Sarah: One of the key questions in relation to education is: What are you educating? What is the fundamental nature of the student? Gilbert: That’s a great question. It’s really asking about the nature of a human being. What happens in the classroom depends on what you understand a human being to be. I'll give you [...]
The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Steps There is an interval between the third and fourth step that is crucial. Practice is required, and you need to persist and continue, otherwise our old habits can pull us back. Stage four is where we reach a point called sattvāpatī. It’s a state of clarity and illumination. It is an [...]
We’re practicing whether we know it or not, whether we’re conscious of it or not, whether we’re intentionally doing it or not….we are always practicing something. The question is, what do we want it to be? There’s an opportunity to make a conscious choice of what we’re practicing, or we can repeat something completely unconsciously and [...]
We are bombarded with external influences more than one can imagine. We have tuned ourselves out and so are externalized in our level of consciousness and living day to day. And so with externalizing, a lot of people can become completely disconnected. There’s very little connection with what’s going on within and very little awareness. We [...]
