Ajapa Japa – Breath & Mantra Meditation
“If we can repeat this mantra constantly until it becomes integrated within our consciousness and is always present in the mind, we will realize...
The Zen of Ingenious Space: Discovering the Gap between the Known...
“In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts – after practicing for years, you become the gap.” ~ J. Kleykamp
There...
The Significance of Your Spine on a Spiritual Journey
“So, spine is one dimension of you, which determines which direction you go. How your spine is functioning; how the energies in your...
Catharsis, a Path to Self-Realisation
“The method of repression is to not express. If you feel angry, you don’t express it. You suppress it, you don’t allow it to...
Death and the Great Transformation: Three Buddhist Versions of Dying
Dying is a mystery, and many of us fear it. But, much like the thrill of discovering self love, death and our relationship to...
6 Things to Learn about Happiness from being on Retreat
Some of us are lucky and are either born knowing how to self nurture and self love, or are mindfully taught and learn...
Satori – The Zen Concept of Enlightenment and Self-realisation
“You and I sip a cup of tea. That act is apparently alike to us both, but who can tell what a wide gap...
Three Ways to Become One With Your Higher Self
“Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional." ~ Haruki Murakami
OK, I know. Functioning on a low vibration is just so much easier. Why take on more,...
Twenty-Four: The Answer to the Meaning of Death, Reality and Nothingness
“'The answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In the spirit of high humor and cheeky nonchalance, let’s replace Douglas Adams’ famous quantum computer (Deep Thought) with...
Courage, Candor, and Contraries: Jester Guru Chronicles, Part 10
"Act as you wish and regard nothing as sacred." ~ Sacred clown proverbMy cocoon is a rabbit hole, a wormhole, an inside-out pigeonhole. I spill out of it with the residue of annihilation dripping off my soul which flaps behind me like a cape. I'm not super. I'm not...
Mythos and Ethos: A Hero’s Journey
"When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing." ~ Sioux ProverbMythology has been a mystical way of telling stories since the dawn of our story-telling species. It has a way of cutting through the human condition like...