Watching the movie of your life: Meditation is a little uncomfortable. It’s not like watching a movie; you can watch an engaging two-hour movie easily, but to sit and watch your thoughts for two hours is extraordinarily difficult, because it’s …
How to make time for meditation? Make a simple list of three or four things that you want to say no to. It could be saying no to sleeping eight hours a day. If you’re able to take down your sleep from eight hours …
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend: Robert James Waller Robert James Waller, after his spectacular runaway success of Bridges of Madison County,, gives us yet another memorable and beautiful love story of Michael Tillman and Jellie Braden. Slow Waltz in Cedar …
Focus in a Chaotic World: What you want to do vs. what you can do When you pick up any new habit, be it meditation or something that you’re interested in like reading or a new hobby, you will quickly realize that there is …
Watching Your Breath: Watching the disturbance of the mind is the whole purpose of meditation. Relaxation will eventually happen as a natural consequence of observing and accepting your thoughts, but this won’t happen in a day or two – it …
Knowledge and Information: Separate your information from knowledge. Information is just a tool; it is not something you gather and keep for yourself. Clinging to information is like clinging to the boat even after you have crossed the river. Just …
Art of Self Sufficiency: Many years ago I was at a job interview and the interviewer asked the question, “What are your goals?” By that point in my life I was getting weary of the 8-hour-per day grind, listening to …
The Help: Slavery and human injustice has taken many forms throughout human history. People have been subjugated, humiliated and tortured for various political, economic and social reasons. The Help is a very heart touching story of black women who were …
Being Alive: Accepting all emotions of life and everything life can throw at you with equal-mindedness is the whole essence of being alive in the moment. Being alive in the moment is not to choose between happiness and sadness. If there …
Path to Self Perfection: The path of Self perfection is filled with effort and disturbance. If there is no effort and disturbance, know that you are not progressing. There is no self perfection without effort. To become good at anything, …
Blinded by Thoughts: In a way, finding ourselves is going beyond the most basic assumptions that we have made about life. That requires a very strong will that requires consistent effort, consistent learning, and consistent understanding. We would not be …
A thoroughly candid and humorous account of a life of a young boy and the world he experienced. Sting is a beautiful memoir of a young boy written with intimate and delicate details of daily living. What is a young …
Finding Yourself: Isn’t it kind of a revelation to know, “Wow, there is something real?” We don’t know it, because we’re distracting ourselves with so many other things. We can all get something from the beautiful passage … “You cannot …
Off Switch of the Mind: Start with total alertness. Sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Tell yourself, “I want to be alert and active throughout this process. My aim is not to relax, but to observe the disturbance.” …
Beginning Meditation: To observe the experiences of the body, pick a point on your body and simply focus on it. Don’t bother about meditation. When meditation has to happen, it will happen by itself. Just keep focusing. Every time your …
Influence of Thoughts: Thoughts are not just images that run in your mind. The very functioning mechanism of your mind is a thought. That is why it is difficult to understand just how far the influence of thoughts extends into …
Dealing with uncertainty: Life is another name for change and uncertainty. We can try and control our fate but eventually life always reminds us about how little control we really have. Everything that is happening around us in recent times …
Why search for Spiritual Freedom: You need to strive for Awakening because your thirst is real, and not because there is someone trying to persuade you to move toward it. Every day when you get out of bed, even without …
Embracing the Change: Observe what is happening around you. Don’t bring in your accumulated knowledge, ideas and concepts. Just observe, as if you are looking at things for the first time. When you look at the tree, the sky, the …
Why pursue a spiritual life: External comforts such as a house, a car, and a job, can ease the constant struggles of life, in terms of survival and basic necessities. You can satisfy your physical body, to a certain extent, …