Archive for September, 2008

On Using Tools

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Ready to learn a big secret?  Humans use tools.  Yup.  Cars and cell phones and computers and shoes and pencils. 
What?  You knew that already?  But did you know the rest of the secret?  Here it is: 
Every tool we use changes us.
This is simple enough to understand, but its implications run very deep.  The […]

Your Pinkie-finger: Guru Extraordinaire

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

One of the amazing parts about this world is that it is filled with innumerable things – and each of these ‘things’ is a direct path to enlightenment. Indeed, we are surrounded by teachers, both inanimate and animate, each of which will be happy to show us ultimate reality. They show us because when we look at any one ‘thing’, we are actually looking at our own delusion, and taking a really good look at the nature of our delusion will cause the delusion to dissolve.

9 Great Non-Dual Teachers

Monday, September 1st, 2008

One of the questions I receive most often is a request for additional resources to learn about non-dualism. I recommend different things to different people based on a variety of factors, but I thought I might set down a few of my most common recommondations so that they are available to everyone . . .