PEOPLE GET INTO A HEAVY-DUTY sin and guilt trip, feeling
that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something
bad and they are being punished. That’s not the idea at all. The idea
of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to
open your heart. To the degree that you didn’t understand [...]
True surrender discovered by conscious obedience is
a position of power, never of weakness. It involves an
informed recognition and admission, ordinarily gained
only through years of spiritual work, that as powerful,
independent and highly functional as we may be, we are
still living under the unremitting dictate of of egoic
domination. This recognition, in the [...]
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When I’m teaching, people often ask me questions in hopes of hearing some esoteric truth. They seem to want me to tell them a secret. But the most fundamental secret I know is rooted in something that we already possess, basic goodness. In spite of the extreme hardship and cruelty we see happening throughout the [...]
