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Category Archives: Meditation

A Beginner’s Guide to Nonduality: Integrating the Experience With Daily Life

Avoid the observer trap. See through the ego rather than destroy it. Don’t the experience into claims about reality. Keep practicing and attend to the tasks of daily life.

Posted byDoug ToftJanuary 30, 2022January 30, 2022Posted inBuddhism, Meditation

A Beginner’s Guide to Nonduality: Ways to Talk About It

We can talk about nonduality in ways that prevent misunderstanding and point to the experience of it, beyond all words. 

Posted byDoug ToftJanuary 23, 2022Posted inBuddhism, Meditation

A Beginner’s Guide to Nonduality: ‘Intimacy With All Things’

“In this experience, the sense of being a witness or seer of things vanishes completely, and instead you feel yourself to be whatever thing you are beholding. You don’t see the mountain, you are the mountain. You don’t hear a bird, you are birdsong.”

Posted byDoug ToftJanuary 15, 2022December 11, 2022Posted inBuddhism, Meditation

What I Told My Children About Religion

After giving up on churches, we found yoga, meditation, and the power of example (plus John Coltrane.)

Posted byDoug ToftDecember 30, 2021January 17, 2022Posted inMeditation, Music, Personal

The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment — ‘No resistance’

Life occasionally backs us into a corner and brings us to our knees. In such moments, we can remember two words: “No resistance.”

Posted byDoug ToftDecember 18, 2021June 27, 2022Posted inMeditation

Revisiting Eckhart Tolle: 20 Years After the Power of Now

You can criticize Tolle’s jargon and spiritual stardom. And yet he usefully describes the difference between living from ego and living from presence.

Posted byDoug ToftNovember 13, 2021Posted inMeditation

Writing as Spiritual Practice: Cultivating Deep Humility

Every time I finish a piece of writing, I see again the terrifying truth: Reality transcends anything that I could possibly say about it.

Posted byDoug ToftNovember 7, 2021November 7, 2021Posted inMeditation, Writing

Conversation as Win-Win: David Bohm on Dialogue

The aim of dialogue is not for everyone to finish up and leave the room with the same opinion. Far more important is our shared state of mind. When everyone suspends their assumptions and opinions, we share a common consciousness.

Posted byDoug ToftOctober 18, 2021October 18, 2021Posted inBehavior Change, Meditation

‘You Are Not the Guilty Party’—Bubba Free John on Original Sin

What led me to abandon the notion of original sin was becoming a dad—and listening to Bubba Free John.

Posted byDoug ToftOctober 11, 2021October 11, 2021Posted inBubba, Meditation

Crazy Wisdom and Criminal Charges: Coming to Terms With Bubba Free John

Even spiritual teachers with genuine insight can harm you. Keep your crap detector handy.

Posted byDoug ToftOctober 6, 2021October 11, 2021Posted inBubba, Crap-Detecting, Meditation

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