Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

The ‘True” Teacher........................................................................ Why are so many of you out there conv ...

Look, I am 70 years old. Maybe I have another ten years of teaching. I am in a hurry too. I hate watching people cling to their ...

else to go on for years but being trapped in these concepts and projections flowing out of a need for security and a projected o ...

often spoke non sense. I think they would smile to hear me say that. If they were alive, I would tell people, “Go to Nisargadatt ...

It allows you to be open to your own truth. What do you know with complete certainty? Don’t you see, this has plowed the field o ...

and I helped her see through the concepts that trapped her in that dead marriage as well as the truth behind Robert’s words, whi ...

her body, and the mind was seen to be like a clear bubble filled with junk. You see, it is this kind of student I look for, some ...

concepts, whether those of society, or Ramana. Develop a clear mind.” But this message is usually lost on beginners who need to ...

Ramana, Siddharameshwar and Nisargadatta.............................. Siddharameshwar, Nisargadatta’s teacher had a somewhat di ...

the knowledge of the body and the mind, leaving one empty and sensitive to more subtle layers. Next is what he called the Suprac ...

another within oneself, and realizing you are love itself. The Self, which is Turiya, is perfect love, devotion and surrender. W ...

time. You become ordinary, watching or participating in life; it becomes your “choice.” Siddharameshwar is both Jnani and Bhakti ...

Thus was born the beginnings of getting your wants and needs fulfilled through various adaptive strategies, including using your ...

First you have unknowing, not knowing. Then knowningness came and then it went, back and forth. But you always existed. You real ...

experience, but YOU, as the ultimate which holds even the ‘I Am’, and God, and the world in existence are beyond all that. The t ...

Sex and the Guru In the early 1970s I studied Zen with several Zen masters, including Maezumi Roshi and Sasaki Roshi. During a t ...

To me, at the time, awakening was something extraordinary that happened to you which totally transformed you into something supe ...

During the 1970s, Zen was most popular. There were at least a dozen famous Zen masters in the US, and most of them became embroi ...

Yet, he was very open all the time, talking publically about his failures as perceived by others, and also by himself. He felt s ...

This area exposes the issue of trust and surrender, which I will not discuss here, but will at a different time. This is still a ...