#4 Entering the Bardo

Thoughts on Addiction and a Contemplative Life

By Richard Simonelli

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says that alcohol is “cunning, baffling and powerful” in its cause of the disease of alcoholism.

Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment

By Dorothy Hunt

Do you think peace requires an end to war? Or tigers eating only vegetables?

Electrical Engineering and the Meaning of Life

By Richard Turilli

The measure of resistance in electrical engineering is called the Ohm. Although this Ohm has no known relation to the common Eastern chants with the same sound, it was no doubt a coincidence

A Buddhist teacher’s meditations on confronting white supremacy

By David Montgomery and Lama Rod Owens

Lama Rod Owens is interviewed by David Montgomery for The Washington Post on Love and Rage, spiritual activism, Buddhism and white supremacy.

Waking, Dreaming, Being

By Vikram Zutshi

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

Changing The Story

“The only way to change the world is to change the story.” We know only too well the story that defines…

Brahma

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, I am the hymn the Brahmin sings.

A Teaching Story about Gratitude

By Robert Frager

from The Wisdom of Islam: An Introduction to the Living Experience of Islamic Belief and Practice

Dependent Origination

By Christina Feldman

The process of dependent origina­tion is sometimes said to be the heart or the essence of all Buddhist teaching. What is described in the process is the way in which suffering can arise in our lives, and the way in which it can end.

Like a raven in the wind

By Pema Chödrön

Renunciation is realizing that our nostalgia for wanting to stay in a protected, limited, petty world is insane

One Song

By Rumi

All religions, all this singing, one song...

The Real

By Lalla

Lalla (14th centrury) was a great saint and mystic from the Kashmir province of India.

Samhain

By History.com

Samhain is a pagan religious festival originating from an ancient Celtic spiritual tradition. In modern times, Samhain is usually celebrated from October 31 to November 1 to welcome in the harvest and usher in “the dark half of the year.”

Everyone Thinks (It's Me)

By Jeffrey Nirenberg

We are born into the world as one and we have no idea of ‘me’, the separate self, for some time until it is gradually instilled upon us by the environment and our developing mind.

The SANDs of Time Flow Through Space Arrive as Knowledge

By Newcomb Greenleaf

Consciousness is not a thing. Asking “What is consciousness?” is like asking “Where does light come from?”, while watching a movie.

The look of love is different from the look of thought

By J. Krishnamurti

...As you walk back by the little farmhouses, the meadows, and the railway line, you will see that yesterday has come to an end: life begins where thought ends...

Trauma and Awakening for Highly Sensitive People

By Jules De Vitto

There are still several unanswered questions surrounding the relationship between trauma and Highly Sensitive People.

EVERYTHING is included!

By Joan Tollifson

Waking Up to the Wonder of Here and Now...

A Conversation with Nothing

By Jessica Summers

Nothing would do what is required in each moment without a point of view of how others see it. Greatness is a judgement from the outside or, if it is from the inside, then it is a judgement that you are less-than.

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#9 The Universe in Ecstatic Motion

With Mona Haydar

In this live SAND Conference talk Mona offers some beautiful sacred wisdom from her Islamic tradition with that special Science and Nonduality flavor weaving her talk through the ancient and the modern, the light and dark in this talk.

Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

A poem on the impact of resurrection.

Shadow and Nonduality: A Cry of the Heart

By Ellen Emmet

What am I up to when, with a couple of blindingly luminous formulations, I claim to take my stand as Awareness and to allow everything, free from resistance, effortlessly?

The Absolute

By Sri Chinmoy

No mind, no form, I only exist;

brain-heart

According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.

Stand as if you see God

By Ben Bushill

Stand as if you see creation before your eyes and know know that your belonging is undeniable and complete...

Listen to the Listening

By Eric Baret

It is very important not to focus on perception