There is a life happening before you decide
what it means. Before you improve it. Before you awaken.
Before you even call it your life.
Most of us have learned to meet life through a
continual movement toward something else. We imagine that
peace, fulfillment, God, awakening—or simply being okay—must
be somewhere other than where we are now.
Spiritual seeking can become another version of
the same movement. But there is another possibility.
We can stop for a moment and listen.
Not in order to manufacture a special state,
but to notice what is already here.
There is awareness.
There is this body.
There is a world appearing.
There are thoughts and feelings, love and fear,
pleasure and grief.
And beneath our attempts to control all of it,
there is the extraordinary fact of Being.
This is where my teaching begins.
Not with a demand that you accept a particular
philosophy, religion or spiritual map, but with an invitation
to become intimate with your own experience.
For me, that exploration has been shaped by a
lifetime of engagement with Christianity, Hinduism and
Buddhism, by extraordinary teachers and ordinary people, by
meditation and devotion, by mystical experience and by
everyday life.
I have come to trust that Reality is larger
than any of the ways we describe it.
Sometimes it is discovered as silence.
Sometimes as awareness.
Sometimes as emptiness.
Sometimes as love.
Sometimes as God.
Sometimes simply as this.
The spiritual traditions give us beautiful maps
of this mystery. I don't believe we need to pretend that all
those maps are identical. Nor do we have to choose one map and
deny everything the others have seen.
We can listen.
We can investigate.
We can practice.
And we can discover for ourselves.
Tapestry of Being
Tapestry of Being is the name I give to this
exploration of what it means to be fully human while awakening
to that which is greater than—and inseparable from—our
individual lives.
Through satsang, meditation, individual
sessions, teaching, dialogue and silence, I invite people to
explore this together.
There is nowhere else you need to get to before
this exploration can begin.
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