Specialness is the ego-mind’s great hidden desire. Even awakening can become incorporated into this desire and, before you know it, you feel special because you have awakened. Of course, “you” are not what awakens. What consciousness wakes up from is you, either as an unworthy “you” or as a special awakened “you.” The ego-mind can attach

It is often the case that when beginning to open to the perspective of “only awareness,” old toxic emotions and thoughts will arise, sometimes vehemently, as the mind and body seek to release old, painful, and dysfunctional aspects of the emotional pain body.

One does not need to seek out one’s demons in an endless pursuit of self-improvement. We simply need to face whatever arises with an honest, open, and inquiring mind and heart.

Here is the direct answer to your question: Simply contemplate the question, What is the world? By contemplate, I mean to simply form the question in your mind. Don’t think about it. Just present the question and relax your awareness as much as possible. That’s the “how.”

By contemplate I mean to identify exactly what fears are driving you. What assumptions are they based on? What are you running from? Rampant thinking is also your mind looking for peace—as if you could think enough or understand enough that your mind could be at peace. But the mind never thinks its way to a lasting peace. In fact, in the mind’s

To call something a thing, or to give it a name, is to conceptually impose boundaries upon it where they do not actually exist. A tree does not exist independently of its environment; it is its total environment. It takes a cosmos to produce a tree—no cosmos, no tree. To say “tree” implies the entire cosmos. The same is true of you.

The egocentric orientation is forever dissatisfied and anticipating the next moment, hoping that it will bring something better. This is the vicious circular delusion that the egocentric mind is addicted to.

Experiencing unity is a bit like getting a joke. The “getting” of a joke is what causes the laughter. In a sense, the getting is the laughter. But we don’t laugh because we have analyzed the joke and come to understand it—we laugh because the joke exposes something about ourselves. It removes the seriousness of the boundaries that we believe in and

Sacred inquiry, in the context of spirituality, is something quite specific and is as much an art as a science. It is using inquiry as a tool to reveal and ultimately transcend our preconceived ideas and opinions so that our consciousness more accurately reflects truth and reality—every question we have arises from within a context of preconceived