The 4 Paths
In a recent interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump, Rick spoke with Karunamayi. She touched on the need for patience and tolerance, blossoming from spiritual maturity. She also spoke of how everything will be …
Category: Love
Rays of the Absolute
Neti Neti Films has recently released a labour of love. Rays of the Absolute is a documentary with archival footage of Nisargadatta and more recent meetings with some of his core students. Shot in 2007, …
The Risen Christ
I heard a talk last Sunday on Palm Sunday and Easter. The talk of the risen Christ reminded me of how some people use the term Ascension. It’s a word I generally avoid as people …
Resolving Problems
I’ve written before on very practical ways of solving problems. I’d like to take a more energetic look at the subject because sometimes the problems are showing up due to how we’re being internally. For …
Four Kinds of Happiness
In a recent article on Huffington Post, they mention: “In his book Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, a leading authority in the fields of Positive Psychology and resilience who studies emotionally successful lives, identifies three distinct …
Correction vs Evolution
The experience of living life after a well-established awakening is quite distinct. Not everyone speaks of this or even notices the change if it came gradually. Only in retrospect or in seeing someone else struggle …
Fulfilling Needs
Our body, emotions and mind all have needs of one sort or another. The need for food, water, and air. For comfort and security. For love, intimacy, and companionship. For a making sense of the …
The (fake) Priest Who Met God
A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed… The …
Self Sufficiency
Eckhart Tolle speaks of the pain body, what might be called our blob of unresolved experiences or incomplete emotions or karma. With the dawning of Cosmic Consciousness, we lose our attachment to a me and …
The Fear of Love
At a talk today, the minister Bruce Sanguin mentioned how the ego defends against love. Love requires surrender which the ego abhors. It has to consent to let it be. While the radio may be …
Shankara – Before and After
Adi Shankara was a renowned Indian sage who consolidated Advaita Vedanta or non-dualism. He lived from roughly 788 to 820, travelling throughout India and re-establishing non-dualism and the value of monasticism. He wrote extensive commentary …
On Bliss
I’ve spoken here before about how Life is literally Bliss – the very flow of life itself is profoundly blissful if we’re open to that. The Upanishads tell us we’re born of bliss. I’ve also …