In this episode I share an exchange between myself and a member of our community around her experience of anxiety. I am pointing to What Is before summary thoughts like “I keep feeling anxiety” or “I am afraid something is wrong”. Those summary thoughts are fine – they are powerless – but they are getting all
I want to invite you to join me for a brand new 4-week course called No-Self Realization: A Thorough Search in Direct Experience for the Separate Self. What exactly are we referring to when we say “I”? What exactly does that pronoun point to? Is there an entity there, separate from life? Where? As Adyashanti says,
In this episode, we explore one of my favorite phrases: Who cares? We’ll look at this in two ways. First, who cares, as in ‘so what?’. Second, who cares as in ‘who is the one apparently experiencing caring? Do you care about the things you’re reactive to? Do you really, or is caring a conditioned
One of the LSBC students in the 6-week course saw something very clearly in our first week in class.She said, “Even though we didn’t really talk about this, for some reason it clicked with me that all of my behaviors are rooted around various fears.”She went on to list half a dozen imagined future events
We just visited my mother-in-law who has dementia.Her long-term memory is enough that she recognizes us. But she has very little short-term memory, which means she repeats the same few things over and over.She’ll talk about how big the kids are and ask them what they’ve been up to this summer.Then her mind will move
When your mind gets wind of the uncertainty inherent in life—how fragile and temporary and not-at-all guaranteed it all is—it can get a little restless.Your sweet little mind thinks that it knowing how things will go is what keeps you safe. Your mind has no idea there is a space, a moment, a now, a
It’s amazing how things change. Thirteen years ago, I rang in 2006 with a group of friends in Chicago. We had tickets to an event that included a four course meal followed by a night of drinking and club-hopping.Early in the second course of our dinner, I started to feel sick. I managed to finish most
Do you know what your feelings are showing you?If they provide feedback that guides us through life, do you know how to read that feedback?The Old Paradigm had it wrong. It taught us to read our feelings in a way that actually isn’t accurate; a way that has created endless confusion and complication for people
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