The Translucent View

Discover the innate assumptions you have about your sleeping patterns, then change them for a short period. Are you “not a morning person”? Do you “need a good eight hours”? Do you “turn into a pumpkin after nine in the evening”? Do you know for sure that these things are true? Perhaps with the help […]

For almost all of us, we have tried to improve the quality of our lives by changing external things. We have tried to find the right partner; we have tried to find the perfect house with the perfect neighbors in the perfect community. We have tried to eat the right foods to have perfect health. […]

Dana Lynne Andersen suggests that her students paint on newspaper to get away from the idea of a blank canvas. Sometimes she gives people just eight colors, and two minutes to cover the paper. Not much time to think: “As an art teacher, I’m a midwife, a facilitator. You can gauge the process and tell, […]

The process of melting resistance is really the process of relaxing the grip of our accumulated systems of belief, which we often lump together and call “the mind.” We resist things as they are when they conflict with the way we think things should or should not be. The best place to start is to […]

“Pull over here,” said Joey. I was surprised at his choice. The Terrace is a fashionable up-market restaurant, about 40 minutes out of town, just off the road. It has magnificent views of the surrounding canyon, thickly covered with trees. The walls on all sides are glass, floor to ceiling, with no interior walls, so […]

There are a few very simple, undeniable, and basic observations we can make about the state of being human. First, we are all in some way or other constantly preoccupied with changing phenomena. Human consciousness is continually tracking something that is changing. Have you noticed? This activity is almost unceasing except at night, when there […]

Whenever anyone has a moment of true awakening, where awareness genuinely touches into itself, and recognizes itself as infinite and always at peace, it seems to be the end of everything. It is the end of seeking, the end of self-improvement. When you realize, “I am not the person I thought I was, I am […]

Suddenly my heart was beating faster, my spine straightened, and I realized that quite beyond my control, I was also about to speak. It was a body sensation, like being about to sneeze, and knowing there is no longer any choice. “I don’t know you.” The words began, all on their own. It was a […]

Strangely enough, the majority of human beings have become so hypnotized by thoughts, fleeting feelings, and unresolved problems which appear to demand immediate solution, that their access to their true nature as limitless consciousness has gone. When the clouds are there, clouds are all there is, and that can be a terrifying and bewildering place […]

Translucent art does not come from the artist’s personal identity, but rather through it. In this sense, all great art is, and always has been, translucent. Mastery anywhere is to be aligned with That. It lives, acts, speaks through you. So these artists or sportsmen, in that field of activity, are able to enter that […]