Chan has nothing to do with religion. It broke all doctrine and threw away the talks about reincarnation and karma. It set all rules, beliefs, and doctrines on fire, reducing them to ashes. Chan only has a single query: Are you awake or not? It is about seeing one's true nature.

A strong sense of responsibility to provide and save could make your life miserable. Yet, at the same time, you’re tackling this heart-wrenching moral dilemma: How can I watch an animal or person suffer without doing my best to help? Does letting go make me ignorant, cruel, or even evil?

In the realm of spirituality and healing, the term "ego" is often discussed. The concept provides a convenient framework for exploring and understanding our identity. However, the ego is often labeled as inherently negative—insane, sinful, lustful, selfish, and greedy. Consequently, the ego is treated as a demonic entity that must be crushed and demolished.

Letting go can be incredibly challenging, especially when the person who hurt you refuses to acknowledge their wrongdoing. This leaves you feeling stuck in a dilemma: should you just forgive and move on, or fight for justice?

Trauma, whether large or small, shares striking similarities in how it affects the mind and body. Healing techniques aim to mitigate or eliminate the negative effects associated with traumatic memories or conditioning. This process helps restore equilibrium and balance within us.

For those who suffer from trauma, the behaviors may appear irrational but are often not due to a lack of understanding, willpower, or character flaws. Rather, “irrational” behaviors are the result of altered and distorted brain systems. Therefore, once we grasp a good understanding of how trauma affects our brain and body, we’ll be able to reverse the harm.

Emotions don’t come out of thin air. Emotions originate within us; we cannot distance ourselves from them. The reasons behind them might not be clear—they could stem from personal beliefs, experiences, or unconscious conditioned responses.

Self-autolysis is the water purification process, removing the impurities and dropping the false identifications or beliefs, allowing us to see with great clarity and return to our true nature.

We’re often fooled by emotions and fighting against our own emotions, whether pain, depression, anxiety, or anything else.

Eye movement is not a cure-all, but it reduces the intensity of emotions, lowers or removes the hurdle. Allows us to break free from emotional traps.

Mystical and Spiritual experiences are relatively rare and transformative, possibly the pinnacle of human experience. Yet, it’s not awakening. Too many people stopped before the finish line and were fooled by the experiences.

Non-dual awareness is not about relinquishing the distinction between good and evil or beauty and ugliness. But letting go of the strong attachment to a particular outcome, hence, brings you peace and freedom.

A spiritual journey comprises three phases: healing, awakening, and healing. Let’s break down what it entails.

Contrary to popular belief, love, compassion, purpose of life, and happiness have nothing to do with awakening—they are dualistic attributes of this world. However, these attributes are part of the human experience and bring us joy and fulfillment.

Mainstream mindfulness and Buddhist meditation aim to help us be mindful of our thoughts and emotions. These practices build awareness, which is an important step in healing. Yet, it does not lead to awakening. Otherwise, Japan and China would have mass-produced enlightened beings every year.

During meditation, unresolved feelings might begin to emerge and become emotional or even overwhelming, perhaps by intense sadness, fear, powerlessness, or a mixture of perplexing feelings. Here are some techniques to proceed.

How much control do you have over your emotions? No one enjoys feeling depressed or upset, yet we often feel powerless to change them. Fortunately, we can leverage eye movement (derived from EMDR) to remove that tragic spell.

As your senses become more sensitive, your awareness starts to expand, allowing you to notice things that you haven’t noticed before.

Meditation alters the brain's mechanics by escaping its loopy circuitry. It changes your perception by loosening old thinking patterns. Thus, you can perceive things in their true nature without coloring.

The benefits of mindfulness are vast, yet if we don’t resolve the root causes of the troubling thoughts and emotions, then it's like a boat with a leaky bottom: mindfulness is patching the holes and scooping out the water to keep the boat afloat and maintain a "peaceful" mind. Once out of the meditative state, the water starts to leak in again, turning mindfulness into an unavoidable chore.

The first book of Jed McKenna's trilogy. Though Jed is a fictional character, his teachings offer a vivid perspective on Enlightenment. Several key points from the book profoundly influenced me when I first read it years ago.

The nagging voice has turned into an apparition dwelling inside your head. You're fighting a delusion. We leverage various healing tools to recondition and deprogram the persistent nagging voice.

Beliefs and frameworks direct us unconsciously, yet self-imposing constraints confine us. Beliefs like wearing tinted glasses obscure the true nature of things.