Category: Great Fruit

  • Total Immersion – Nothing Left to Oppose

    Total Immersion – Nothing Left to Oppose

    Read time 3 minutes. Total Immersion is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. The revolution doesn’t begin with calm.It begins when you let yourself feel everything —and you stop backing away. Nothing is erased. The flood still comes.The ego still calls from the shore.What changes is the way you meet it.All of it. For most…

  • Not the River Beside You — The River As You

    Not the River Beside You — The River As You

    Read time 2 minutes. Everything moving through you is you. The River As You is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. Why do so many teachings whisper presence and oneness—then turn around and say: Step outside your thoughts. They aren’t you. Such teachings are half-truths.Training wheels.They get the ball rolling. In Sometimes the Flood, we saw…

  • Stillness As Depth: Holding Emotion Without Being Overwhelmed

    Stillness As Depth: Holding Emotion Without Being Overwhelmed

    Read time 2 minutes. Stillness As Depth is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. In Sometimes the Flood, we saw that the flood can cleanse.Sometimes the flood can bowl you over. But nothing overtakes youwhen you know you are largerthan what moves through you. People confuse stillness with shutdown.With numbness.With some get your Zen on…

  • Emotional Overwhelm: Sacred Letting Go | Sometimes the Flood

    Emotional Overwhelm: Sacred Letting Go | Sometimes the Flood

    Read time 2 minutes. Emotional Overwhelm is a stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. There are things we think we can’t do without.People we think we can’t live without.And then—without a sound—they’re gone. You feel it in your chest. In your throat.That moment right before the tears.Like your body—your whole world—is a held breath. We…

  • Feeling Free All the Time: The Oh Yeah State of Mind

    Feeling Free All the Time: The Oh Yeah State of Mind

    Read time 2 minutes. Feeling Free All the Time is the first stand alone article in our Spiritual Immersion series. Back in The Studio Season 1, I was talking about the Kool-Aid Man, Randy Savage, and Slim Jims. I left you with a promise: there’s a connection here. And so… Obviously, the whole “Oh Yeah”…

  • One Hand Clapping. It’s a Vibe

    One Hand Clapping. It’s a Vibe

    Read time about 3 minutes. Introducing the new Greatfruit Zen Mind. Sometimes a phrase becomes a cliché in real time.And sometimes, you still have to use it—because it’s just too perfect. So here we go: Greatfruit Zen Mind: It’s a vibe. (Ugh. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.)Allow me to explain……

  • A New Model of Reality: No Before, No After—Only Now, Vibing

    A New Model of Reality: No Before, No After—Only Now, Vibing

    Read time 11 minutes. The final article in the series regarding a new model of reality. A shift is here. We’ve been exploring a new way of seeing reality, and today’s lesson marks a turning point. It’s a bridge between the old perspective and the new one. This article itself is highly emblematic of that…

  • The Nature of Ego: Echoes Without a Cause

    The Nature of Ego: Echoes Without a Cause

    Read time about 3 minutes. Explore the nature of ego, identity and reality. This stand alone article is part of our new model of reality series. What is the nature of ego?And what does Joseph Goldstein mean when he says,“…thoughts themselves are the thinker”? The 5 Phantoms of the Ego tells us ego is a mirage—a…

  • The Origin of Self-Awareness: The Mirror Cracks

    The Origin of Self-Awareness: The Mirror Cracks

    Read time 3 minutes. The first movement in the valley. The echo begins to stir. The origin of self-awareness. This stand alone article is part of our new model of reality series. We’ve been building a new model of reality—steadily, one insight at a time.This article returns to the beginning.Or rather, the beginning of beginning: the…