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Ash Wednesday

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      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....
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My Guru Is Nobody (Video)

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  Sharing some tender and wondrous stories about being with a true Guru, who is Nobody.
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Sacred Uncertainty

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  Almost everything that comes out of certainty is ruthless, rigid, and authoritarian. Those who are certain of their truth are very dangerous, whether they're coming from the left or the right. I feel more at home in the satsang of the Uncertain, than in a party of true believers. Almost everything that comes out of Uncertainty is creative, fresh, newborn. This is as true in physics - the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - as in metaphysics. February daffodils, their yellow wounds of promise. Anger, a fire that is almost always about something else. The irony of mist, that lovely gloom. Saying goodbye. Uncertainty does not mean ambivalence, self-doubt, or indecision. It means response-ability in the present moment, for only Presence resolves the polarity of opposites. Our willingness to rest in Uncertainty engenders a profound and humble alchemy. The state of "I don't know" is the womb of revelation. Image: Rashani Réa, from the book of my ...
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