Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament

The real question is not whether you like things, it’s why are you not okay with them? The reason is actually quite simple: because you can’t digest them. It’s hard to let some experiences just pass through without residual disturbance.

Instead of paying attention, you’re getting so uptight about wanting butterflies, and not wanting rattlesnakes, that you’re losing your centered awareness. When the world around you comes in and hits, or activates, your stored patterns, you can no longer observe reality objectively. Your consciousness gets drawn into the activated samskaras, and ev

The final technique we will discuss for freeing yourself from yourself is generally termed witness consciousness, and it includes the powerful practice of relaxing and releasing.

The truth is the whole world is a giant Rorschach test. The world is a flow of atoms unfolding in front of you. It’s no more personal than the inkblots. But it’s hitting your samskaras, and that stimulates stored mental and emotional reactions. Now, instead of experiencing what is passing by outside, you are experiencing the likes, dislikes, belief

Changing your relationship with your mind is a major part of the spiritual journey. You don’t do this by fighting with the mind and resisting thoughts. You do this by learning not to listen to the mind. You are the consciousness, and the mind is the object of consciousness.

Feelings of loss or fear or anger in your heart are just objects of consciousness that Self is experiencing. They cannot harm you, unless you resist them.

First let go of your personal reaction so that you can serve the situation to the best of your ability.

This peace comes over you and stays for no reason, completely unconditionally—that’s what your higher heart has to offer you. This is the gift of your spiritual heart.

good technique is to tie the mantra to your breath going in and out. Then during the day, come back to it whenever certain events occur. For example, you could say a few repetitions of the mantra before you pick up the phone and after you put it down.

There is a higher level of our being, and those lower energies can be raised up. You have access to a much higher way to deal with inner energies than to simply step aside and let them express. That doesn’t mean they should be suppressed. Your choices are not limited to expression or suppression. As we will discuss, there’s a third choice, transmut