On Spiritual Riddles, Hemorrhoids and Butterfly Nets
I tend to look suspiciously at ancient texts and their practices. I am, you see, quite modern. Two stunning proofs: I recently bought an electric toothbrush and I am now totally adjusted to our local newspaper no longer being delivered in paper format. I also have very modern fears: viral Armageddon, planetary demise, misgendering people. […]
Jaw-dropping wonder
Jaw-dropping wonder, in unfettered freedom, the cause of the universe is This.– verse 1 of the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam (Ruvinsky, et al.) This entire universe is nothing but a flash… but within it, we go through so much.– Gurumayi So much. And in a flash, it is all gone. Poof. Soham Soham Sivoham Sivoham. I am Siva. […]
Birth Dharma
The female body holds sacred mysteries. She offers up teachings on cycles, pleasure, nourishment, release, gestation, blood, emergence, involution and dare I say she holds secrets about the great beyond; she can take us to the precipice of wild no-mind and spit out new life. These observations rest on the good fortune of finding myself […]