#9 The Universe in Ecstatic Motion

Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment

By Dorothy Hunt

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

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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.

A Full Awareness of the Feelings

By Jack Kornfield

For many meditators, reclaiming an awareness of feelings is a long and difficult process. Yet in Buddhist psychology bringing consciousness to feelings is critical for awakening.

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.

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

One good way to understand religion is to break it apart

By Joseph Blankholm

A freer way of understanding is to grasp what we’ve been asked to know and hold it for a moment at a distance.

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.

The Real

By Lalla

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

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.

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.

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.”

The Sun Never Says

By Hafiz

A timeless treasure of unconditional love

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

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#22 Embodying the Unknown

With Ellen Emmet

Touching into listening, embodiment, the shadow, and devotion with teacher and author Ellen Emmet

Meditating the World through Compassion

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

Compassion is the ability, by Awareness, to recognize and acknowledge only itself everywhere.

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.

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?

I know nothing

By Diane Gagné

I was clinging desperately to knowledge... Dressing it up like a costume

Take Off Your Spiritual Mask

I am in love with this blessed mess of our humanity, more than ever.

Science and Nonduality are One

By J.Paul Jordaans

Separation or Unity, solving or dissolving

Vimalakirti Opens the Nondual Gate

By James Ford

From his sickbed, Vimalakirti attains insight so deep that even Manjusri, the manifestation of profound wisdom bows to listen

A Teaching Story about Gratitude

By Robert Frager

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

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

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

A poem on the impact of resurrection.

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.

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...

What Are You Looking For?

By J. Krishnamurti

To find answers about love and relationships that transcend time, culture, religion, read What Are You Looking For?