The world is increasingly complicated. This increased complexity is not helped by the fact that people are less aware of simple principles and simple practices. Simplicity is often overlooked, and yet simplicity is exactly the thing that tends to be effortlessly helpful and near endlessly applicable in situations of complexity. Complexity normally has limited applicability, […]
art by Tatiana Plakhova By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing writer for Wake Up World Warning! Before proceeding to review this article further, understand, you are about to be exposed to information that the majority of the gaggle you know may not be ready for. If you are sheepish or fidgety like a chicken, move along. If […]
By Ethan Indigo Smith, Wake Up World “The elders knew peace would not come on the Earth until the circle of humanity is complete; until all four colors sat in the circle and shared their teachings.” The sacred medicine wheel of the four directions is for all extents and purposes a mandala, a visual depiction […]
30th October 2013 By Ethan Indigo Smith Contributing Writer for Wake Up World “Is the universe eternal? Or not? Or both? Or neither? Is the universe finite? Or not? Or both? Or neither? Is the self identical with the body? Or is the self different from the body? Does the Tathagata* exist after death? Or […]