3-month course - registration open!

After some time away from the blog, Peter has returned with news...

The long-awaited Tantra course is now launched!

3-month course for peace of mind, vitality and profound transformation.

See info here:

Spirituality is just about finding Peace...

The goal of my spiritual work is true happiness... contentment... Peace.

But sometimes we may imagine that spirituality is in some way 'opposed' to involvement in the world. We may believe that if we were content then we would have no impulse towards any achievement.

However, do not confuse true happiness, contentment and Peace with apathy, ‘low-expectations’, indifference, lack of motivation, or stagnation.

In happiness and peace, we rediscover our natural talents, we rediscover our passion, and we find it perfectly natural to live a dynamic, adventurous life, full of discovery and achievement…

In happiness and peace we discover the best of ourselves, we discover the best we have to offer our loved ones and to this world. We discover that by being fully ourselves – just being at peace with ourselves –  actually has a huge impact on our world, because it is a powerful ‘wake-up call’ to those around us. It reminds those who come into contact with us that they too can be in peace… and that peace is not just an idyllic concept. It can be embodied in any moment of our lives.

Ultimately spiritual self-realisation is recognising  that this peace is our unconditioned nature… that it is still here, now as silent witness to all the highs and lows… it is unconditional and eternal.

It is the source of genuine unconditional love. Mystics have referred to it as the ‘Presence of God’… Hindus have referred to it as ‘Satchitananda’ (‘Truth-Consciousness-Bliss’), the Buddhists have referred to it as the ‘Buddha-nature’…

It is always present. We just tend to overlook it in our ‘disbelief’… We cover it up with our thoughts about the so-called ‘real world’, which really is the product of conditioning rather than direct experience.

Ultimately spirituality has nothing to do with belief – quite the contrary – it is what remains when we have the courage to drop our belief systems – both ‘secular’ and ‘religious’ – and experience the power of Life, animating us now… This is communion with the source.

It's too simple to be ‘grasped’, but the ‘cure’ for this strange condition is to recognise why we have been trying so hard to ‘grasp’ in the first place...

We have been afraid. We have developed an unquestioned and even unconscious belief, or attitude, of distrust towards life. This is all that stands in the way of our Realisation… and it has no strength to stand on its own… it is we who are keeping peace (‘God’) at a distance through this lack of trust in life. It is this lack of trust that holds together all our attachment, all our selfishness, all our ignore-ance.

My work – my gift to you – is to help you find that trust again... that innocence.

Spirituality is just about finding Peace.
In that Peace we recognise, and Realise, our very own Self, and the virtues so cherished in the world's spiritual teachings arise spontaneously.

Only in peace can this Infinite Presence of Self be realised, only in Grace. This is why your efforts may be going in vain.

Another opportunity to see the whole series

about Self-realisation and the non-dual (Advaita)

teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj.

First film at 18h30:

Second film at 21h:

Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi are considered to be the two greatest representatives of Self-realisation and Advaita (non-dualist understanding).

Contribution: €3

Bring your dinner :o)

Siva - Vasi - VaSiVaSiVaSiVaSiVaSi

In an 'esoteric' understanding of Saiva Siddhanta Yoga practice, 'Siva' (or 'Shiva') is not 'a god'...

Siva is energy and is the breath of life. 'Siva' is both life itself (as breath/'spirit') and the means to attune to the flow of life (through bringing attention to one's breath).

(Being representative of 'Spirit' or 'Source', Siva is also associated specifically with the Crown Chakra, or 'Sahasrara' Chakra.)

From the Sutra Jnanam by Valmiki Siddhar:

"What we are now in this eternal moment is the sacred Divine Breath, Vasi!"

What leads us to the infinite mind of the universe, through Ida and Pingala (the twin energy of Mother Kundalini), the left and right breath is this sacred Divine Breath, Vasi!

The One who posses this infinite universal mind is the Perfected Being, the Siddhar

Realizing all the living in the Universe as Sacred- as Siva, the Absolute is the Siddhar."

On Yoga and Tantra - 'transcendence' and 'integration' - from 'The Yoga Tradition' by Georg Feuerstein, PhD.

"India's Psychospiritual technology has been subject to a ruling paradigm, which can be described as verticalism: Reality is thought to be realizable by inverting attention and then manipulating the inwardly focused consciousness to ascend into ever-higher states in the inner hierarchy of experience until everything is transcended...

This vertical model of spirituality is founded in archaic mythical imagery, which pictures Reality in polar opposition to conditional existence: Heaven above, Earth below. As the contemporary adept Da Free John (Adi Da) has shown, this model is a conceptual representation of the human nervous system. As he put it succinctly:

The key to mystical language and religious metaphor is not

theology or cosmology but anatomy. All the religious and cosmological language of mysticism is metaphorical. And the metaphors are symbols for anatomical features of the higher functional structures of the human individual.

Those who enter deeply into the mystical dimension of experience soon discover that the cosmic design they expected to find in their inward path of ascent to God is in fact simply the design of their own anatomical or psychophysical structures. Indeed, this is the secret divulged to initiates of mystical schools."

More recently, Joe Nigro Sansonese explored the somatic origins of myth in his [...] work The Body of Myth. He defined myths succinctly as "culture-laden descriptions of samadhi."As he explained, each meditation takes the yogin or yogini deep into the body [...]. This somatic journey is then externalised in mythic utterances. There is much truth to Sansonese's statement, but it is not the entire truth. Some states of consciousness go beyond proprioception, beyond the body, and it is precisely these states that the Yoga adepts seek to cultivate. Enlightenment or liberation itself is definitely a body-transcending condition. Here the entire universe becomes a "body" for the liberated being.

The most severe limitation of the verticalist paradigm is that it involves an understanding of spiritual life as a progressive inward journey from unenlightenment to enlightenment. This gives rise to the misconception that Reality is to be found within, away from the world, and that, consequently, to renounce the world means to abandon it.

It is to the credit of India's adepts that this paradigm did not remain unchalleged. For instance, in Tantra, which straddles both Hinduism and Buddhism, a different understanding of spirituality is present. [...] Tantra is founded in the radical assumption that if Reality is anywhere, it must be everywhere and not merely inside the human psyche. The great dictum of Tantrism is that the transcendental Reality and the conditional world are coessential - nirvana equals samsara. In other words, transcendental ecstasy and sensory pleasure are not finally incompatible. Upon enlightenment, pleasure reveals itself to be ecstasy. In the unenlightened state, pleasure is simply a substitute for the ecstasy that is its abiding ground. This insight has led to a philosophy of integration between spiritual concerns and material existence, which is particularly relevant today."