I’d like to make it clear out front that I have gone through all 12 weeks of the daily audio programs and video as this program recommends. I have gone through maybe half, at best, of the enormous amount of video bonus content. This was a program I really dived into during the lockdowns, and […]
In this video from the masterful, often controversial spiritual teacher Osho, he explores the fact that death cannot be escaped. In the attempts to escape death, to avoid confronting the reality of it, we are removed from the present moment. A large amount of activity and stress in life could be traced back to resistance […]
In this video by spiritual teacher Adyashanti, he brings our attention the sense of “the narrator.” The constant stream of thoughts that is commenting on our experience, and our sense of that being who we are. It is a subject he addresses often, and in my opinion, is particularly good at helping people get a […]
Tracks: 01 Blissful Cognition02 Blissful Cognition part 203 Cognitive Bliss I sat up to meditate with the iAwake Gamma 4 tracks this morning without investigating where “Gamma” fit in the frequency world of brainwave meditation. For some reason I assumed it was deeper and more intense than the others, perhaps because I was less familiar with […]
By Michael Ericson In this essay, I will be focusing on one major difference between early and middle era Buddhism: the shift from a focus on attaining Nirvana for oneself to a focus on saving sentient beings and bringing Nirvana to others. The Bodhisattva school, especially as expressed in Shantideva’s “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, […]