We Make the Simple so Complicated
hello friend, again, i’m using the question posed by a young friend who is trying to find the Source of All, the Power Within, and asks me my opinion how to get beyond the focus-on-suffering some other teacher has suggested he follow. Personally, for meditation i use chanting and repetition of the mantra: Om Namah…
Read MoreThe River of Truth Runs Through Us
This is in response to a friend who wrote and asked me, “Why isn’t everyone interested in becoming enlightened, when all I see is the River of Truth that runs through all things, everywhere. When I speak with my mother and brother it’s like they don’t even understand what i’m talking about, my passion for…
Read Moreahhhhhhh-rewarding Self
hi friend, i don’t know about you guys but my life is so darn full i can barely get to my blog and share, even though a million things are running through my head that i want to write, draw, talk about. As you know i discuss this “over-active” tendency quite a bit here….seeing as…
Read MoreStaying in the Light
hi friends… i sent this painting to a friend this morning via e-mail: and thought i’d take a minute to talk about it, seeing as she wrote back wow! see, this painting i did when i was first embarking on my journey into what i call “the Light.” What is the Light? Well, to me…
Read Morefirst things FIRST
such a busy life! everyone doing so much! so many things to choose from! so many things to learn, to understand, to enjoy! if you’re anything like me, i want to do them ALL, like … right now. So … how to get to do as many things as possible, without feeling like losing out,…
Read Morewhen life gets to be just … too much!
Dear One I am just so sad, so blown away, so concerned for you and your family, and I can’t begin to imagine how you and yours are feeling. This sudden turn of events is just absolutely one of the things of life that doesn’t make sense. My prayers are with you. You were…
Read Moreearthquake, tsunamis, freeze–what’s it all about???
I just spoke with our friend Magdalena in Santiago,Chile 70 miles away from the epicenter of yesterday’s quake in Conception Chile. In Santiago today, Monday, there is No electric power, just today a tiny bit of water but not much, no cell phones, no gas, bridges down, a 5 story building built 5 years ago one…
Read Morethings are warmin’ up!
buenos dias mis queridos, eso es una facto magnifico! ha ha, i love making up spanish! but one day i’ll know the real thing. BUT … this is what the pose FEELS LIKE, inside, if you have married the breath with the movement, your tree grows powerfully one must never think there’s nothing to share. A person’s knowledge…
Read MoreKeeping Focused
Staying focused on what I know i’m here to do doesn’t stop the distractions, just makes for more choices to be made. So many things going on. many wants to do, places to see, people to do them with. How to ever choose which to do, because of course I want to do them all, like…
Read MoreThings are never what they seem
To a visitor here, St. Augustine, FL appears a tranquil historical settlement by the sea. Claiming to be “America’s Oldest City,” I always raise objections to that and inform claimants of that mis-fact about the 2,000 year old pueblos out in the West, especially of the Hopis on the Black Mesa in Arizona. Nevertheless, tourists come, sometimes…
Read More