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Feb 05 2017

Spiritual Awakening & the Modern Age

How might one attain to spiritual awakening in the modern world, in these complex times? In this article we look back at the two main historical models for spiritual training, and propose a contemporary approach for today.

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101, The Path Tagged With: monastic, spiritual awakening, yogic

Aug 31 2014

Spiritual Healing

The ongoing, mapped process of awakening is the ultimate spiritual healing. With awakening, the self is transcended, and thus the troubles of the self, of “me,” “my troubles,” are healed. Though any organism is inherently subject to decay and death, the process of awakening also includes actual physical healing. The agent of the healing is […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101, The Path Tagged With: compassion, dana, ego, habits, Spaciousness, spiritualawakening, triplegem, union

Oct 22 2013

What is Awakening?

This is the billion-dollar question, one that defies words. What we can say is this: central to the experience of awakening is a way of experiencing life that completely transcends the usual. Most people believe that Christ realization, Buddhist awakening, and the paths of the shaman are different, and perhaps this is true. However, the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Dharma 101

Oct 18 2013

Awakening: Beyond the Illusion of Self

Quantum physics as well as tradition Buddhist philosophy teach us that nothing in the universe remains the same for even a second. Thus we know that everything we hold and cherish will also pass on and out of our lives, if only at death. This may feel frightening initially, but acceptance allows us to enter […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: bodyspeechmind, death, dukkhaaniccaanatta, ego, freedom, mindfulness, science, spiritualawakening

Oct 14 2013

Awakening and What’s in the Mirror

I dream, I hope, I work, I love, I play, I dream, I eat. These verbs are all about me. Working, hoping, dreaming, loving, eating all continue, even when there is no ‘me’. Who is this ‘me’? Or is it a what? Is ‘me’ a person, a thing, an idea, a feeling? It’s all of […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: conditioning, dreams, dukkhaaniccaanatta, ego, samsaranirvana, senses, skandas, spiritualawakening

Oct 10 2013

Waking Within the Dream

When you wake up in the morning you leave behind one world — the dreaming world — and find yourself in another world — waking life. These two worlds or states share similarities. In Tibetan Buddhism they’re two of six states termed ‘bardos’, or ‘in-between states’. Sensing, emotion and thoughts exist in both. When we […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: consciousness, ego, spiritualawakening

Aug 16 2013

Trust and Awakening

I once asked Namgyal Rinpoche if trust was awakening. His response was: ‘Complete trust is complete awakening’. So the question may be, what (or whom) are you trusting? We need to remember of course that the ego only trusts itself, which is a very poor choice, as the ego by its nature is tied to […]

Filed Under: Awakening, Blog, Dharma 101 Tagged With: spiritualawakening

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