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Today I found out that one of my friends wipes his dog’s butt. Indeed. After each poop, he cleans his dog’s rump, first with a wet napkin, and then with a dry one.

His rationale for this behavior is rather detailed, and I won’t get into it here. Suffice it to say that it would make a nice YouTube video.

The reason I point this out is that we humans seem to have an almost irrational fear of all that is natural. And what we fear most is what is natural in ourselves. This is rather sad, because what is the most natural in ourselves is also the most wonderful in ourselves.

Let’s Go Into the Wild!

Let’s take off all our clothes and run naked into the woods. Let’s not come back for a while. Just wander about in the wild places for a few weeks and see what unfolds. . .

Enlightenment. Awakening. Satori. Dwelling in the Now. Non-Dualism.
These are huge, beautiful words. They hold the promise of something amazing and wonderful, available to us if only we can unravel the secret of finding them.
When we dwell on any of these words, we can feel their power in our […]

I simply couldn’t help but use Bilbo’s famous book title — There and Back Again — for this series of articles.

Why?
Things are a little strange when you’re trying to write about Awakening. Usually, when you’re writing about a given subject, you can make statements of fact (even if the ‘facts’ are just based on […]