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Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Mar 24th, 2010
Back in January, Orion, myself, and 4 other Vegas friends traveled to central Cali and attended a Vipassana meditation retreat. Vipassana is a very specific meditation technique, taught piece by piece throughout the ten days. Here is the basic framework for this experience: * Takes place in a remote retreat * Men and women [...]
Posted in Aftermaths and In-Betweens, Tantra Revelations on Jan 26th, 2010
Two very distinct and paradoxical reasons have kept me from blogging lately: 1) So bloody much has happened it’s daunting to try and cover all the ground in a genuine, detailed fasion 2) Much of what keeps transpiring is from the space where words cannot go, so how does the unreal ego / identity self [...]
Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Nov 13th, 2009
It’s a phrase that has been running in my noggin incessantly these days — “Nothing is as it seems.” But what does that mean, exactly? What am I trying to tell myself with this bizarre little nugget of wisdom? It came to me today. During coffee with a new / old soul that has already [...]
Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Oct 6th, 2009
Intellectually, I know what’s transpiring. I have poured myself into integrity, into finding out my true self, and relinquishing the ego’s stronghold. I have declared truth at all costs, willing to feel whatever I must to liberate. But oh my fucking god, sometimes I feel like it’s killing me. (That’s that small me talking, and [...]
Posted in Unrelated Truth-Pours on Feb 23rd, 2009
I’m ready to admit that I am light years away from outsmarting my ego. I am also realizing, more and more, that this quest for authenticity is a bigger game than I could have ever realized. I know the lines I write in this public space aren’t always the absolute truth. Whatever that is. I [...]
