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When you worship, when you bow, you’re bowing to your own soul potential within. This is why idols and graven images are so dangerous. The ego wants to classify and keep everything on the outside, to keep everything limited and manageable. So a statue of a God, pick one, is a trap because giving that God form allows the human being to stop at that form or image and think, “Oh, okay, that’s a God, that’s not me.” It gives concrete form to the God and then everything stops dead in it’s tracks and suffering begins. Suffering begins because the God is now outside you, separate from you and depending upon the myriad of beliefs that were fed you on the way up, you buy into linear time and limited space and think, perhaps “Later I will meet this God in death.” (more…)

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A Word About The Common Soul

We live in a dual world. Everywhere you look outside there are opposites and polarity. Up and down, hot and cold, in and out, love and hate and the list goes on. In fact of the many things out there, it’s hard not to find an opposite in something else. It’s simply how our world works out there. As long as you’re working in that world out there you’re in the garden of good an evil. But even in this world of opposites there are clues to the one-ness that is our soul’s connection to the common, universal soul.

Paradoxes are everywhere in life. Paradoxes are these subtle clues in the world to wake us out of the dream or illusion that everything is black and white duality. A paradox is when you’ve got two things that seem to conflict, but could possibly both be true at the same time. You see what this does? It breaks down the dual nature of something. One of the most famous paradoxes is that old riddle: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” I remember my aunts and uncles teasing me with this as a child and it was a big laugh, but it’s designed to cause you to question your own origins and what you’re doing here. (more…)

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