Psychology
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Distracted from Distraction by Distraction
The title is taken from the first of T. S. Eliot’s” Four Quartets,” Burnt Norton. It describes the plight of modern humans. We spend all of our time running away from ourselves by…
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The Bardo of Dying
The Bardo of Dying is what the previous three bardos of life have been preparing us for. It is where the pedal hits the medal so to say. It is here we take…
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The Bardo of Meditation
The Bardo of Meditation is where we focus most directly on realizing the nature of mind. It is here that we develop the practices to confront the nature of our mind and learn…
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Harmonizing With the Cosmic Flow
A few articles back I drew on the work of physicist, Sarbmeet Kanwal, who explored and wrote on Quantum Evocation (linked here: Quantum). It offers a new paradigm to replace the deterministic Newtonian…
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Mind Beyond Death: The Bardo of This Life
We now move on to the second chapter of the book, Mind Beyond Death. This chapter covers the Bardo of this life. Yes, believe it or not, this life in which we are…
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Mind Beyond Death: The Bardos
In a previous article, I summarized the introduction of the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (linked here Death) A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled “The Eight Stages…
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Why Death is So Fascinating
In my last article, I summarized the introduction of the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche (linked here Death) A few months ago, I wrote an article entitled “The Eight Stages…
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Mind Beyond Death
A friend, knowing my interests, recommended the book, Mind Beyond Death by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. I just read through the forward and the introduction and decided to write about it. My previous article…
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The Eternal Now
What is this “Eternal Now”? What does Eternal Now even mean? It’s a difficult concept for people to get. How can something Eternal be Now? It’s because, eternal means it’s outside of time;…
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What is the Universe?
A friend asked me, “What is the Universe?” In thinking about how to answer this simple yet profound question, I decided there were two ways of looking at it. Two Ways to View…
