Experiential Wisdom
"What is wisdom? Wisdom means right understanding. Knowledge of superficial, apparent truth is not true wisdom. In order...
Giving Simply to Give
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their...
Experience over Rationalization
Everywhere we go, it seems that we are surrounded by buzzwords like spirituality, new-age, attachment, meditation, love, peace, and...
Happiness Is A Journey
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the...
Thank You
We started this meditation activity over a year ago, a little before Thanksgiving. Some have come once, some have come a few times,...
Action without result
An anonymous reader of these reminders was inspired to write the following after reading some essays by Paramhansa Yogananda: Even if I...
Pursuit of money
Below are excerpts from the Associated Press article, "Deion Sanders Reflects on Troubled Past", published on Sep 27, 1998:...
On Humility
"Humility is a trait that is somewhat of an enigma. For to be humble you must not know you are humble since if you know you are humble...
What are we busy with?
What are we busy with? We are always occupied with activities in our daily life, but what answer do we come up with when we ask...
On Meditation
"During meditation, various feelings and thoughts may arise. If you don't practice mindfulness of breath, these thoughts will soon...
Effortless Action
What is effort? Is it when we try to do something or is it when we have to fight with ourselves? If there were no internal...
Why Meditate? A Conversation
During a random conversation via email, one of my friends (who is a regular meditator and prefers to stay anonymous) responded with...