Category: Contemplative Writing
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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
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 traditions of the world have…
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Consciousness and the Wisdom of Not Knowing
A Comparative Essay on Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen Two of the world’s most sophisticated non-dual philosophical traditions, Kashmir Shaivism and Tibetan Dzogchen, arrive at strikingly similar descriptions of ultimate reality while diverging sharply on one fundamental question: whether that reality can be described as a self. Kashmir Shaivism, emerging in ninth-century Kashmir through thinkers such…
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If Humanity Stopped
A Reflection on Sovereignty, Power and the Return to True Nature Consider, for a moment, the Highland Clearances. Between 1750 and 1860, across the mountains and glens of Scotland, an entire people were removed from land they had inhabited for thousands of years. Not by conquest in the battlefield sense. Not by plague or famine…
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The Sacred Pulsation of Heartmind
Spanda, the Flower of Life, and the Śrī Yantra There are two sacred diagrams that have travelled across civilisations, each holding, in the silent language of geometry, something that language can only approach obliquely. The Flower of Life and the Śrī Yantra are not merely symbols. They are enactments. To look at them with genuine…
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