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Relaxing Our Ego Desires (Part 2)
We’re spending these days looking at some ancient spiritual practice that challenge the tyranny of desire. This week we continue looking at how to effectively challenge the power of ego-desire, specifically by using the power of our imagination. Continue reading
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Relaxing Our Ego Desires (Part 1)
We’re spending these days looking at some ancient spiritual practice that challenge the tyranny of desire. This week we look at how to effectively challenge the power of ego-desire. Continue reading
Relaxing Our Sense Desires
Last week we saw how the ancient spiritual practice of silence challenges the tyranny of desire. This week we look at how we can fare well when we challenge the powerful desires of our senses. Continue reading
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The Discipline of NOT Talking
Extended silence makes us uncomfortable for a lot of reasons, several of which we examine in this lesson. However, the ancients touted it as one of the classical spiritual disciplines, designed to awaken us to the Divine Life and Light inside each of us. Have a listen! Continue reading
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Sabbath Consciousness: Our Descriptive Selves (part 4)
As we’ve seen these last two weeks, “the descriptive self” is a faulty and inadequate way of seeing ourselves. In this final lesson in the series we consider how our sense of self keeps us from remaining present to the moment, keeps us from peace, keeps us from inner tranquility. Continue reading
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Sabbath Consciousness: Our Descriptive Selves (part 3)
Continuing our discussion of sabbath-consciousness… Continue reading
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Sabbath Consciousness: Our Descriptive Selves (part 2)
The third critical elements we’re looking at that carves out interior space and peace for our souls, is how we think about ourselves. In this message we consider “the descriptive self” and how it drives us into less and less inner tranquility. Continue reading
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Rethinking Leisure: Sabbath Consciousness (Part 2)
The ancients proscribed a weekly Sabbath rest as a rule to follow that was good for the soul. Later, sages and seers expanded the idea of Sabbath rest to mean an internal peace that characterized the every-day life of the spiritual person. Even in busy and difficult times, one’s interior state can remain calm, restful, and peaceful. We explore three simple elements of Sabbath consciousness in this second part of the lesson. Continue reading
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