Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

Why Do Visualizations?

No matter what culture, race, or religion we were reared in everyone in the world will associate the color red with sentiments such as anger, passion, dynamism, power, clarity, etc. These evocations are universal, primal and innate to us as human beings. Visualization practice simply capitalizes on this inherent human capacity.

The Precepts of the Spiritual Warrior

Whether or not you are following a martial path of spiritual cultivation, these precepts are wonderful food for contemplation. They are borrowed directly from oral teachings of Acharya Dharmanidhi, founder of Adi Yoga and Trika Institute, which are both schools for the preservation and dissemination of classical, Non-dual Shaivist Tantra (NST).

The Six Ways We Suffer

Human beings at their Essence are innately content, confident, at ease, in touch with a sense of joy and wonder, and live with a felt-sense of interconnection and perpetual self-nourishment. It is only when we leave human Presence that we enter into the “Realms” of suffering.

The Final Blog #10 – Crimes Against Wisdom: A Yogi Gone Bad, Consciously!

Photo: Vectorportal Energy of Mind: A Sauhu Therapy   This is the 10th and final blog in an ongoing series of a yogin’s intentional “crimes against wisdom.” This series is highlighting my experience of purposefully ignoring 10 years of training in yoga, meditation, ayurveda and psychology in favor of performing typical current cultural behaviors of [...]

Education

January 20, 2011 by  
Filed under Practical Philosophy

It seems that there is an overall, worldwide obsession with “education.”  Don’t get me wrong.  Life is all about learning.  But, learning what?  All the emphasis on PISA and world-rankings, etc., all appears to be geared towards a type of learning that is educating a work-force only.  This is one of the problems with a [...]