Everybody loves energy. It is everywhere, and manifests in countless ways. Without energy, there is no life. In my tradition, the term for energy is shakti; the shakti is God’s power of manifestation. Spiritual energy is latent, asleep, in each of us. And the term for that spiritual energy is kundalinī-shakti. In order to return home to who we really …
One of the most common and….
One of the most common and damaging mistakes a spiritual aspirant can make is to believe that the shakti will take care of everything.
Shy….
Shy Outgoing Reserved Coarse
Imagination Isn’t Practice….
Sit in the room and be realized. Do not offend anyone or make anyone uncomfortable. Then leave and resume your ordinary habits. Is this what you think sādhana is? Around Baba, there were people who did just sit around and then go home. Their discomfort came from their fellow ashramites, so their interactions and relationships looked very much like the …
The Guru shines a light….
The Guru shines a light on who we think we are, then calls it what it really is and shows us our delusion. Our job is to surrender to what the Guru teaches us.
Pretend….
Pretend Real Insulated Exposed
My Apparently Useless Gift….
When I owned my school of Tai Chi Chuan in Cambridge, Massachusetts, I had a lot of energy. People would feel it and even I would be overwhelmed by it, yet I had no wisdom. People thought I was something more than I was because they were entranced with the energy and identified me with it. The energy knew things; …
Shakti enlivens….
Shakti enlivens. Where there is no wisdom, it will enliven ignorance.
Self-sufficient….
Self-sufficient Dependent Unteachable Learner
Speaking Freely….
For many, free speech is the freedom to say what we want to say. “I can say what I want. This is a free country.” “Everyone has the right to free speech.” What is free speech really? Here in America, we pride ourselves on free speech; it is enshrined in the First Amendment. Of course, there are reasonable restrictions, as …