By Shiva, on September 10th, 2011 A friend recently posted this: “I’ll likely figure out just what I am going to do with my life when I am dead, or too old for it to make any difference. For now I will just follow this meandering crazy ass path and try not to biff it too often.”
Sounds familiar? If it [...]
By Shiva, on August 10th, 2011 What you touch, touches you. What you focus on, you tend to become.
We touch life is many ways; intellectually, emotionally, occultly, physically, and socially.
How much anger are you touching?
How much self-righteousness do you indulge in?
Can you even imagine a world of peace and prosperity?
Do you view humans by focusing mostly [...]
By Shiva, on August 8th, 2011 Dear Friends of the Dharma,
It was a little over a year ago that Rama, my teacher, came to me in a powerful dream. In this dream, he did not speak, but there were “chunks” of awareness that flew from his being into me. After the dream several ideas and a new direction to take [...]
By Shiva, on June 6th, 2011 All of my life I have heard the phrase, “Troubling times”. As a child, this did not have much meaning to me. In my innocence, I was too caught up in the fantasy of my imagination and play to notice that my parents were having a crisis. Sure, I knew that there were some harsh [...]
By Shiva, on May 27th, 2011 From A Collection of Flowers by Shiva
I once had a dream that I was walking around with my chest open exposing thousands of wires, like a huge undersea telephone cable.
I watched as one of my friends came up and she picked out a gold wire, a purple with gold stripe, silver, silver [...]
By Shiva, on May 23rd, 2011 From A Collection of Flowers by Shiva
First Night
One night I dreamt I was a native paddling down the Amazon River in a long dugout canoe. I was seated at the front and a member of my tribe was paddling in the rear.
As we paddled down the river, I saw [...]
By Shiva, on May 16th, 2011 From A Collection of Flowers by Shiva
There once was this Guru that meditated high upon a mountain. He lived in a cave and, after many years, his spiritual advancement was such that word spread and he had a steady stream of spiritual pilgrims journey to his cave. His insights and recommendations were always so [...]
By Shiva, on May 8th, 2011 From A Collection of Flowers by Shiva His heart was no longer in the study… having devoted the past few years living in a spiritual community. He had studied long and hard and now he felt he was in a rut. He wanted to remove himself from the intensity of being a student. It was [...]
By Shiva, on April 30th, 2011 From A Collection of Flowers by Shiva
The other day, I decided to go visit God. I had been having a bad day. I owed some money and a commission check hadn’t arrived yet. I also had this occasional headache and I figured that He could help me out.
I knew where God lived. [...]
By Shiva, on April 23rd, 2011 In April of 1998, I was living in a nice apartment near the college in San Bernardino, CA. It was one of the few nice areas in the City, and I loved my little apartment. It was on the top floor at the end and had a view of the mountains. I was teaching at [...]
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