Indy Boswell

On one’s way to enlightenment (or Essence of Mind) there is no better warning for the aspirant than the one that says “You’re Thinking Too Much.” In other words, the Essence of Mind (or original enlightenment) is free from Thoughts. The Essence of Mind is Eternal, non-changing, and thus must be empty of changing thoughts.

It is important to understand that Knowledge is different from Wisdom, and Knowledge derived from Thoughts does not lead to Enlightenment. In other words, words are words, thoughts are thoughts, and neither lead to True Wisdom or Enlightenment. Read the rest of this entry »

The title for my first novel, The Sower’s Seeds, was inspired from a parable that can be found in four different gospels: Matthew (Chapter 13); Mark (Chapter 4); Luke (Chapter 8); and last, but not least Thomas (saying number 9). The parable goes something like this:

“The sower went out, took a handful of seeds, and scattered them. Some fell on the road, and the birds came and devoured them. Others fell on rock, and they didn’t take root in the soil and didn’t produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure.” (Thomas version). Read the rest of this entry »

Although I have some fairly notable accomplishments from my business life to look back upon and for which I can be proud. I know that nothing in my previous business life comes close to that which I accomplished in the writing of my first novel, The Sower’s Seeds.

Even so, about a year after the novel was published I became discouraged when the great American novel of my dreams did not receive the national and international acclaim that I thought it deserved. Read the rest of this entry »

A hypocrite is a person who pretends to have desirable or publicly approved attitudes, beliefs, principals, etc. he does not actually possess. As I think about what I am trying to do with my writing and this website, I wonder: Am I a hypocrite?

Through both experience and study, I have constructed a Pyramid consisting of the following eleven Virtues as a test for me to follow. These are: Love, Faith, Charity, Purity, Non-Judgment, Patience, Truthfulness, Strength, Temperance, Poverty of Spirit, and Humility. Read the rest of this entry »

My brother is a very successful business person, and one day while I was right smack in the middle of writing The Sower’s Seeds, my first novel, he said that he did not understand why anyone would waste his or her time writing anything, let alone something as meaningless as a novel of fiction.

Although the intent of my brother’s remark was not meant to offend—he was actually concerned about my well being—I would be lying if I said his words did not raise serious doubts about what I was doing with my writing endeavor.
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By the grace of God I am a Christian, by my actions a great sinner, and by calling a homeless wanderer of the simplest origins, traveling from place to place. As so begins the tale of The Way of a Pilgrim, so I will begin my website blog. Read the rest of this entry »