… look where you want to go.

James: Neurobehaviouralists suggest we experience only the surprising. Everything else gets lost into the deep blue of our subconscious mind, with its business ends of icebergs and ridiculous fishes. The connections made there are so beyond comprehension, no number could catch them. You can get a sense of what might remain unseen in at least a … Continued

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Let’s Get Free

James: For so much of my meditation career, I wanted to…I don’t know, break on through to the other side. Transcend. Get the BIG one. Full unity, non-duality, whatever. What if, though, something was alive in me, already helping me, as a mother would her newborn child, teaching me how to walk first on two legs, … Continued

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Love is closer to us than we are to ourselves.

James: Some claim that we experience, at least consciously, only the surprising. A voice shouts our name from across a busy room, and we turn. A twinge in our leg, and we move it. The rest of the sensations, nearly all of them, are processed by the unconscious mind which has seen them a billion times … Continued

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When the Bell Finishes…

James: On one of his last transmissions, instead of speaking, the Buddha held up a white flower.  Many of the monks in attendance were smitten, and understood the metaphor.  Only one, however, smiled.  The Buddha called him forward and said, “Is there something you would like to share with the class?” Sure, the monk said.  Everything. “Great,” … Continued

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