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Bliss Bubbles from the Beyond - 6th Week of the Katha Upanishads Throughout the study of the Katha Upanishads, we’ve been receiving the teachings through Yama, the Lord of Death, via the story of his encounter with the young boy Nachiketa. Nachiketa and ourselves have essentially (and bravely!) chosen to make Death our  Guru , as we boldly begin to delve into it’s deep mysteries. However along this journey, we are also starting to recognise the wonderful paradox that Yama – Death himself,  truly and   totally believes in our capacity for LIFE .  In our complete entitlement to freedom.  It turns out that Yama is actually 100% life-affirming, utterly pro-life and absolutely life  LOVING . This week, Yama brings us deeper into the untouchable – the unshakeable place within us all that even Death cannot reach. For this, he gives us the gift of one word. “I will give you the word all scriptures glorify, ...

The fifth week of the Katha Upanishads….an invitation to come and sit near to the Guru within yourself. Throughout the journey, we’ve been downloading the wisdom of Yama, Lord of Death, through the story of the brave boy Nachiketa. We start off this week with a note on wisdom, and how we can deal with the sometimes overwhelming supply of it all! We’re always learning, and especially when we are choosing to enquire deeper we can be presented with so many awesome insights. This could potentially lead us to think we need to suddenly become completely enlightened with all the wisdom we have received, and perhaps never make a ‘mistake’ again. We can think learning is a 1-2-3 step process…learn the wisdom, and BAM that’s it - you’re perfect and you have all the ‘answers’ and you’ve officially NAILED IT. Off you go! How terribly boring that would be. The thing is, wisdom is not designed to be ‘nailed’. It is beyond nailing. It is non-nail-able . We can sometimes start to ta...

Ruling your own Inner City…(Katha Upanishads week 4) We continue on to week four with the teachings of the Katha Upanishads – essentially in truth, a deep conversation with our highest self.  Up until now, we’ve explored the first two teachings that Nachiketa receives from Yama, the Lord of Death. Questioning the idea of what it is that can ‘die’ within us and what it is that cannot.  We found out that we only ever have two choices in front of us, Preya and Shreya – what isn’t beneficial in the long run, and then what is ultimately better for us. And to further understand how to make these two choices, we learned an analogy of our being – understanding that our body, mind and senses are vessel which we must learn to control to navigate through this life. Which brings Yama to his next point in how to defy Death itself….A challenging statement: “Nachiketa, what most people are actually experiencing of life, is really just a slow process of death”, says Yama. “A...