Teachings, Poems, and Transmissions
Categories
Topics
- Alliance
- Ancestral healing
- Awakening
- Awareness
- Ayahuasca
- Beauty
- Community
- Compassion
- Dark night of the soul
- Devotion
- Ego
- Emptiness
- Fear
- Foregiveness
- Freedom
- Gratitude
- Great Mystery
- Grief
- Groundlessness
- Harmony
- Humility
- Identity
- Impermanence
- Infinity
- Interspiritual
- Light
- Lineage
- Love
- Meditation
- Mind Virus
- Music
- Mysticism
- Non-attachment
- Non-duality
- Peace
- Power
- Presence
- Purpose
- Relationship
- Rest
- Sensation
- Service
- Shadow work
- Sound
- Spaciousness
- Stillness
- Study
- Surrender
- Syncretism
- Timelessness
An Interspiritual Approach
When we look at the human tradition, we want to see spirituality as an indivisible whole and find an inherent and universal mysticism as the underlying movement of all the great religious leaders—whatever path they followed, whatever path they carved, whichever direction they led. And we want to appreciate the perennial, self-propagating wisdom that continues to sprout through pastures, forests, deserts, mountains, and cities all over the globe.
Closing the Book, Taking Away the Name
At the end of the day, the book will close on the stories. At the end of the day, we won't take any of our belongings with us. And so, while most of the world looks outside for their happiness, for their salvation, for their peace, the right questions turn us around to say that there's only one place that we can look and that is in the direction of where the looking is coming from.
Study and Not Knowing
How can you “study” without “seeking”? How can you want to learn something, while also embracing the Great Mystery?
Embracing the Great Mystery
To know something is a great arrogance. To be in a relationship and say, “I know this person,” is a profound limitation. Where is the space for that person to grow? Where is their freedom to change? Everything changes. Everyone changes. To truly love someone is to be awed by their mystery and open to their evolution. Thinking you know someone is a prison.
Wisdom of the Unknown
When we think we know something, we reduce it to a little box—a theory, an idea that makes us feel comfortable. We forsake the mystery for a false sense of security. However, when we don’t know, we remove the box, the walls, and the limitations. It becomes illimitable, free from concepts and free from our tendency toward complacency—our laziness that tries to place the numinous in a knowable box.