Sudeva's Healing Arts

We all know the feeling. Something is needed and we don’t know quite what it is. You’re feeling stressed or distracted, anxious or unhappy. Sitting in front of the computer screen, you’re meant to be working and nothing is happening. In the past, it would have been time for a smoke. Nowadays, that’s probably difficult, even if you still want to. So, what to do?

“The only difference between us is our beliefs and beliefs can be created and discreated with ease.” Harry Palmer – Author of the Avatar Materials

Recently I was introduced to a course known as Avatar. Having no prior exposure to it, but being curious, I read all the material I could find, and the more I read, the more intrigued I became.

“This very earth is the Lotus Land of purity, and this very body the Body of Buddha.”

This phrase originates with the Zen master Hakuin, cited by Alan Watts (1961, p.173). It has been paraphrased by many other spiritual masters to explain that what keeps us from our true nature, also known as the buddha nature, is the inability to live in the present moment.