When I was a child, my parents worked in our yard. We lived in Waban, Massachusetts. Lots of rock. We had rock walls and rock gardens, with a very …
Misreading Power As Love….
Baba used to say that Christ was the incarnation of Love. Christ showed us what Love is. He Loved without qualification; there was no arbitrariness in His Love for all. …
The Guru Is Not Your Enemy….
The Guru is not out to get you. The shakti is not out to crush you. There may be times when you are convinced that they are out to ruin …
Playing the Field….
When we start on the path of sadhana, though we may understand that there is something greater than who we think we are, we tend to operate as if sadhana …
Feeling This Loss….
Community is so important for all of us. We are a family made up of people who are wanting Love. This path we have all chosen is not always easy. …
Family Recipes….
“Life will be easier if I don’t practice.” Why will it be easier? If we practice we will have to face what we have. But we don’t want to face …
How To Use a Fourchotomy….
To work with a fourchotomy, you have to begin by being honest with yourself. This means being willing to hear your honest, unfiltered answer in the moment; if you pause …
What Is a Fourchotomy….
The world appears to us as we choose to see it. Most of us see the world in binary terms, framing our experience in pairs of opposites. These pairs of …
The One True Sacrifice….
The last blog established how “sacrifice” can be a destructive force. From this point of view, sacrifice is a negation; it implies scapegoating, discarding, abandoning. It is not sacrifice, though, …
What We Are Willing To Sacrifice….
We all live by rules, assumed rules. We live by unconscious rules that are so embedded in us that we believe they are universal. But when we reflect, we see …