Institute of Abiding Bliss

Institute of Abiding Bliss Spiritual advising, teaching, and consultation. I didn’t have a framework for it at the time. You are, as the traditions unanimously affirm, already whole.

At sixteen, I had an experience that changed the entire orientation of my life — a direct, unmistakable recognition of the non-dual nature of reality. What I had was certainty: that something vast and luminous was always already present beneath the surface of ordinary experience, and that I wanted to spend my life understanding it. That pursuit has taken me through thirty years of contemplative pr

actice and formal academic study. I hold a PhD in Asian Comparative Studies with a focus in Indian Philosophy of Religion. I am a practitioner within the Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition, and a student of Trika Śaivism. My formation spans meditation, yoga, Buddhist philosophy, and Tantra — not as intellectual interests alone, but as living disciplines tested against the full weight of actual life. My work begins from a simple but countercultural premise: the sacred is not sequestered in temples, on meditation cushions, or behind institutional religious doors. Contemplative wisdom — the kind that has been refined across millennia and across cultures — is eminently practical. It speaks directly to the texture of ordinary experience: to difficulty, to uncertainty, to the search for meaning when life refuses to cooperate. I founded The Institute of Abiding Bliss to create a space where that wisdom is made genuinely accessible — rigorous enough to be real, grounded enough to be useful. Whether you are new to contemplative practice or arrive with years of your own, my role is not to hand you a system but to help you recognize what is already present in your own awareness. The work is one of uncovering, not acquiring. I’d be glad to be in conversation. Reach me at [email protected].

Language is Impotent: A Musing on GodPrompted by a simple question on a spring afternoon. A friend posed the question op...
05/09/2026

Language is Impotent: A Musing on God

Prompted by a simple question on a spring afternoon.

A friend posed the question openly, to anyone willing to answer:

"What is your personal definition of God?"

Perhaps this is an important inquiry and meaningful quest. I pretend it is. I've assigned profound significance to the question and to the search. Since my earliest memory, the excavation of God has been the object of my devotion.

Is meeting one's object of inquiry, devoid of one's own projections, possible? Perhaps a true encounter with the object of inquiry occurs solely via these projections.

Playfully I have looked. Through the eyes of a practitioner I have observed. As an academic I have studied.

I would not, intentionally, claim to know anything beyond that which I have seen and experienced. Presently, that is all I may offer. The divinity, God, This, Consciousness, Self — the sounds utilized are inconsequential. This will not be imprisoned by linguistic cages or disabled with description. The ephemeral and perpetual lie of thought circumambulates rather than dissects.
My search has not brought me any God. Everything uncovered persistently reveals I know nothing.

"Can you summarize it into just a few words?" she asked.

God cannot be known through conventional means.

"Through unconventional means?" '

By conventional I mean it will not be apprehended or explained with thought or words. This is impossible. Neither language nor thought have the capacity to capture such profound emptiness. I must be abundantly clear: I lack the ability to present an absolute truth, or any truth whatsoever. I may only attempt to point to what I have experienced of This — that which lies beyond thought and form.

Following forty years of persistent, passionate inquiry, what was uncovered was this: God, or whatever label mind attempts to pin on it, evades mind's voracious thirst to enslave anything it apprehends.

Here, language is impotent.

What is experienced of God may only be acquiesced through silence and space.

There is only nothing to be known.

When you begin to see through society's deception, you no longer fit in. This is the benediction of Awareness. Once you ...
03/30/2026

When you begin to see through society's deception, you no longer fit in. This is the benediction of Awareness.

Once you see beneath the surface, the world no longer seems simple. You notice the games people play. The fake confidence. The hidden motives. Lucidly, you perceive society's foundation is built upon layers of lies. You observe people moving through life like sheep. They merely exist. You can not unsee this.
When you speak up, the sheep exclaim that you are overthinking. They say you are delusional.

Now you no longer speak up. You begin to observe. You are removed from the flock. This is not because you are better than the sheep, but you now comprehend what is actually occurring. The true nature of things is revealed. Playing the game, remaining in the lie is no longer an option.

You are met with the isolation of Awareness. Truth brings annihilation. You are incinerated. Nothing remains.
This is the price of clarity.

The crowd, the flock, the lies are forsaken. Thereupon Truth is revealed.

The dream our society has created is defective. Alienating. Those who think outside the prevailing paradigm are ostraciz...
03/29/2026

The dream our society has created is defective. Alienating. Those who think outside the prevailing paradigm are ostracized. Marginaliized. Labeled as "crazy" and ignored. Then society suffers a significant loss.

It is time for the collective consciousness to create a new dream. Otherwise we will destroy ourselves.

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01/31/2026

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How true it was when Franz Kafka said, "I was embarrassed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I showe...
11/18/2025

How true it was when Franz Kafka said, "I was embarrassed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I showed up wearing my real face."

Because, honestly, that how it feels sometimes.

Everyone is pretending.

Confident.

Perect.

Untouchable.

And there you are showing up honest, thinking that's what others want.

But then you realize being real makes people uncomfortable.

So start to dime it down a little. Smile more. Say less. Try to fit in rooms that were never meant for you.

And maybe it works for awhile, but the mask starts to feel heavy.

You start missing yourself.

And that's when it hits you. You're not wrong for showing up real. You're one of the ones who still remember who they are underneath the costume.

- TheFallenPoet

A beautiful long life ceremony was offered on October 31st in Dharamsala, India, to the 90 year old living Buddha, His H...
11/02/2025

A beautiful long life ceremony was offered on October 31st in Dharamsala, India, to the 90 year old living Buddha, His Holiness, Kundun, the Presence, Tenzin Gyato, the 14th Dalai Lama.

The Long Life Prayer to His Holiness:
གངས་རི་རྭ་བས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། །

gangri rawe korwe zhingkham su
གངས་རི་རྭ་བས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། །

gangri rawe korwe zhingkham su
ཕན་དང་བདེ་བ་མ་ལུས་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས། །

pen dang dewa malü jungwe ne
སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་བསྟན༵་འཛི༵ན་རྒྱ༵་མཚོ༵་ཡི། །

chenrezik wang tenzin gyatso yi
ཞབས་པད་བསྐལ་བརྒྱའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་གྱུར་ཅིག །

zhabpe kal gye bardu ten gyur chik

English:
In the heavenly realm of Tibet, surrounded by a chain of snow mountains,

The source of all happiness and help for beings

Is Tenzin Gyatso— Chenrezig in person —

May his life be secure for hundreds of aeons.!

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