by Infinite Smile | Nov 10, 2018 | Blog, Book: Awake in This Life
I wrote about this a while back. Seems relevant for us all: “Fundamentalism arises when any religious organization, or any person, attaches so intensely to some version of truth that it must be defended. In this space, the ego continually seeks security by playing out...
by Infinite Smile | May 23, 2011 | Blog, Book: Awake in This Life
This post was originally offered in June of 2008 as part of the book, Awake in This Life. ___ When the ego’s activity of identification begins to be exposed to a more expansive awareness within us, it begins to resist what it perceives as a loss of all it has...
by Infinite Smile | Nov 2, 2010 | Blog, Book: Awake in This Life
This entry comes from the book, Awake in This Life. _____ Only a Buddha with a Buddha realizes enlightenment. Lotus Sutra All real living is meeting. Martin Buber When I see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see that I am everything, that is love. And...
by Infinite Smile | Jun 11, 2009 | Blog, Book: Awake in This Life
I’ve been reading and listening to lots of conflict over the past several days. Along with the recent killing of the doctor who performs abortions as well as yesterday’s shooting at the Holocaust Museum, it got me thinking about some writing I did on this...
by Infinite Smile | Jun 26, 2008 | Blog, Book: Awake in This Life
Choosing to become intimate with Awareness requires a constancy of both attention and intention. Neither the attention, nor the intention, is a fixed entity, and yet they can easily become attachments if we aren’t careful. On the other hand, if we don’t...
by Infinite Smile | Jun 15, 2008 | Blog, Book: Awake in This Life
As we come off the Mountain of Spirit, we recognize how little about us needs to be defended. This is because we have begun to build lives out of our realization of Emptiness. This Emptiness is the Source of everything. This Source, once again, is totally still and...
