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Spirit teaches a simple seeker (and we each and all are more or less simple seekers) a gentle, personal, loving, and intelligent way to live in relationship with all other life forms. We have been born into a society that is not necessarily of our own choosing. That reality is a clue to a moreContinue reading “What Does Spirit Teach?”

A simple seeker was deeply engrossed in reading Tera Kathryne Collin’s “The Three Sisters of Tao.” “It’s possible to read with much less intensity.” “Perhaps, for some, if what they’re reading is for casual entertainment.” “Even some serious students allow themselves some distance from the text.” “Yes, it is as a text, with an importantContinue reading “Feminism and Ancient Wisdom”

A simple seeker was admiring, in her mind (but where else could she admire anything?), a beautiful pink rose that someone had generously shared on Twitter. But, as beautiful as the flower was, something else was going on. Envy was slipping into the picture. “What’s wrong with envy?” “I want to be able to appreciateContinue reading “Experience as a Teacher”

A simple seeker was puzzled by the seemingly contradictory and mutually exclusive (from her albeit limited understanding) terms of evolutionary and Buddhism rolled together, in something she had been reading. “What seems to be the problem?” “Buddhism and evolution together.” “Everything is together.” “But, spirituality should be forever.” “It is.” “But not necessarily as itContinue reading “Evolutionary Buddhism”

A simple seeker was meditating on the concept of emptiness. “What would it look like?” “II wouldn’t look like anything.” “What do you think anything means to a simple seeker, such as yourself?” “Without form.” “What is without form?” “Potential.” “What potential? “Any and all.” “Where does this emptiness, which is potential, exist?” “Perhaps, whereverContinue reading “Emptiness is Never Empty”

“It’s still the same old story – a fight for love and glory. A case of do or die…” Will the next civilization remember us, as time goes by? “Here today and gone tomorrow.” Or, “What’s it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live?” There’s also that seemingly nonsense verse thatContinue reading “It’s Still the Same Old Story”

A simple seeker was meditating on a card she had pulled randomly from her Tarot deck, a lone figure with a lantern. “Do you know what lived experience The Hermi card expresses?” “I seem to relate to it.” “In what way?” “As a solitary seeker.” “How can you consider yourself to be solitary while I’mContinue reading “Ego as Our Life Force”

A simple seeker was meditating on the concept of separation, and how it might differ from differentiation. “What seems to be the problem?” “Seems to be, or is?” “Seems to be, in the minds of some.” “In the minds of some?” “Yes.” “But not in all?” “Not in all.” “But, if all minds are individualContinue reading “Differentiation vs Separation”

A simple seeker was enjoying, or might have been enjoying, a glorious summer afternoon on her precious patio. A late-blooming bluish-purple clematis was stretching as open as it could go, seeming determined to enjoy as much as it could of the gently moving air. It seemed to sense, as did the lavender, which was alsoContinue reading “Deep Breathing”

A simple seeker was practicing slow and deep breathing, to calm her over-charged emotions after reading a passionate post of a patriotic soul, concerning her homeland, or at least the land of her birth. The young journalist (Did it require youth to care so deeply?) was obviously very agitated by what happened, was now happening,Continue reading “Compassion Has a History”