Sublime

dialogues), to awareness-based collective action (ABC)—that is, to forms through which the system can sense and see itself and adjust accordingly.

Maharishi Sadashiva Isham, the teacher of my Bright Path Ishaya teacher once said: “The simple guiding principle here is this: if we are sowing division, preaching destruction, seeking or finding evil in the world (even if we are looking for it with the intention of removing it!), then we are part of the problem, not the cure.”

On this level our work focuses on getting our (old) self out of the way in order to open a space, a clearing, that allows for a different sense of presence to manifest.

Finally, while the human teacher is important, if we spend our whole life trying to follow spiritual teachers, something is wrong (10.32).

One of the most widely respected non-dual teachers today is Adyashanti, who originally studied Zen formally but began to teach more direct path style after his awakening. Adyashanti recommends trying out the inquiry “what am I?”, which I found to land better than Ramana’s “who am I?”. The word “who” can tend to evoke dimensions of identity, which c

Along with the primary theme of letting go of our attachments, especially to self-image, this book attempts to bridge the gap in contemporary yoga between practice and theory. My aim is to not only reconcile theory and practice but to explore how both theory and practice come alive when integrated in daily life.

Blind spots appear in individuals, groups, institutions, societies, and systems; they reveal themselves in our theories and concepts in the form of deep epistemological and ontological assumptions.

The key to transformation is self-awareness. A transformational leader helps participants bring attention to hidden assumptions, which are often part of our default stories or identities, such as the lost child or hard-hearted person. We do this through the safe witnessing of habitual thinking and judgments.

it is also important that we realize that the teacher is a traveler too, a person continuing on their own spiritual journey