The resurrection is a description of how the universe self-corrects, life always reasserting itself even when forces of death and darkness have temporarily prevailed. Like a tiny flower growing through cracks in broken cement, peace of mind emerging at last after periods of deep grief, or people continuing to...
"What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh Everything we do is new. Everything is something we've never done before. Whether we recognize it or not, whether we let ourselves in on it or not, we've never had this moment before. Eaten this dinner on this...
The syllable gu means shadows The syllable ru, he who disperses them, Because of the power to disperse darkness the guru is thus named. Advayataraka Upanishad All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you take yourself to be.' Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj For years...
Being a person is not something one can do. It is not a performance. It may require that we stop our frantic business, that we take time out to breathe and to feel. In the process we may feel our pain, but if we have the courage to...
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha What am I going to share with the world today? What will I share with the people in...
[Upanishad] is that which is learnt sitting close to the teacher with complete humility in order to understand the ultimate supreme truth. What is the content of the Upanishad? It is 'Brahma Vidya' - knowledge or understanding of the 'Brahman’…the Supreme Reality behind the entire phenomenon...
It is only when you come to a situation where you are face to face with sorrow that you stop and look at that which is beyond. If you are always happy, if you always get a lollipop to suck - which is what the...
All things spiritual boil down to your relationships in day-to-day life. Otherwise, we can just sit at home and meditate for hours, and be the same person when we come out. It does not work. Sri M In other words: be nice. We meditate in order to experience the...
But there come times-perhaps this is one of them - when we have to take ourselves more seriously or die; when we have to pull back from the incantations, rhythms we've moved to thoughtlessly, and disenthrall ourselves, bestow ourselves to silence, or a deeper listening, cleansed of oratory, formulas, choruses, laments,...
There is a Universal Wholeness seeking expression through everything. We are calling it simply Life. The religionist calls it God. The philosopher calls it Reality. Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. We seek a 'spiritual experience' because each of us feels the truth...