Stream of Being Work

The inner work I do with clients is based on the coming together of my experience as a practitioner and teacher of Vajrayana Buddhism, my studies in mysticism from various traditions, my training and work as a psychotherapist, and my training with Faisal Muqaddam in Diamond Logos. I call this work Stream of Being Work. "Stream of Being" is a Tibetan term used in a way that is similar to how we use the word "soul," but there is a key difference between the two words. Soul implies a consistent entity—a thingness—but we are more like a stream than a thing, because we are consciousness itself, ever present and ever changing.

Our stream of being includes our pure being as well as our karmic obscurations and conditioning. If you remove boulders from a stream, it starts to really flow. In Stream of Being Work, we clear away the blocks and obstacles that keep us from experiencing the stream of our pure being, which is our wisdom consciousness and love. The more we are able to access our own pure being, the more we are able to nourish ourselves and others, participating in the work needed to transform the human race to a higher level of consciousness. 

Stream of Being Work emphasizes the simultaneous use of spiritual practice and the deep, inner work needed to heal wounds left over from past trauma and remove the habitual patterns that block our full expression. Trauma causes parts of ourselves to splinter off and compartmentalize. The deep inner work done in Stream of Being assists us in fully reclaiming all of our parts by getting to know them—witnessing their suffering with love so their fixations can dissolve and integrate.

At the same time, our spiritual work gives us the tools to go into these painful places—helping us to sit through all different kinds of experiences with the knowledge that things come and go. With practice, we develop confidence that we are not just our ego, and that even if we are going through difficult things, fundamentally we are okay—our essential nature is basic goodness.  As we move through this process, we learn to disidentify from the ego—not so we can kill it, but so that with love, we can help it to unwind, relax, trust, and integrate with pure being. Pure being or true nature is wakefulness and openness. As ego unwinds its fixations, it gradually becomes transparent with true nature. More and more we experience the fullness, wholeness and richness of ourselves and our world.