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 # 123 What Is A Jungian Image?
What indeed?
DLM # 112 The Chains of Physis
The sermon is long so this part is short.
DLM # 96 Wisdom From A Shaolin Monk
Master Shi Heng Yi gave a Ted talk about the five hindrances to total awakening. I thought they were fascinating because of their psychological specificity. All of the hindrances begin in the mind which is why I often talk about how liberation (for ourselves, for our species, and for the planet) must begin with an internal and personal struggle for freedom.
DLM # 91 Knowledge & Imitation (Ariadne's Thread)
Wishing for peace and liberation to come to all the beings of the many realms. Even though this is a tall order, the aspiration is sincere, the aspiration is the engine that can make this real.
DLM # 84 Dancing Beneath The Starry Skies
We’re getting close to the most mystical time in the year. Get tons of sleep and spend a lot of time basking in starlight if you can.
DLM # 83 Consumerism Cosmology, Heading North
Happy Sunday and en-joy the week.
DLM # 82 The Dancer Gives No-Fear
Dancing and making personal choices about which energies to cultivate in ourselves are activities that go hand in hand. See what you make of it.
DLM # 81 Not Wasting Our Wounds
Plumbing the depths of our wounds can teach us a great deal about who we are and until we better understand who we are we can keep making blunders that hurt ourselves and others. Hence the logic of looking into this matter.
DLM # 80 We Are saying Thank You, Dark Though It Is
As we shift gears and enter the autumn and wintertime of the year, I find I’m shifting gears with the music, too. Feels good to listen to slow music and just groove to it while cooking and folding the laundry. Walks in the woods or a quiet park in the morning with our music sounds nice, too. It’s time to cultivate yin energies so we can all cool it all down a bit already, slow down and listen more, to our friends, and even to our ideological “enemies.” Peace comes from within, not from events outside of us.
DLM # 74 Where Consumerism and Liberation Converge In Meaning
I’m convinced that if we reduce our consumption we can turn the ship around. It takes disicipline and awareness, though, and you can’t really have either of those when you’re operating from the sphere of unexamined ego desires. This is why evolving is a kind of work—it takes consistent effort.
Let’s see what we can do this week, eh?
Big love.
DLM # 73 Liberty Is A Personal Choice
Offered with love, a heavy-duty, life versus death sermon. Which are you inadvertently choosing? Listen and find out.
The music for today is the first digital mixtape I ever made. My friend, Chris Lam, was showing me how to create a playlist on iTunes and burn it to a CD. These were the songs I picked for it. It has stood the test of time for it was made in 2005. I listened to it the other day in the car and had a lot of fun.
DLM # 72 The Crossroads Of Liberty And Enslavement
Hope you and yours are well. The world is growing more serious by the day and our involvement in it—the way we behave, the things we say and do and think—has rarely been more crucial.
We are responsible for all of it, not the politicians, not those we disagree with.
DLM # 49 Disco Resurrection (or Baptism by Disco)
It’s so easy when you know how. Just let go and dance. Don’t think, don’t talk, don’t worry—just dance. It’ll change your frequency, and then, from that more refined energetic frequency, you can be more useful to your own life and to the life of the world. This is what rebirth means.
DLM Sermon # 37 Make Peace Not war
I think perhaps most people regard creativity as a process reserved only for artists. But actually, we are all creating things all day long with our thoughts and attitudes. This is why being peaceful is a creative act, one that, like every other creative act, begins somewhere and then grows and grows.
This is why this week I talk about making peace as a creative act.
A lot of amazing good music (shout out to Ted for supplying the first song on the mix!) this week, so close your eyes (and your mouth!) and dance.