Uradiance

  Knowing gets in the way. Just surrender conceptual thinking, but very gently, with tender affection for this useless mind. Then rest in the surge of energy that comes with being merely awake, free from thought. Countless invisible suns fill your blue sky. You don't need energy, you Are energy. You are the vast energy you wasted in trying to know something. Now all that energy is available as wonder. Past and future dissolve in the silent explosion of Being, because they were only thoughts. Now, waves of delight vibrate from your body into each blade of grass and lump of soil, causing microbes to shiver with grace and galaxies to tremble with joy. Yet you haven't actually "done" anything.  Simply surrender the effort to know, to hold a concept in the mind. Even if you only "do" this for an instant at dawn, your whole day will vibrate with energy, the energy released by your awakening.  At first light , open your eyes and simply see, with the clarity you a...

      On the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, I confess that I am "the first among sinners." Why? Because all that I see and all that I know is apprehended through the shattered lens of my own ego, distorted by the mind that superimposes its shadow, and blurs its own vision. The world appears to me just as my mind is. So the Yoga scriptures declare: "Yatha drishti, tatha srishti: as the mind is, so the world appears." The profoundly realistic Christian vision of Sin is precisely the teaching of Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism. We do not see the true divine creation around us, we see only the projection of this mind. The problem of human living becomes: how can we learn to see through the eye of the heart, an eye freed from the gray clouds of thought? Jesus called this "the single eye." He said, "If your eye is single, your whole body will be filled with light." But most of us New Agers have nought but disdain for the notion of Sin....