What is the mission? This question is rarely asked, yet it is assumed we are all on board with the mission. We assume we are all on the same mission. In the Absolute sense, we are, but from relative reality, most of the time we are not. Our sense of how to function on a mission arises from our understanding …
If the goal is….
If the goal is to preserve the individual, the real mission fails.
Prop up others….
Prop up others Dismiss others Create a false reality Accept reality
Guest Blog by Ian Ralby: Nirbīja Sādhana….
I have always known, conceptually at least, that spiritual practice has to be a constant and consistent endeavor. Rohini has said it thousands of times: to make any progress, you have to practice no matter what you are doing, whether teaching a class, riding a bike or cleaning a toilet. But somehow I am only just now discovering that I …
If you want to be a human being….
If you want to be a human being, you have to be willing to let go of your individuality.
Bitter….
Bitter Content Clearsighted Oblivious
Liberation….
Liberation is utterly different from what most people imagine it to be. Baba always made clear that liberation is not for the individual. He always stressed that the individual cannot be liberated, and that the only way to liberation is to give up our attachment to and wrong identification with any separate identity. I specifically went to Baba because that …
An intellectual grasp….
An intellectual grasp of non-duality is all very well, but to know and inhabit that Reality requires a long and arduous grinding down of the individual identity.
Self-sufficient…
Self-sufficient Incapable Isolated Open to Help
Climbing the False Mountain….
Self-esteem is nothing more than the small self’s opinion of itself. It is a tale told by an idiot. Any education that prioritizes self-esteem is a course in unreality; it leads the student on a needless journey across an imaginary landscape of illusory meadows and false mountains. When we fixate on self-esteem, we fall prey to the delusion that accomplishment …