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A simple seeker was slipping into a mood of overwhelming sorrow. Memories of her first child’s lost battle with a rare form of cancer, before he was old enough to understand what possible purpose his suffering could serve anyone, flooded her mind. But neither did this simple seeker understand then, nor does she now. OfContinue reading “How to Honor the Deceased”

A simple seeker was meditating on the seemingly separate realities of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. “Or past, present, and future?” “Yes.” “Why seemingly separate?” “You know why.” “Yes, but do you?” “Yes. They are continuously and seamlessly woven together.” “What if I suggested that they each exist within the others, at all times and inContinue reading “How Can I Know What is Possible”

“Do you know what the Tarot Hermit card means?” “I seem to relate to it.” “In what way?” “As a solitary seeker.” “How can you consider yourself to be solitary while I’m in your life?” “It’s possible to be alone in a crowd.” “We are not a crowd.” “What difference does it make?” “To what?”Continue reading “How to Function Without Ego”

Spirit was moving too fast, again, in His explanation of the meaning behind the symbolic language of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, and the Ladder of Light, which contains several trees, within or on the ladder. The books generally refer to five trees, but Spirit tells me there are many more than five times five.Continue reading “Harmony is Balance Without Equality”

A simple seeker was deeply engrossed in reading Tera Kathryn 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 in 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 asContinue reading “Evolutionary Buddhism”

A simple seeker was meditating on the concept of emptiness. “What would it look like?” “It wouldn’t look like anything.” “What do you think emptiness means to a spiritual 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”

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 Hermit 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”