This post explores the most subtle of all The Recognition Sutras. Read it to understand why becoming more aware of awareness, and how it creates its experience of reality moment-to-moment, is the key to living a liberated life.
A crystal-clear outline and explanation of Chapter One of the Yoga Sutra, together with a brand new translation of a Tantrik scriptural passage that adopts and reinterprets Patañjali's ashtānga-yoga!
Chapter Ten of The Recognition Sutras explains how it makes sense to say that each and every human being is a manifestation of God. In what sense are we all constantly expressing our Divinity, whether we know it or not?
One of the most fascinating, strange, mysterious, compelling practice texts in the history of yoga is the Vijñāna-bhairava-tantra, “The Scripture of the Bhairava who is Consciousness.” This post analyzes the nature and content of this 1200-year-old scripture.
The Shaiva Tantrik tradition has a remarkable prescription for how to be happy, and it's not cute, superficial, fluffy, or easy. It's subtle, profound, challenging, and real. And it works. It's found in Chapter Nine of The Recognition Sutras.
A concise exploration of the need for spiritual teachers, and how we might reinvent the role in such a way as to avoid the dangers of exploitation. Uncensored straight talk.
How can we understand all the scandals that have beset yoga teachers and gurus over the years? In the context of what teachings do these 'falls from grace' make perfect sense? And how can we avoid such pitfalls?
This post, which translates Recognition Sutra #8, reveals both how to access fundamental awareness and how to reconcile the many spiritual paths and philosophies of the world.
The seventh sutra of this seminal Tantrik scripture explained. How does the One become many? What are the fundamental constituents of embodied Consciousness?
In the face of tragedy, we need to feel our emotions fully, but we also need to see through our negative stories, which dishearten us and make us less able to take positive action. This post might help put things in perspective for you.
The mind perceives things dualistically. Why does it do so, and why is that such a problem in human life? Sutra Six of The Recognition Sutras gives the answer.
This post discusses the nature of the mind in Tantrik philosophy, and ends with a powerful practice for all seekers of liberation. This is the sixth post on the 1000-year-old spiritual masterpiece, The Recognition Sutras.
The third mind-blowing sūtra of this 11th-century masterpiece explains how the perceiver (you) and the perceived are co-arising, interdependent, co-creating aspects of one reality. Read on to see WHY THAT MATTERS....
The mindblowing second teaching of The Recognition Sutras, a spiritual masterpiece composed 1000 years ago in the valley of Kashmīr. How does Awareness create reality?