bliss Archive

  • Dissolving the Past

    Dissolving the Past

    Your body carries a record of your past experiences, some deep and old and intense, but the past no longer...
  • A Taste of Love to Order the Feast

    A Taste of Love to Order the Feast

    You cannot ask the universe for something if you cannot conceive of it.  In November of last year,...
  • From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    From Suffering to Energy without Effort

    A table of observations on how specific emotions transform automatically into blissful energy.
  • A Snoot Pointing to the Moon

    A Snoot Pointing to the Moon

    Pointing to the moon is tricky when its light is found within, but don’t let that stop you.
  • Delusion and Possibility

    Delusion and Possibility

    The deepest healing occurs when we open to the possibility that our perspective can change.
  • Hold Out Your Hand

    Hold Out Your Hand

    What power do we really have to manifest what we want?
  • Bliss of the Unresolved

    Bliss of the Unresolved

    An otherwordly contentment filled my day today.  Something that should have caused me sadness brought me peace and tenderness instead. ...
  • The Ultimate Psychic Boundary

    The Ultimate Psychic Boundary

    The notion of psychic boundaries reminds me of the boy who lived his life in a bubble.  Protection is lovely,...
  • Exquisite Tenderness: Cultivating a Blissful Compassion

    Exquisite Tenderness: Cultivating a Blissful Compassion

    Is your heart heavy today?  I could feel its weight just as the clouds began to fill the sky.  A...
  • Longings to Share the Luminous Sky

    Longings to Share the Luminous Sky

    Yesterday, I was sitting on a bench out on a boardwalk suspended over a cattail marsh.  I felt so absolutely...
  • Tracing a Path from Buried Pain to Love

    Tracing a Path from Buried Pain to Love

    If you ask for healing, watch your thoughts. Sometimes the divine speaks with our own inner voice.
  • How Matter Reflects Mind

    How Matter Reflects Mind

    Thoughts on how the outer world reflects the inner world and the intricacies of manifestation.
  • Why the Heart Closes

    Why the Heart Closes

    Apathy often has its roots in the odd, unexpected body memory of prior pain that is evoked by new love.
  • The Power of Later

    The Power of Later

    Enter the real “now” by letting go of your concepts of the present.
  • The Psychiatrist, the Psychologist, and the Buddhist

    The Psychiatrist, the Psychologist, and the Buddhist

    Where does suffering originate, and how does one eliminate it? A psychiatrist is someone who, seeing an unusually sad character on...
  • Blissful Just As Things Are

    Blissful Just As Things Are

    Today, I stopped praying for things to get easier.  It just occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary.  For many...
  • Zen Dancing: Samadhi Through Movement

    Zen Dancing: Samadhi Through Movement

    Learn to move with the feelings in your body, approaching them directly rather than through thought.
  • Stories of Awakening

    Stories of Awakening

    Below are accounts of awakening (e.g., satori, moksha, nirvana, enlightenment) reprinted from various sources, such as Zen Flesh, Zen Bones,...
  • Why Confront Your Demons?

    Why Confront Your Demons?

    An integration of Zen emptiness with New Age form offers one approach to healing our collective samsara.
  • You Are Brand New

    You Are Brand New

    If you are beset by a negative self-image, especially one that is self-fulfilling and reflected back to you by others...
  • Now What?

    Now What?

    What would you do if your lifelong search for wholeness finally reached the finish line?  If the problems you devoted...
  • Bliss, Literally

    Bliss, Literally

    Again and again, I have this same experience.  Some situation in my life is causing pain, something I can hardly...
  • Breath It In

    Breath It In

    Encountering your worst fear, a situation that means the end of you, so it seems, sink into it.  Don’t try...
  • Keeping Enlightenment at Bay

    Keeping Enlightenment at Bay

    Take a breath.  Feel the air enter your body.  Embrace every sensation, thought, and emotion coursing through you in this...
  • Still Luminous

    Still Luminous

    Last night, I was awake all night, while sleeping, enjoying another one of those full nights resting in clear, lucid,...
  • A Long Awaited Apology

    A Long Awaited Apology

    There comes a time when the dark forces in your life step into the light, remove their masks, and reveal...
  • Trusting that You Are Loved

    Trusting that You Are Loved

    When peace and tranquility, bliss even, begins to fill most every moment, healing feels complete.  These past few weeks, I’ve...
  • When Things Get Ripped Apart

    When Things Get Ripped Apart

    When there is no way to make things right, love and courage illuminate what never falls apart.
  • Find Love and Give It All Away

    Find Love and Give It All Away

    What happens when we treasure someone too much? A story of discovering the divine by crushing illusions.
  • Love Moves

    Love Moves

    A poem about the effortlessness of divine love followed by an essay on surrender by EnlightenedBeings.com
  • Five Phases of Transformation

    Five Phases of Transformation

    I am being reassembled.  The process is unmistakeable.  It’s not over yet, but I feel myself entering a final phase,...
  • Warmth in the Cold

    Warmth in the Cold

    Who do we turn to in times of need? Reflections on loss return me, somehow, to a state of bliss.
  • When the Unshakable Peace Gets Shaken

    When the Unshakable Peace Gets Shaken

    What happens when the unshakeable peace is suddenly shaken? When we lose the sense that everything is okay?
  • Egoless Compassion

    Egoless Compassion

    A meditation designed to cultivate compassion that is free from selfish motivations.  Especially useful for having compassion for those who...
  • True Listening

    True Listening

    A meditation for when you feel lonely or alienated from someone you care about, and you can’t talk to them....
  • At War with Depression

    At War with Depression

    You may have won many battles with depression. Why can’t you win the war? A new way to...
  • Philosophy

    Philosophy

    We begin with a belief in separation, and we think oneness is the illusion.  One day we realize we have...
  • The Goddess Prayer

    The Goddess Prayer

    I am Goddess, the Perfect Mother Primordially complete Powerful beyond measure I dream the dream that is Bliss becoming transforming Men tremble at my name,...
  • Authentic Opening

    Authentic Opening

    “What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have,” asks Adyashanti, “right down...
  • Dancing with Love

    Dancing with Love

    I recently went to a Tai Chi center where a group of about fifteen or more people gather every so...