Everything is transient – meaning it does not last. We are transient in this life. Everything and everyone we know will change their current form. This knowledge gives us the freedom to go and do what we truly want to do. Transience is talk 22 of 27 in the Tantric Buddhism series. © ℗ 1990,…
In the path of affirmation (religion), we improve our lives. But after many lifetimes of religious practices, what’s next? The path of negation (Tantra) is a path where we go back through all the experiences we avoided in our religious lifetimes and in the process we negate the self. We come to see and experience…
“In order to practice magic, you need only one thing — awareness. We have other selves that are not of this world, of this time, of this cycle. We are ancient beings, evolving forward and backwards simultaneously; we are not structured in time. We are eternal travelers, eternal voyagers — appearing to be here when…
The message of the Bhagavad Gita is to fight, to act, to play our part in life. If we work well then we discipline our mind and body and the strength that results stays with us and leaves the body with us. The Bhagavad Gita also urges us to seek enlightenment to go beyond the…
“The universe is actually alive. It is intelligence — an intelligence that far surpasses anything that has yet been seen or dreamed or imagined. And you enter into that intelligence. You are it. You’re a reflection of it. But to see it all, to be it, to be that totality — that’s what attracts a…
“Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once — to be in the world and of it, to enjoy it, to participate in it fully and successfully, and at the same time, to not be here at all — to be in realms of light, to be in samadhi, beyond all this. That’s…
“A person is made up of awarenesses. These awarenesses all exist in the unknown — now we’re moving into what don Juan calls “the sorcerer’s explanation”. It’s the explanation of life. All of the awareness that has ever been or will ever be, exist, he says, like barges floating in the ocean. It’s a…