We think of it as inevitable, but that is not true. Suffering arises in the unquestioned mind and spreads from there. It is an ingrained habit, no more. And we can change habits.
Our thoughts run into the past and the future, imagining what was and could go wrong. Observe it. These regrets and worries are [...]
We don’t want to suffer. So what do we need to do when it comes, small or big? Grin and bear it? Hope for a better world after we die? All that has been tried. I prefer to end suffering.
Many voices that will tell you it’s impossible, that suffering is part of life. But not [...]
Most of us cannot even relate to this language – ‘Self-Love,’ it sounds like narcissism, like self-indulgence, somehow over the top and too much. And yet, when we look at its pure manifestation, it is the most important quality we can develop.
In truth most of us are rather removed from loving ourselves much of the [...]
A vision that could be yours: standing in front of an assembly of enlightened beings and the impact that vision can have
As soon as the word ‘guru’ entered the Western world it was misunderstood. Although we have a perfect example of what the word means in the figure of Jesus, we still could not understand it.
And so we reduced it and reduced it until now everyone who knows (or pretends to know) anything can call himself [...]
