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Embracing Deep Transitions With Wisdom
As we stand at the precipice of endings—of species, ecosystems, organizations, and systems themselves—the work of hospicing...
Wisdom Of Rocks
Let us linger on the wisdom of rocks—not as inert masses but as carriers of time, witnesses to cycles far beyond human...
Transforming The Wandering Mind
Meditation is the reversal of the process that establishes our habitual tendencies. Consequently, the establishment of habitual...
Fakers and Teachers
How can you tell whether a certain advisor or book is truly accurate? What if the teacher or book is just as confused as you, while...
Mushin
The idea of marital arts was that a person who is working for the good of humanity does not develop an aggressive nature but a peaceful...
Dance of Life
Your body is composed of the elements of nature -- earth, wind, fire, and water -- the ancients said. Your mind and spirit are beyond...
If You Don't Go Within, You Simply Go Without
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of...
It Is Life That Asks The Questions Of Us
The question can no longer be “What can I expect from life?” but can now only be “What does life expect of me?”...
To Be Worthy Of Our Suffering
Dostoevski said once, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." These words frequently came to...
Worthy Of Your Suffering
There were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision which determined whether you would...
Deep Place Within
As your consciousness descends deeper and deeper, you move from a peripheral mode of thinking toward the creative source of thought...
What Is A Pilgrimage?
What is a pilgrimage? And who is a pilgrim? Life itself is a pilgrimage. The whole lifetime is the time for undertaking...
Perfume Of Wholeness
A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of...
Growing in Spontaneity
Never argue with one's own understanding. The whisper of intelligence is always there, whatever you do. If you create a time lag...
Force Of Love Is The Force Of Total Revolution
A tender, loving concern for all living creatures will need to arise and reign in our hearts if any of us is to survive. And our lives...
The Delight in Exploring Inner Territory
As long as we cling to the idea that this is "my mind, my own, personal mind," we will have a strong tendency to look as good...
Privacy Is Not Possible
Traditionally, the investigating of psychological weaknesses in relation to social action has been taboo, not acceptable. As long as a...
What is Meditation?
"This awareness of the so called outward and the inward movements of life, is meditation. The simultaneous awareness of the total...
How Observation Changes Relationships
When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the...
The Essence of Spirituality
To be spiritual is to be related to the visible, invisible and the infinite aspects of life simultaneously. True spirituality never...
Sacred Nothingness
"Vimalaji," I say, "these days a lot of people are interested in spirituality and yet it seems that only in very few is there a radical...
The Lovely State of Observation
There are two parts of life. Motion and motionlessness. Movement is one part of life but to be in a state of...
Watching Volcanoes Explode
We must become deeply aware of our bondage if we value freedom. We begin to watch our behavior throughout the day; we notice the fear,...
Each of Us, a Miniature Wholeness
Internally, we are divided against ourselves; the emotions want one thing, the intellect another, the impulses of the body yet another,...
Spirituality: The Seed of Social Action
The study of our mind, the psychological structure, does not require isolation, but it does require attentiveness. The movement of the...
Moving in Wholeness
A new challenge awaits us at the beginning of the twenty-first century: to go beyond fragmentation, to go beyond the incompatible sets of...
Inner Social Responsibility
Viewing the world as a large pieced-together collection of fragments, some of which are labeled as friend and others as foe, begins...
A Human Society
A self-centered person can never look at anything in life, a self-centered person cannot get related with other human beings. He is so...
Theory and Practice
If we look at what theory is, it’s essentially an abstraction, or representation, of direct experience. It’s a way for us to...
The Sun Is The Perfect Example
The sun is the perfect example of acting without desire. When the sun rises does the idea enter its mind to say, 'I shall banish the...
Action Without Desire Of Outcomes
To protect self-interest individuals exploit others, nations go to war, and businesses undercut each other, because people in those...
Moved by Love
I am a man who belongs to another world than this, one that may seem very strange. For I claim that I am moved by love, that I feel it...
A Servant Leader
To progress, society doesn't need 'leaders' anymore. This doesn't mean that we won't have great men amidst us. I think...
Every Piece is Meant For You
Ever since I was young I enjoyed solving puzzles and having the pleasure to see the bigger picture afterwards. But even after all that, I...
I Am Me
I am me. In all the world, there is no one exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly...
Attachment With Detachment
Attachment is the source of all our pleasures now. We are attached to our friends, to our relatives; we are attached to our...
Work Like a Master
The whole gist of this teaching is that you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work....
Good and Evil
Good and evil are inextricably combined, and one cannot be had without the other. The sum total of the enregy in this universe is like...
Sacred Vs. Survival Language
Avidya is the defining of a self which is not the self; with happiness in what is actually suffering; with purity in what is really...