Our human brains are amazing in the ability to name, claim, and label appearances and to compare one appearance to another. We are convinced we are separate beings in a tangible world of eight billion other separate beings. In Truth, absolute Truth, not relative truth, there is only edgeless, empty, awareness appearing as this and that. This realization, this awakening, shocks the human perception and brain and plunges the long-held belief of being and existing …
I’m passing along this announcement for the upcoming TAT virtual retreat. Love, Friendship, and the Return Home A Virtual TAT Spiritual Retreat Weekend September 11-12 2021 “Intentional self-inquiry is a conscious attempt to get congruent with what life’s trying to do for us. This could be described as going Home…So how do you go “Home” when you don’t know where it is…?” ~Art Ticknor, Beyond Relativity, p. 107 Where did we come from? Where are we …
I am happy to share the news about Bart’s (my spiritual teacher) newest book — now available on Amazon. I’ve already ordered my copy and it sounds like a page-turner. I am sure this book will fuel deep and earnest discussions in self-inquiry groups. Here is a book blurb from Bart’s website RealFacePress: This is a book about spiritual enlightenment—what it is, how it happened for me, and how you might live in such a …
We’re conditioned to perceive life/reality as unfolding inside or outside a person/body. This caged way of perceiving life is held by the vast majority of humans and is the root of all emotional and psychological suffering. It’s been said by many folks, many times…with our thoughts we create our world. This is how the brain/mind works…conceptualizing, rationalizing, and objectifying what is perceived…and this is how we are programmed and trapped in the mind’s naming, claiming, and labeling …
Nondual philosophy slowly migrated to the United States as the foundational teachings of many ancient Eastern spiritual practices for perceiving and experiencing a peaceful life. This fundamental foundation includes the teachings of Zen, Tao, Vedanta, and Sufism, along with the mystical Christian teachings of Jesus the Christ, St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart, St. Teresa of Avila, as well as the Perennial Wisdom literature and teachings. These ancient philosophies of “not two” point towards …
The human brain is programmed to spew all manner of beliefs, concepts, and intriguing tidbits but not to a separate or personal you. Seeing, hearing, tasting, touching – all perceiving and sensating is mental in nature even if biological in truth. What is is an appearance of edgeless, seamless, uncaused, no-thing-ness appearing, reflecting, and refracting as aware presence, or consciousness as a dream of itself. This life appears so real and tangible when we believe …
I believed I could experience awakening. Bart Marshall, my teacher, set me straight and let me know awakening is uncaused and spontaneous…appearing to no one and beyond the beliefs of time and space. Perhaps like me, you believe, or you want to believe, you can experience awakening…but you cannot…but this doesn’t stop seekers from longing to awaken and be present for the experience of awakening. Not going to happen. Awakening is a very simple (too simple) and …
