Category: An Ocean Journey
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THE SOUL MIND AND THE EGO MIND
There are two minds at work in us. The soul mind, which we can also call the Heartmind, is what remains constant beneath all conditions. It arises as love and as wise action. It does not change with circumstance because it does not depend on circumstance. The ego mind is different. It is based in…
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LOVE
If we are the ocean, moving for a while in a shape called you, then what is the water? The answer I have come to, after many years, is love.
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FEAR
A Note Before Beginning I have drawn on Kashmir Shaivism, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Christianity, Sufism, Taoism, the psychology of Carl Jung, and the testimony gathered from near death experience and from Allan Kardec’s The Spirits’ Book. The paths these traditions walk are not identical, and I do not believe they need to be for what…
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WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?
Something has been known for a very long time. Not by one tradition. Not in one place. Not by one name. By many people, in many centuries, in many languages, who arrived at the same ground by different paths. A Christian mystic in medieval Germany. A Kashmiri philosopher in the tenth century. A Persian poet…
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AWAKENING OF THE HEARTMIND
I went to India because I had to. There is no simpler way to say it. Every obstacle fell away. The pull was that strong. But that pull had been building for years. Long before India, something was already stirring in me. Questions about the meaning of life, about what lay beneath the surface of…
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FRIENDSHIP
The Sacred Ground of Friendship There is a kind of friendship most of us have touched at least once in life. A moment of unexpected honesty from someone we trusted. A silence shared with another person in which we felt, without any words, completely known. These moments are easy to miss. But the great wisdom…
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THE WAVE AND THE OCEAN OF LOVE
Close your eyes for a moment. Imagine the sea. Not a stormy sea. A gentle one. Early morning, perhaps, when the light is just beginning to soften the horizon, and the water moves in long, slow rhythms, as if breathing. Now watch a single wave. See how it rises. How it finds its shape, its…
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THE OCEAN OF HEARTMIND
Some realisations arrive quietly, through years of practice and study. Others arrive in a single moment, written in red on your forehead.I was in Hampi, India — an ancient sacred site of extraordinary power, where vast boulders rise from the earth like the bones of some primordial world. Walking through one of the temples, I…
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