If you’re a traditional spiritualist, you’ll have surely heard the adage “attachment is the root of all suffering.” Coined by the Buddha, the essence of this idea is that if you can remove all attachment from your life, you can remove all suffering as well. Albeit, quite extreme in its approach, there is actually a much more grounded way of approaching the elimination of all suffering through a contemporary lens.
Read MoreClassically, we’ve all been trained to believe that the path to Wisdom is a combination of Knowledge plus Experience (W = K + E). However, when really analyzing this model, there comes a point where you realize that the equation is dangerously incomplete.
Read MoreWhen examined far enough, there are actually only really two main traditions that dominate our society: the Vedic tradition and the Abrahamic one.
From these two roots sprang forth a giant tree with derivative branches known as Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism (for the former); and Judaism, Christianity and Islam (for the latter).
Read MoreWhen we talk about Mastery, we often think about an endpoint. Some moment in time in which there is nothing left to learn because we have completed every task and unlocked every achievement within a specific skillset. Whether it’s cooking, tennis, basketball, martial arts, or yoga, we all think that the point of Mastery is some magical endpoint in which all learning stops.
Read MoreIn truth, we are all already Enlightened. We all have perspectives relative to that which we once knew. The question is: how much perspective do you wish to gain?
Read MoreConsciousness (our Active Awareness) is the Infinite Animate Energy of the known universe and the mind is the mirror upon which that consciousness can reflect. No mirror, no identification states, no you, non-separation.
Read MoreSo, which do you want yourself to be—Player 1 to your own life experience, or just another NPC living out the rat race, being yet another cog in the grand machine?
Read MoreNow, before you start going all mystical on me, understand this: the primary reason why the field of Quantum Physics is so “sexy” right now is because it’s unknown.
Read MoreIt’s not what an animal thinks, but what an animal feels in the moment that guides them. They do not strategize or plan out the next few days in order to get their way; they simply act in accordance with the elements that they are given at that singular point in time.
Read MoreLife, ultimately, is a profound experience that is meant to be appreciated for as long as it lasts; if only for the simple reason that it never lasts.
Read MoreWhatever the limitation of that mind’s knowledge, that is as far back as it will go when understanding what it is becoming aware of.
Read MoreThe best way to enact change is to be change. Do what you want to do, daily, and you will have become that - as the sheer act of pursuing is what makes you that.
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