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Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Dec 15th, 2009
As we noodle down the treacherous and oft overwhelming path ala enlightenment, many of us pound our heads against spiky walls out of sheer paradoxical frustration. It seems every luminous enlightenment being speaks a different language. Sometimes it feels like no one is really pointing at the same moon – that this is all a [...]
Posted in The Path of Enlightenment on Dec 4th, 2009
I’m in a perpetual “wha?” state as of late, more than a little flummoxed by the odd energies I’ve fallen into. My chosen perspective in the highest sense is to embrace said-frustration, say yay to my mass confusion, and transcend the urge to, well, feel it. That only feels like half the [...]
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 Nov 3rd, 2009
Enlightenment is a gas, really. Line up 10 enlightened peeps, and they’ll give you 10 different explanations for what it is. AND they’ll argue that some of their peers ARE and AREN’T enlightened, thereby flummoxing the surrounding seekers all the more. This is, of course, a gigantic favor. Since I understand unequivocally now that my [...]
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 [...]
