So excited to share this week’s sermon and music with you all. After a very long and cold winter, the weather is finally turning warm around here and it’s a glorious Sunday morning. No matter what is happening in your world, or in the world in general, there can be some joy in sitting in the sun and breathing deeply.
DLM # 155 Adventures on the Wheel of Samsara ☸️
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, and Jai Ma!! Victory to the Mother!
And happy four years of attempting to spread wisdom and light into the world!
After listening to the sermon, you may object that it’s important to be “in the world” to help alleviate suffering. I agree, of course, we must all do what we can. But what I am suggesting is that there is something even more important than that: training yourself and your mind to such a degree that you are no longer unconsciously contributing to the cyclical regeneration of suffering in the first place. If with one hand we clean, and with the other, we are creating a mess, then the cycle just goes on ad infinitum. At some point, we must stop creating the mess in the first place and we can only achieve this with a highly trained and refined mind.
DLM # 152 Moonday Sermons
I like the word thalassic. For music this week, look up Tom Moulton’s remixes of the Philadelphia Classics and listen to all of them, then slowly, slowly, get really into Tom Moulton.
DLM # 150 Mindfullness or Singlemindedness?
It’s an important question we don’t ask ourselves enough. Should we be full of mind or should we be focused?
The external world is unreliable, it will not avail us, especially when we are using an untrained monkey mind to interact with it. Training is the only answer, the only pathway to liberation which begins within, inside our own minds, the scariest and most dogmatic place of all!
DLM #146 The Immortal Wisdom--Moon Day Edition
“Not I, the I that I am, knows these things, but God knows them in me.”
DLM # 131 The Affirmative Hero 👑
As always, keen discernment is a golden key that can unlock many doors.
DLM # 130 Hail The Victorious Dead 🍺🦋
Three supplementary items here: a photo of where I was sitting when I wrote today’s sermon, a photo of the Bohemian cemetery mentioned, and a video by Sadhguru explaining the way the mind is a reality-creation-factory we must train so we can consciously and consistently manifest peace, joy, and love.
Vyšehrad Cemetery
Nice place to sit and write!
DLM # 129 A Coronation Event 👑
A halo of light encircling a radiant object.
DLM # 128 Goddess Reclamation Projects 🌚
Here is a photo of Prague according to the tram system (notice the mandala-esque design), and a cool Gothic tower. Plus, this week’s wisdom and musical libations. Enjoy!
DLM # 124 Not Wasting Energy
Energy is precious, we need to save it for our loving attention to the holiness of life.
DLM # 123 What Is A Jungian Image?
What indeed?
DLM # 121 The Relgious Life
How can we rescue ourselves from indoctrinated ideas that limit our ability to be in direct communion with the divine?
DLM # 120 Growing Up Strong Like A tree
We’re often blown off course when we see the success and wealth of others and start to feel bad about ourselves. But for those seeking wisdom, the slow maturation process of a tree is a better image to emulate.
DLM # 119 The Psychology of The Pied Piper
We have to be careful what we covet. For every action, there is a reaction.
DLM # 116 The Sacred Ecstatic
This week’s verbal sermon is short but packs a serious punch. I had to listen to it myself several times, and each time I was transported. The music, too, is powerful and there are many gods and goddesses in there, inviting us to leave silliness behind and enter into true profundity. There is nothing like mythopoetic language and powerful music to transport us directly into connection with the divine.
DLM # 115 Personal v. Transpersonal
I have discovered recently that people other than those I have reached out to personally have discovered my sermons and have been listening to them every week, so, for those who are interested or have the need, I wanted to announce that I now offer mentoring services: https://luminositymentoring.com/
Enjoy the week and do your best to stay conscious. xo
DLM # 114 Dancing Past Our Defense Mechanisms
DLM # 113 Chaos and Creation
Beware the existential thumb!
DLM # 112 The Chains of Physis
The sermon is long so this part is short.
DLM # 110 Tussling With Demons
Whenever you need to go down into the depths of profundity and sustain a lengthy sojourn there, listen to E2E4.
Also, here is the website for a scholar, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, about whom I speak in today’s sermon: https://www.emergencenetwork.org/