Humour in Spirituality

Perception of Disconnection

Power of the Trickster

Menu of Options
I am venturing into a sort of complex area. We are often very used to looking at our own behaviour more from an externalized view. We are so used to it that we don’t often see that our perception is disconnected from our internal being. That we are seeing more how the world works and little or nothing of our own being. It‘s like we come to see life as a big McDonalds menu, and we lose sight of the fact that is us on the other side of the counter taking the order. The options as we are taught them are not the complete menu of options, and never have been for any of us. We are here to express those very options that aren’t on the “menu

Good Enough
By definition is anything you can observe you? Or is it something you have? Are your body and mind somehow in charge? Did you see something beautiful today? You only saw yourself. Did you see something ugly? You also only saw yourself, but these are not the true self. Self is self and all others are also self? Others are mirrors, and the mirror is sacred as you are the mirror also. The Buddhists engage in a practice loosely called death meditation. Some say that’s just ugly and morbid, but they do it to fully embrace life, all of life. They witness the vultures consuming the d

Who Is Me?
What is this me?  There is a simple practice of inquiry that can lead to very deep insight. What is this me, and who is asking? It’s me. Yes, but we often still get caught up in life, even if we understand this inquiry it just seems easier. We get distressed and just go on auto-pilot, because to stop seems like it would just be weird. It would be “not-me”. But if you can do it, how is it not you? It’s disorienting if it’s not what we’ve done before. We have to be brave and motivated. So instead we decide that it’s better the d

Sense of Identity
The subject is identity. It’s a pretty intense issue. When asked about who they are people often just say “I’m me”, and this is true, but in all likelihood they carry around identifications with roles and feelings and circumstances even if they aren’t paying attention to them. So, how much of the identity issue is taken up with things that aren’t really the self? Feels like all of it. The way we are taught it is all of it. All that we are allowed to have. We get a constant stream of messages about what we are to other people, or what our place is in the world even if people don’t literally

All You Need
Now here is a big revelation, and yet is perhaps the most simple truth I know. How many emotions do you have? Probably an infinite number. Countless or one? I’m not sure I can feel more than one at any time. Is true, and well they say God is love right? They also say that God cannot be in the presence of sin. Love. All you have is all you actually need. Love. Any emotion you call by another name is actually just love distorted through judgement. It’s life sustaining, and it’s not invalidating of anything. So when I asked you to consider