Touching Wholeness
Reflections from the field by Darananda
A direct introduction to how awakening moves through form.
This piece offers the foundation for what I call The Cosmology of the Awakened Body -- a living framework of awakening through form. It articulates the orientation that underlies all my work: that awakening is not an attainment, but a natur...
Innocence, Evil, and the Return to Wholeness
Evil seldom looks extraordinary. It moves through the mundane: the half-truth, the withheld word, the quiet retreat from what is real. What we call evil begins not in hatred or monstrosity, but in a lapse of intimacy with reality. This darkness grows thr...
Completing the trilogy on power, responsibility, and the restoration of relationship
The Mechanism of Division
One of the oldest currencies of separation is blame. Through it, we buy a sense of safety at the cost of wholeness. When something in life presses against the identity we’ve built to feel...
Freeing the heart from the subtle, relational form of “emotional labor”—distinct from workplace or identity-politics debates
We live in a culture that rewards codependent habits, much of it operating beneath awareness. We inherit these patterns from what was modeled and praised in childhood, inclu...
How self-honesty, self-respect, and self-responsibility cut through the fog of our times
Clarity is more than a bright thought or a passing moment of insight; it is a whole-body resonance—quiet, unmistakable, steadying. When clarity arrives, the inner landscape organizes itself and what is false ca...
A Field Offering for Those Dying of Hunger
Transmission and guided transmutation offered by Darananda with the field anchored and supported by collective members
Registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/
Right now, across the world, people are dying of...
Wisdom and compassion are two essential pathways to cultivate for spiritual growth, development, and holistic life well-being. In the interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism I was taught, Wisdom is related to the feminine and Compassion to the masculine. This is often surprising to people. See, there is ...
In what follows I offer an intimate personal share, an announcement, and an invitation. May you find benefit in reading it all the way through. And I thank you.
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On the whole my thirties have been a wild dharmic ride. Someth...
