Feel into the shared trauma of human conflict.
(based on earlier page published on primemeditation.com in 2011) Many who meditate often see through some suffering, as well as achieve some level of wisdom, through their practice. However, the same people might find meditation to be overly demanding, ineffective, vague, difficult to apply, easy to neglect, misleading, stagnant, or dogmatic. Also, something often feels…
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Today I’m going to distinguish between two types of spiritual practice: focused and lateral. One caveat is that I would like you to contemplate on the word ‘lateral’ and let that intuitively sink in. It might hit you, or it might not — people I’ve talked to experienced a direct shift in their thinking through…
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Eckhart Tolle’s message of ‘dropping thoughts’, along with many other pop-spiritual teachings of dropping concepts, thoughts, ideas, and beliefs, ultimately is a distorted one. Supreme wisdom is the realization that thought and no-thought are non-separate. This is a relating process more than a dropping process. Non-separation isn’t realized by dropping thoughts or projected barriers. Non-separation…
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A great challenge for me – anyone – is keeping the judgmental process outside of the perspectives we either express or own. What does that mean? It means taking the ‘objective’ component out of the ‘subjective’ process of communication. Why would we want to do this? Isn’t this a step backwards? Actually not. Whether you…
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Pain can be interpreted in a couple of different ways. The standard interpretation of pain is that it interferes with our life flow, preventing us from experiencing the lifestyle we want. This immature interpretation of pain is called dukkha — suffering. The mature interpretation of pain is that it represents nature communicating something to us…
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There’s a famous self-help principle called ‘Constant and Neverending Improvement’. I think it’s a great ideal, though for the purpose of meditation, I like to tweak it and say ‘Constant and Neverending Maturity’ is what we’re looking for. Ok, so what’s the difference? Well, maturity, ultimately, is the consummate fulfillment of our life experience. It…
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