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LIFE IS CHANGE: Learn to let go of fear and accept change
Imagine that you have your hands full of chocolate cookies and your mother comes along with a cherry pie, hot from the oven with crumbles on top (feel free to…
ABIDING HAPPINESS: Embracing the reality of life with acceptance
Why don’t my children listen to me? Why can’t politicians tell the truth? Why did it have to rain on my wedding day? Reality baffles us. We question it every day…
CHRIST FOR BEGINNERS: Becoming aware of the God in all things
Born into a reformed Jewish family and growing up in a suburb of St. Louis in the 1950s, my first memory connected with Christ was my dawning awareness, in…
EXCITED MIND: Using meditation to calm overly stimulated senses
The mind is not just the brain, but the sum of the physical, mental, and spiritual. We have six senses in total: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, and thought…
MOVING INTO STILLNESS: The Core of Goodness
As you sit quietly and immerse yourself in the peace and stillness of your own centered being, you will gradually begin to experience yourself in an undistorted…
MIND CLEANSING SCHOOL: Finding fulfillment in life as a janitor
Life gives us an interesting plate. As an undergraduate I majored in business administration and minored in philosophy. A religious experience in my …
BLESS YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE: A prescription for personal and planetary healing
Some thirty-five years ago on a warm summer evening I was present as a very wise man lectured on the theme “Bless Your Circumstance.”…
SELF-IMMOLATION #8: Tibet’s nonviolent freedom movement grows desperate
Norbu Damdul, a 19 year-old former monk from Tibet, set himself ablaze yesterday in bold defiance of worsening Chinese oppression. Damdul was heard shouting “Tibet, the Land of Snow, should be independent. His Holiness the Dalai Lama should be allowed to return to Tibet,” before getting doused with water and brutally beaten by Chinese police then hauled away to an unknown location.
KARMA YOGA: Wearing away the ego, one toilet at a time
KARMA YOGA Wearing away the ego, one toilet at a time I’d always struggled with the concept of work in my life. In the quest to find fulfilling work, I’d never stayed in a job for long. I was trapped by the need to satisfy my muse—my passion to help the world—while still making enough [...]
SIMPLICITY: The journey to wholeness
SIMPLICITY The journey to wholeness A Buddhist story relates the life of the great saint Nagarjuna who moved around naked except for a loincloth and, incongruously, a golden begging bowl gifted to him by the King, who was his disciple. One night he was about to lie down to sleep among the ruins of an [...]
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CONTEMPLATION: The Path to Awakening
How often are we truly alone with ourselves for any prolonged period of time? How often do we enter into a space of stilled silence? How often do we find sufficient time in order to think and reflect upon our lives? One of the biggest problems we face in our economically-driven world is over-activity – the desire to constantly be striving for something. Rushing around, trying to speed up this moment in order to enter the next, never quite knowing that underlying all this energy is anxiety – a deep anxiety that grips us by the collar and won’t let us go.
Prickly feelings in spirituality and holistic medicine
Many of us experience that prickly feeling with the body hair standing on end and theBhagavad Gita : Krishna and Arjuna skin looking like “goose bumps” time and again. It is usually associated or identified with chills, shiver and certain emotional states. Less known, however, is that this prickle is informative and effective in the fields of health care and spirituality. This is suggested by both medical studies and the experience of spiritual masters of different cultures.
The flow
An adult heart pumps up to 2000 gallons of blood throughout our body every day, without any need for conscious thought. The flow of life is much like blood being pumped throughout our body. Just as the heart works without conscious thought, so it is easy to live life according to the dominant paradigm of global capitalism without questioning it.
Real Elder Men
Real Elder Men The male hero of myth and legend is a young man who saves a victim or captures a great treasure. He seeks conquest and new horizons to control. He sacrifices himself for the greater good and is energized by the drives of Eros and the libido. The mature hero is a Warrior. [...]
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