meditation & Prayer
- Confusion & Integral View
July 2005
- Ego
- Here/Now
- Anything
- Second Tier
- Clarity
- Fuel
- Aspects & Gradations
- Awareness
- Aspects of Suffering
- Advice for me
- Different Emphasis
- Who Am I?
- The Direction
- Empty
- Who Am I?
- Richness of Small Self
- Layers of Perfection
- Russian Dolls
- Lines
- Interpretations
- Worst Thing
- Layers
- Current
- Awakening Earth
- Always Perfect
- Emptiness & Fullness
- The Simplest Way
- Thoughts
- God's Business
- Great Turning II
- Great Turning
- Yes
- Only Through the Other
- Two Levels of Healing
- Clarity
- Tools & Situations
- Breaking Down vs. Breaking Open
- Dualistic and Transdual Joy
- Breema & Liberation
- >poof<
- Liberation & Awakening to Big Mind
- The View from 2205
- A Gift for the One it Arises in
- Cycles of Awakening & Integration
- Process
- Waking and finding myself as pure awareness
- Natural Expressions
- The Ways the Mind Can Function
- Doing it for Myself
- Partnership
- Being Carried
- Receptivity II
- Receptivity
- Symmetry
- Naked
- Nothing to Achieve, Something to Achieve
- Terminology
- Holarchy
- God
- Bliss
- Healing & Fixing
- Spontaneous & Unconditioned
- Already Here II
- Already Here
- Projections
- Conscious Partnership with the Body
- Inquiry
- Integral Practice
- Centaur
- Stripping Off
- Shifting Center of Gravity
- When you close your eyes
- Awakenings & Liberation
- Awakenings & Deepenings
- Poof
- Evolutionary Process?
- Disturbance or Support
- Nothing to Defend
- Perspectives
- Dipping into the Absolute
- Placing a Head on top of Your Head
- Life as Feedback
- Dream :: New Pope & Lesbian Priest
- Big Mind & Body
- Sinking Into Inquiry
- Positive and Negative
- Support
- Saint Factory
June 2005
- Fluidity in the Life of Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
- Karma
- Basic Consciousness
- Big Mind & The Wild
- Teachers
- Ego?
- Meaning
- Needs & Wants
- Beyond Beliefs
- Waking Down
- Working With Nature
- Mind Without Beliefs
- Big Mind & Ecopsychology
- Three Breaths
- Causes & Conditions
- Albert & Katie
- Shifts
- Inquiry
- Humbling
- Exploration Only
- Big Words
- Memories of Home
- Integrated Free Functioning Self
- Simplicity & Complexity
- Dropping Beliefs
- Beliefs & Suffering
- Perception
- Credit & Blame
- Spies & Sports
- Trust
- Inquiry
- Fear
- Three Ways
- Death
- Visualizations
- Transitions
- Spiral
- Language
- Differentiation
- Killing the Ego...?
- Absolute, Oneness & Big Mind
- Generosity
- No Separation
- Compassion, Gratitude & True Humility
- Functioning
- Ego & Identity
- Motivations
- Glimpses
- Fire
- Heart Meditation
- Inquiry
- Sleepiness
- Inquiry Process
- Distortions
- Layers
- Language
- Seeking the Reflections of Big Mind
- Trying vs. Shift
- Differentiation/No Difference & Fluidity
- Systems View & Health
- Rejoicing
- Dream
- Differentiation & Accuracy
- Age
- Noticing & Process
May 2005
- Self-Guided Missile
- Underøkelsesprosess
- Needs & Strategies
- Universally Human
- Transparency
- Phases
- Liberation
- Unresolved Issues
- Healing
- Dream
- Absolute & Relative
- Simplicity
- Dreams
- Noticing
- Being vs. Trying
- Big Change
- Tong Len
- Big Mind & Process Work
- Absolute & Relative
- My Day
- Alignment
- Relationships
- Discussion Groups
- Support
- Connections
- Fragmented
- Denial vs. Opening
- Experience vs. Ideology
- Tools
- Systems Effects
- Believing in Thoughts
- Resolution
- Weaving Together
- Knowing Who We Are
- Meaning
- Liberating Karma
- Grounded
- Being
- Dream
- Big Mind & Small Self
- Contradictions
- Clear
- Splits
- Passion
- Resistance
- Healing
- Beliefs
- Universal
- Voices
- Yin & Yang
April 2005
- Inclusive and Fluid
- Dream
- Disintegration
- Inquiry
- Believing Thoughts
- Wisdom of the Body
- Shifts
- Poison & Medicine
- Fullness
- Thoughts
- Deluded
- Big Mind & Small Self
- Health
- Just Being
- Stream
- Edges
- Process
- Thoughts
- Lies
- Contractions
- Trying & Allowing
- Awakenings
- Statements
- Inquiry
- As It Happens
- Skills & Transdual
- Hook & Ring
