Imagine you’re wearing a mask, but you’ve worn it for so long you’ve forgotten you’re wearing it. You believe the mask is your face, your whole identity. This is a bit like how many of us live, according to Sri […]...
We usually think that the world around us is made of physical “stuff” called matter. And we tend to believe that this matter exists whether or not anyone is looking at it or experiencing it. For example, the chair in […]...
“The map is not the territory… The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map…” – Alfred Korzybski According to a philosophical view called empiricism, all the knowledge we have about […]...
Have you ever wondered how we know anything at all about the world around us Think about how you learned that ice is cold, or that strawberries are sweet. You learned these things by experiencing them directly – by feeling […]...
We often think of our minds as having “hidden depths.” It’s like picturing a vast ocean beneath the surface of our everyday thoughts, full of deep feelings, secret desires, and fixed beliefs that shape who we are. We imagine we […]...
Imagine you’re reading a captivating novel. You get to know the characters through their actions, their words, and what the author tells you about them. You might feel like you understand them deeply – their hopes, their fears, their motivations. […]...
Have you ever stopped to think about how you know what you know For instance, how do you know that snow is cold, or that fire is hot How do you know that the sky is blue or that lemons […]...
There is a kind of transformation that doesn’t come through effort, improvement, or working on yourself. It doesn’t happen by mending what seems broken. Instead, it comes through direct seeing -a shift in perception that reveals that what you are […]...
This article explores how the Kapha dosha expresses through the six seeking styles – and how, through self-sourcing, this dosha reveals its deepest gift: unconditional love as presence. If you’re new to this series, you may find it helpful to […]...
This article explores how the Vata dosha expresses through the six seeking styles and how, through the process of self-sourcing, these patterns soften into presence, revealing Vata’s true gift: creative spaciousness rooted in the ground of being. If you haven’t […]...
This article gives a brief overview of how the Pitta dosha expresses through the personality and the seeking styles – and how, through self-sourcing, this dosha reveals its true gift: wisdom in radiant presence. If you haven’t already – it […]...
We typically perceive the world and our lives through two distinct lenses: the conceptual and the experiential. The conceptual perspective represents the ordinary way we conceive of and hold the world. It is built upon ideas, descriptions, labels, names, interpretations, […]...
