The Main Thing
The sage Nasrudin stood on the bow of a ferryboat next to a pompous professor. "Have you ever studied astronomy?" asked the professor....
The Shenpa Syndrome
Someone criticizes you. They criticize your work or your appearance or your child. At moments like that, what is it you feel? It has a...
Divine Darkness
The word Shiva literally means that which is not. That which is, is existence; that which is, is creation. That which is not is Shiva....
Art of Awareness
Thoreau wrote: "Only that day dawns to which we are awake." The art of awareness is the art of learning how to wake up to the eternal...
Meaning of Love
[Helen Keller tells how, as a deaf and dumb child, she learned the meaning of love from her teacher, Anne Sullivan.] I remember the...
Our Greatest Mistake
Our greatest mistake, in my opinion is to think that human spirituality is somehow already understood and established. If history tells...
I-ness At Arm's Length
The activities you are engaged in of serving the nation and the people are good. But to acquire the full bliss through "karma yoga",...
Beauty of True Simplicity
The clutter of our lives binds us to the precious simplicity that surrounds us and within us. Too of ten we become possessed and...
Going Into the Unknown
Going into the unknown world and confronting it without a penny in our pockets had meant that differences between rich and poor,...
Natural Unfolding
I believe that spiritual practice unfolds most smoothly when we find how to accord ourselves with nature. A useful metaphor for this is...
Waves in the Mind
When you are practicing meditation, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your mind, let it...
Do What You Can
I'm basically a simple person. The way I look at the issues you're talking about, which are issues of the globe, is to bring it back to...