Mystery of Existence

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We can explore the inherent neutrality of anything happening from its emptiness and its form sides. From the emptiness side, it is emptiness...

When there is a Ground awakening, there is a complete freedom to allow what is. Of course, Ground always allows what is. The only difference...

I am often struck by the simplicity of awakening. And if it is an awakening to what we already and always are, why shouldn't it be simpl...

Sometimes I wonder if these large-themed posts have much value. But then I notice that although these themes have to do with the big picture...

One of the things that brings up discomfort in me (=shadow) is people who seem agitated, driven in an unsettled way, haunted, hunted... who ...

A practice I have found interesting (although it gets repetitive after a while!) is to explore the infinite causes to any simple activity I ...

I received this via email, and since it seems to be an open invitation thought I would post it here. Seems like a great chance for those int...

There are many forms of dark nights... In a more technical sense, there are two of them, and in a loose - daily - sense, lots of them. The t...

So when we start letting go of some of the identities that I described in previous posts , what is left? What, if anything, is revealed? For...

In a previous post , I wrote about what we all probably go through in periods: a sense that all our work has had no effect. Old patterns com...

It has been very alive for me how I box myself and life in through beliefs and identities. I create a dividing line through life, and saying...

Beliefs have their own shadows, and beliefs also create identities with their own (very similar) shadows. The shadow of a belief is all the ...

As the process of exploring who and what we are moves along, we get to more and more core identities... We come face to face with them, how ...

I have had the pleasure of spending some time with Deep Surface lately, including at the Center for Sacred Sciences this morning, and he a...

Here are three general phases in befriending the shadow, letting go of narrow identities, or inquiring into beliefs (all aspects of the same...

After a vacation from The Work , it is now coming back although a little less intensively than before. I need to get my life back on track. ...

Any belief gives the sense that something is wrong . We believe life should be a certain way, and it either is but can change, or it is not....

In looking at my own path, I recognize a pattern (which is pretty obvious) that is similar to what I have heard from many others... First, a...

Writing the previous post, I realize that the process of loneliness and belonging happens on three levels... First at our identity level , w...

As we mature and develop, we naturally grow beyond conventional identities, and eventually beyond identities themselves. First, we shed the ...

This is another thing that keeps coming up for me, especially as I am exploring the soul level more actively these days... Ultimately, there...

I did a phone session with Karen this afternoon, and one of the things that came up for me was the fear of nothingness... and of infinity in...

The Big Mind process is an excellent way of exploring the vulnerable little animal, or at least to get familiar with the landscape enough so...

This has come up for me recently... how I, at my human level, is just a vulnerable little animal, and how all the human drama is wrapped up ...

In terms of avoiding or minimizing inflation, it is safer to actively explore the 2nd, 3rd, and zero person relationships with Big Mind ( s...

There are many ways to relate to and explore Existence as a whole, as God, Big Mind, Brahman, Tao. One is with a second person relationship...

A comment left some days ago made me explore in what ways there is an absence of I in awakening. One, and the most obvious one, is that th...

My main practice is to simply be with what is... to fully allow it, as it is. This automatically shifts identification out of content and mo...