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- Nonattachment
- The Work
- Disintegration
- Still Early
- Hooks
- Current Practice
- Simple, Not Easy
- Keeping it Honest
- Lines
- Support
- When It Doesn't Work
- Fluidity & Stability
- Art
- Reincarnation
- Overheard
- Writing
- Great Doubt
- Mind & Content
- Sobering
- Clarity & Subtle Flirting
- Integrated View
- Integral Approach
- Health
- Being Here/Now
- Impermanence & No-Self
- Yin & Yang
- Awareness
- Transformation vs. Letting Be
- Expressing
- Openings and Stability
- Beauty
- Expression
- Delusion
- Navigation and Approximation
- Statements
- Fluidity
- Personal and Transpersonal
- Deepening
- Writing Style
- Question Related to Breema & Inclusiveness
- Lusciousness
- Personal and Transpersonal
- Diffusing the Chain of Causality
- Personal and Transpersonal
- Fluidity
- Omega Point
- Integral View
- Causality
- Universally Human
- Excitement
- Resting & Deepening
- Mountains and Rivers
- Ordinary Mind
- Thoughts
- One Taste
- Awareness & Timelessness
- Beauty
March 2005
- Juiciness
- View & Deepening
- Hooks & Energy
- Conditioning, Projections & Transdual
- Integral Life/Practice
- Dream
- Breema & Levels
- Meditation in Action
- Acknowledge
- Spoonful of Sugar
- Mirror
- Stripping Extra
- Humbling
- What is Experiencing?
- Supports
- Simple
- Focus & Spaciousness
- Meditation in Action
- Mutuality & Earth
- A Case of Mistaken Identity
- Alert & Relaxed
- Levels & More
- Attractions & Aversions
- Curiosity
- Evolution and Embodiment
- Good & Evil
- Trying vs. Allowing
- Yin & Yang
- Peeling Awareness
- Embodyment
- Motivations
- Process
- Magic
- Hooks & Signpost
- Breema & Research
- Poison to Medicine
- Words & Realizations
- A More Integral Path
- Integral Support
- Gradual Into Infinity
- Awareness & Phenomena
- No Trace
- Burning Karma
- Melting Into
- Awareness
- Levels, Lines & Orientations
- Overview Effect
- Contractions & Openings
- Awareness & Holarchies
- Breema & Zen
- Ego vs. Personality
- Questions
- Fixing vs. Relaxing Into
- Trying vs. Unfolding
- Challenges
- Awareness & Identification
- Situations
- Contact
- Dream
- Overview & Merging
- Alignment
- Guidelines
- Karma
- Transdual
- Guides & Companions
- Seeing with the Eye of God
- Personality & Awareness
February 2005
- Projections
- Differently Transdual
- Meanings of Spirituality
- Pre/trans
- Spiral Dynamics
- Change
- Spiral Dynamics
- Witness
- Analogies
- Beyond Choice & Conditioning
- Changes
- Dream
- Projections, No Separation & Breema
- Contractions & Openings
- Breema Intensive
- Most Amazing
- Dream
- Dream: new embodiment
- Health & Tranformation
- Health & Quadrants
- Tools that Work
- Three Dimensions
January 2005
- Relaxing Into
- Magic
- Chairs & Floor
- Breema & Transdual
- Blind Spot
- Breema
- Vision Improvement
- Connections
- No Extra
- Food
- Different Cultures
- Health & Systems
- Comfortable ::: Healing
November 2004
- Views
- All the Pain in the World
- Nourishment
- Dream :: Intention + Body/Mind Together = Change
- Empathy
- Breema & Zen
October 2004
- Core Issue
- Gradually richer
- Life Situations as Teacher
- Dreams
- Fodder
- Baraka
- Radical
- Erik Bye
- Identification
- Research
- Natural Wisdom of the Body
- The Goat
- Addictions
September 2004
- Culture & Assumptions
- Breema & Healing
- Beyond Altruism & Egotism
- Body Comfortable
- Dreams
- Food
- Culture & Depression
- Life (experience & ideas)
- Miracle
- Summer
- NWEI
- Consumption
- Simplicity
- Beckett
- News as a Tool
- Holistic & Consistency
- Simple II
- Simple
August 2004
- Breema & Big Mind
- Do it for Yourself
- Direction (not perfection)
- Long Perspective
- Breema & Addictions
- Two Cultures
- Prophet and Followers
- Beyond Right & Wrong
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
- Clearing Up
- Dream - Intentional Life
- Online Audio & Text
- Future
- Interactions
- Adaptability
- Choice and Energy
- Fragments of Life
July 2003
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December 2002
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