Desert. It can mean going through the barren dryness and loneliness of meditation. Knowing the desert through meditation. The sun dries everything up. The higher
Étiquette : spirituality
Holy Gardening
The evolution of religions as well as the way spiritualities expand, can never be detached from time. As we move along this axis, we are
Naima (Secret Code)
If there were only one song I’d wish to play for the rest of my days, it would be Naima, by John Coltrane. A single
Slide Underneath All Layers
There are many levels of consciousness : each of them is a world in itself. Each of them providing a different or deeper angle Each
“Off-Balance”
There is no better way to describe how we sometimes feel. The problem is we are often unable to use this term when we actually
Compulsive Sign Readers
« Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. » Ikkyu and, doing so, beware of the risk
What’s left ? (A non-thought experience)
(inspired by Ramana Maharshi’s words, as collected by David Godman, in Be Who You Are) All of the world’s experience that we have can be
The Leap of Faith
Could we jump off our ill-being
To the pure heart of Being ?
Now, Look
Coming back to basics Again, again, and again Until it becomes natural Until it remembers being natural Until it finds back its own place –
Freely spinning off from the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (note)
The negation from the ‘I as a doer’ (Ramana Maharshi, as reported in David Godman’s Be as you are) is quite different from the negation
Note on a Night Practice
As he was practising, lying between two sleeping phases, from the middle of the inner quest toward the Self, he realised there was really nothing
Loving People (Quote)
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Not our bodies, not our minds (Quote)
We are not our bodies, not our minds We are what has brought us to believe we were them and what has brought us
Where were you when it first clicked ?
So subtle, so subtle were you there when the protection clicked ? were you there to smile and defuse it ? Left unchecked, the circuit
Ex/in/sup : the Three steps of Spirituality
After having browsed a certain range of spiritual expressions, within a single tradition or through several practices and communities, or as a result of instant
Notes & Silence 