One of Jesus’s best-known and most radical teachings is, “Love your enemies.” There is a feeling of exhilaration when we love somebody who dislikes us, a sense of liberation, because the ego becomes disabled. By loving people who dislike us we use our most potent emotion, love, as a solvent to dissolve the ego. Instantly […]
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My reunion with Julia
Here’s an example of the kind of thing I called “supernatural” in a recent post. First let me give you a little background. My girlfriend Julia and I became a couple 31 years ago but in 2004 we broke up and had no contact with each other for 14 years. About a year ago we […]
You don’t hit a dog, you pet a dog
I’ve written before about the autistic boy who I’ve loved and taken care of for years. I should stop calling him a boy because he’ll turn twenty this year. I’ll pretend his name is George. He has — or had — sociopathic tendencies. His father has told me that he himself is a diagnosed sociopath, […]
Sadhana 5
Sadhana is an activity that people do in order to become enlightened. Examples: meditation, japa (chanting mantras), Self-enquiry. People sometimes think that sadhana is a step-by-step activity that we learn from a book or guru. They think there are right ways and wrong ways to do it. They think the guru is a sort of […]