One day, you may need to embody a different kind of humanity — Most people’s lives are caught at the level of their body. Building it at the gym, refining their attractiveness, & chasing physical comfort. They think this will make them happy — or at least prevent the deepest kinds of sadness. Others get snared at the level of speech. Hyper-social; they’re…

Just make sure you know what to do with it — I offer you an apology. For the sake of cognizable words to communicate with, I said the opposite of what I’ve experienced to be true. It is not you who possesses consciousness. It is awareness that possesses everything you take to be “you.” That which is luminous and understanding, that…

This knowledge was never taught all at once. For this precise reason — When I mention to someone that I have a deep aversion to the modern world, they usually respond with the same sort of lecture. ‘All our problems are within!’ It’s like being slapped in the face when you’re starving for support. Although, at a deeper level, they are right. Call…

For centuries, Tibetans made these mandatory Have you ever started a meditation practice, only to watch it pathetically die over time? Bubbling subconscious baggage is sometimes said to be a sign of progress. But if it prevents all momentum in the first place, something is wrong! In the inner pursuit…

Just scratch the surface, and you’ll misunderstand the depths — If Buddhist psychology indeed provides an accurate model of the inner human condition, it suggests a startling reality. We are deluded from the beginning; our very perceptions are built on faulty, dualistic infrastructure. This is a conclusion Western knowledge systems have, to some degree, realized. It’s why you need pages…

Don’t wait for reality to hit you with them unexpectedly! — We claim to be in the most abundant historical period ever created. Globally, more people have the equivalent of a King’s comforts than ever before. But we’re not satisfied. In fact, we’re more anxious than any other era! And our fears, more often than not, revolve around money. Could it…

And why awakening means losing loneliness, forever. Enlightenment is all about ‘becoming one with the cosmos,’ right? Then why is it that every person in the modern world seeking something higher must: Abandon their barbarically crude cultural conditioning (and the people following it) Dump their materialistic atheistic education system (and…

If you hit a plateau, you may want to hear this — It’s easy to simply read metaphysical books and think they’re enough to change your perspective. But for ancient cultures, this kind of learning was like asking a fresh corpse for advice. You’d consult dead material, and be left with just your preconceived mind to make up stories about it. The…

The medicine’s given, now you simply need to digest it — In my journey of purifying my mind (and pathetically failing) it’s been astounding how often my teachers give the same solution. The mind over-complicates all it touches — even the path to freedom. Because that’s its job: putting everything into boxes, since this is the only container it can exist…