Dialogues
& Other Writings
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
Chogyam Trungpa
I noticed stories arising inside me that had been troubling mankind forever. I felt absolutely committed to undoing every stressful story that had ever been told. I was the mind of the world, and each time one of the stories was seen for what it really was and thus undone in me, it was undone in the whole world, because there is only one thinker.
Byron Katie
We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.
Chogyam Trungpa
I noticed stories arising inside me that had been troubling mankind forever. I felt absolutely committed to undoing every stressful story that had ever been told. I was the mind of the world, and each time one of the stories was seen for what it really was and thus undone in me, it was undone in the whole world, because there is only one thinker.
Byron Katie
Perspectives - Conversations - Understandings - Inspiration - Insight - Dialogue - Poetry
Cartesian Theology and the Axis of Separation
Read time: 13 minutes The logical underpinnings, world views and mechanistic paradigms of what is predominantly a northern hemisphere Western/European, patriarchal, hierarchical and deeply alienated culture has colonized and subjugated indigenous, southern hemisphere, Eastern, feminine and…
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Arhats, Bodhisattvas, Friends, Wanderers, Nurturers, Healers, Warriors, Seekers & Others…
What Is MOST Important To You NOW…?
A Spiraling Journey Of Deepening, Broadening Movements…?
Sharing Experience, Familiarity & What Is Reaching To Come Through,
Within These Larger Terrains of Source, Silence & Awareness…?
A New Weaving Perhaps…?
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If you believe you are a "teacher" this invite may not be for you...
A tricky balance yes, for it can sometimes be helpful to appear in such ways, in specific circumstances…
The crucial difference being of course, who is it you leave people with…
We are neither teachers, students nor followers… Instead people familiar and comfortable with their own unique ways, and who also seek companions in some of our larger common ways…
