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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
It was one of the worst times in my life. My marriage of thirteen years was in the process of divorce. My whole world had just fallen apart. My two boys were both under ten years of age. I was deeply concerned as to how all this would affect them. To say that I was [...]