chad charles
inner travel agent
interventions: interference or assistance?
To talk about interventions, we must come to an understanding of what it means to intervene in general before we progress to talking about interventions in the specific context of 5. Five facilitation, as with many modalities that induce or provoke expanded states of...
a therapeutic window
"vyutthāna—the several-minutes-long process of coming out of deep meditation, of moving from fully introversive awareness to the extroversive state. It is in this vyutthāna phase that we have a golden opportunity to integrate the former with the latter. Kṣema teaches...
The Centre of the Torus
“The torus is a multidimensional geometric figure that lies at the heart of all space‑time.”– Richard Rudd The torus is a helpful metaphor for thinking about the movement of primordial consciousness and where our personal consciousness can be seen to be positioned...
Life As Ceremony
“Pain comes with life, closely accompanied by our “solutions” to it, most of which are all about getting away from it, whether through alcoholic, narcotic, erotic, intellectual, material, egoistical, or spiritual means. The fact that these “solutions,” despite their...
intention vs. attention
Attending to what is present is different than intending something to happen.
essentially in good spirits
"[Source] is not an object; it is radical, ever-present Subject, and thus it is not something that is going to jump out in front of you like a rock, an image, an idea, a light, a feeling, an insight, a luminous cloud, an intense vision, or a sensation of great bliss....
a practice in dying
“If you would
die well,
permit yourself
to fill
with the rush
of breath,
playful movement,
stirring warmth,
and the clarity
of rest.
The angel
of death
bares no harm
to life
unresisted.”
with surrender in mind
“True surrender is never an enslavement, but rather a step toward the discovery of real power. It is the active yielding to a larger intelligence, without trying to control the outcome. True surrender is not blind. It requires real discrimination—the capacity to...