Tea Time

I haven’t been very happy with my lifestyle for some time now.  So, I decided to shake things up.  I canceled my cable subscription!  I’m not one of those evangelists who think that T.V. is the root of all evil.  In fact, I’m quite the opposite; I love T.V., and cable in particular.  I can [...]

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Intuition

In the practice of Self-Discovery, you have to learn to trust your brain less, and your intuition more.  Your brain is often the voice of your limited self, or ego.  It tells you things that promote its agenda.  The ego’s job is to defend and enforce its view of the world, which is a dualistic [...]

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Perspective

It’s raining… again.  Don’t get me wrong, I love the rain, it just feels like it has been raining forever.  But it hasn’t.  It was gorgeous just a couple of days ago.  It just seems like it has been raining forever because of my perspective, my viewpoint, my way of looking at things at this [...]

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Energy Lines

All systems of yoga recognize the existence of an energy body that surrounds our physical body.  This body is made up of luminous fibers of light.  If you’ve ever seen any of Alex Grey’s paintings, you’ll have a pretty good idea what these ‘look like’ to those with the perceptual ability to see them.  In [...]

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Thoughts

We have a lot of thoughts rattling around in our heads, but did you know that not all of them are your own?  You are psychic whether you are aware of the fact or not.  And, you’re picking up thoughts from the people in your close physical proximity, and from people you are emotionally connected [...]

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Water

I took a Facebook wilderness survival quiz the other day and one of the questions was about the ‘rule of the 3s’, you can survive 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food.  Me?  I’m not sure I could survive a day without water.  Yes, we all need water to [...]

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Impermanence

I was driving a rental car yesterday that had XM satellite radio, and I tuned in a station called the Coffee House.  They play acoustic versions of hit songs, usually performed by some young unknown artist.  They call them Coffee Covers.  Most were songs I knew pretty well, but one I’d never heard before was [...]

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Putting the Pieces Back Together

Lately, I’ve been in a mode where I am getting rid of old junk.  I’ve had at least a couple of computers, functioning, literally, as doorstops for the last 3 years.  Time to get rid of them.  Getting rid of computers is more complicated than it sounds… the hard drives may have personal data on [...]

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Practicing for the Bardo

I often wonder how well I’ll do the next time I enter the bardo, and go through the Tibetan Rebirth process.  I figure, if I’m alive and living in this world now, I’ve failed thus far to recognize the Clear Light of Reality in various forms, and probably got hung up in the Desire and [...]

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Dream Yoga

The Tibetan Book of the Dead details the Tibetan Rebirth Process, which is a means by which we can evolve (or devolve) from lifetime to lifetime.  The problem is that it is so darn slow.  There is an entire lifetime between iterations.  And, you only get one shot at it, at a time when you [...]

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