Category: <span>Healing</span>

Knowledge and Ignorance

“Through ignorance, we cross beyond mortality (change). Through knowledge, we gain immortality.” – Isha Upanishad 11 Of course, the opening line doesn’t mean by being stupid, we reach the absolute. Ignorance is how the Sanskrit …

Peace of Body-Mind

“Peace of mind and physical well-being are closely related. Some years ago, a scientist at Emory University told me that continuous anger, fear and suspicion tend to eat into our immune system. Besides, peace of …

The Laundromat

I’ve spoken a great deal about healing and purification over the years. When we first take up a spiritual or healing practice, we gradually realize how we resist and contract and we learn to release. …

Filling The Void

North America has an obesity epidemic. They relate this to what people are eating and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. But these are not what is driving the issue. These are symptoms. Food is being used …

Order and Symmetry

As I’ve written, intelligence is a fundamental quality of Divinity. There is an ordering principle underlying all experiences. In fact, without a constant input of order, the world around us would dissolve to dust. That’s …

Moving and Still

For much of our life, we’ve been immersed in movement, in activity. But after we learn to meditate, we begin to experience stillness. Then things seem to have two states, moving and still, relative and …

Styles of Stress

I’ve spoken before about our dominant guna (quality) and how this affects our emotions and the way we experience the world. A very similar model arises from dominant elements in the physiology. A dominant element …

Our Storage

When we’re not accepting life as it is, there’s two ways we respond: – grasping or attachment, trying to hold on to what we want. – resistance or avoidance, pushing away what we don’t want. …

Others Actions

Karma means action but refers to both the doing and the consequences. It’s often described as unfathomable because it operates “in the commons.” Everything is intertwined with everything else. It’s also layered, causing action to …

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