The Seven Spiritual Laws
Many years ago, I read Deepak Chopra’s book “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success“. Last night at his talk in Vancouver, 2 different tables had little weekly reminder fold-out cards, a day for each law. …
Category: History
Dead Ends
Most of us find certain points in our life’s journey where we face what can seem like an impossible decision. A damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario. These can be so prominent …
The Story Tells a Story
If you’ve done any self-work to any depth, you’ve undoubtedly run into our story-telling nature. We love a good story. But sadly, we also like lousy stories, stories that bring us pain and sadness. People …
Lost Purpose
Spiritual writers often talk a lot about subjects like ego identification and the suffering that results from it. We may get the sense that ego is bad, but this is a misunderstanding of its role …
Memory
I’d like to go a little more abstract for a moment. (laughs) I’ve spoken before about how consciousness is always shifting and adjusting. Tuning our awareness so we respond in the right way at the …
OOOPs
From Vasistha’s Yoga (translated by Swami Venkatesananda) IV:39 Valmiki is speaking: “..if he is not enabled fully to understand the truth, his mind will not find rest. As long as the mind is swayed by …
The Mirrors of Life
I’ve seen a few talks by Gregg Braden that I found tiresome. The way he uses science is way too sloppy. It was much the same last week while a group of us watched his …
To Battle and Surrender
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian, 1892-1971 That classic …
Western Meditation
We tend to think of meditation as an “eastern” practice while prayer is the more western thing. I was raised in a Christian church. In my late teens, I became fascinated by research on consciousness. …
Tolle meets Balsekar
An interesting story of when Eckhart Tolle met Ramesh Balsekar, an Advaita (non-duality) proponent who was a student of Nisargadatta. The author suggests Advaita and Tolle’s Dwaita (duality) are 2 possible paths to the same …
A Milestone
A small milestone for the blog. This is the 800th post. I certainly didn’t expect to write so much. But life has a way of finding it’s way through available resources. (laughs) 6 more posts …
One Prediction of a Golden Age
A 10,000 year golden age is predicted in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana 4.129 by Krisna. Excerpts: “On the earth 5,000 years of Kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing.” …