Deep within me is a smiling Buddha, Unfurling in time, Ready to awaken. This part of me is like a child, Bright, Naked, Excitable and curious. It is who and how I am when unconcerned by image. As this part of myself, I am ready to serve. A pair of open hands, Opening yet wider,… Continue reading The Buddha within
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Spiritual vs scientific objectivity
I want to introduce the idea that there is a form of spiritual objectivity that can be reached over a lifetime of emotional work and spiritual practice. This framework is parallel to scientific objectivity, but transcends and encompasses it. In scientific objectivity, we work to ensure that we as observers remain separate from the experiment… Continue reading Spiritual vs scientific objectivity
A prayer for the summer solstice
May the awakening of this moment be complete. May all beings know God’s love in their hearts and minds and, with this love, may they accept their true selves. With this self-acceptance, may our systems bend irrevocably in the directions of health and justice. With this equilibrium, may our environment, too, know equilibrium. May the… Continue reading A prayer for the summer solstice
The silence and its meaning
Deep within you is a quiet space From which you were born, and which you will return to upon your death. Even when you forget it while in life, it is there; It is the space in which the experience of your forgetting is contained. You can feel this if you meditate: That deep-down hum,… Continue reading The silence and its meaning
Interview: The Spiritual Download
On 1/26/20 I sat down for a multi-hour interview with Kyle Eric Hilding of The Spiritual Download Youtube channel. We talked about many things, including intuition, insanity, individual consciousness and crises, ego death, meditation, peace, love, the education system, and the obsolete nature of the concept spiritual "teacher." I greatly enjoyed the conversation, and I… Continue reading Interview: The Spiritual Download
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 