David R. Hamilton, Ph.D. – What is life?
I’ve always asked deep questions.
What is life? What are we made of?
If you could peer inside anything, you would learn that it’s made of atoms. To the ancient Greeks, atom meant indivisible. The smallest unit.
Your body is made of atoms. Its cells are made of proteins and lipids, but proteins and lipids are made of atoms. Continue reading
Déesse Indigo – During our lives, we tend to form many attachments to various types of things. Many of us are so attached to the physical world that we become enslaved and possessed by the very things we adore.
Detachment is when someone has complete freedom from all that is seen or heard and doesn’t let any possessions take control of them. Practicing non-attachment gives us power over our emotions and feelings in relation to the attachments in our life.
Many people wonder, why does detachment matter? Why does it matter whether or not we’re attached to something? The answer is simple, if we’re not careful our attachment can lead to tragedy and heartbreak when change takes its unstoppable course. Attachment is the root cause of our suffering. Non-attachment is the ultimate form of self-mastery.
The first and most important concept when trying to incorporate non-attachment into your life, is consciously acknowledging that everything that’s manifested in our physical world is temporary, not forever.
When you notice your attachment to anyone or to anything, ask yourself the following questions: “Why do I really desire this? What permanent advantage would I gain by possessing this? How would this possession help me towards greater knowledge and freedom?” Over and over again, the answers to these questions show us that the desired thing is useless in the long term and also may be potentially harmful by driving us into ignorance and bondage. Sometimes we may become aware that the things we desire, is something simply to fulfill a mere restlessness in the mind.
The mental state of non-attachment may come slowly, but even the earliest stages of practice are rewarded by a sense of peace and freedom. Guaranteed success will come from being consistent with this spiritual discipline.
1. Ask yourself what realistic permanent advantage you should gain if you possessed your desire. Continue reading
Phil Watt – I am an ‘ordinary’ native, yet for near half of my life I have experienced an extraordinary interconnection with the external world.
Some might call it . spirituality, others might call it being tapped in and some simply classify it as religion or the paranormal. But in fact the blurring of the lines between one person’s mind and the rest of reality has been called many things by many cultures and traditions who have attempted to explain it over the course of humanity’s history.
No matter what you call this world-wide and timeless phenomenon, most people have personally had extraordinary experiences, too. Continue reading