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, …
What is the Ego? What is the ego? Is it something real? You need to understand the nature of the ego. Your thoughts, your mind and your body are real. Ego is not real; it is a false attachment to the …
Mind Vs Body: Language is obviously a creation of the mind. Every time you hear yourself talking, know that it is an experience of the mind. In fact, one of the easiest ways to identify experiences of the mind is …
Balanced Life: No matter what you achieve, there will always be someone who will be one step ahead of you. This is especially true today, when things are changing so quickly. In just a few years, people are accomplishing what …
Controlling Your Chatterbox Mind: My mind is a constant chatter of thoughts. I mean, I can’t stop the mind, and when I sit to meditate, my mind goes on overdrive; there’s a song playing in the background, someone is there …
What is the mind? The Sanskrit word “man” pronounced “mun”, means “mind”. This is the root word from which the English words “man” and “woman” are derived. The ancient Hindus believed that mind is a vast, limitless and transcendental phenomenon. …
What is a Thought? You could have very well asked, “What is life?” or, “What is the universe?” A thought is not an isolated phenomenon – it is not some thing. A thought is not an object that you can …
Hidden Secrets of Success: We all know that success is not just a matter of fluke and luck. It takes consistent effort and perseverance in order to succeed at anything. More than anything else, success is a science. It is …
The Undivided Truth: Life makes sense only when looked at in totality. In the hopes of understanding a flower, we can pluck it from the plant, chop its petals, put it under a microscope and try to analyze it. This …
You are the Master: Up until now, everything you’ve been doing in your life has been happening through your mind. Even when you wanted to look at things from your heart, love or admire things just for what they are, …
Controlling Your Noisy Mind: When you say, “My mind is noisy,” you are right! You need to understand that the mind is nothing but noise. If you were to take away all the noise, all the distractions, and all the …
Why do we suffer? Suffering is not an act, it is an experience. Suffering can have no meaning without the participation of the self. Suffering cannot happen without the involvement of the self. If one goes deep and looks at …
Art of watching your breath: Before watching something, you need to know what you are trying to watch. What exactly is the breath? If you have not precisely defined what a breath is, you will not be able to watch …
Accepting Pain & Pleasure: As impossible it is to eradicate pain and suffering from your life fully, that impossible it is to be happy all the time. Happiness is like a tickling sensation of the mind – It is good …
What is Happiness? There is a deep connection between the nature of the mind and the nature of happiness. Mind, by definition, oscillates between the past and the future, so where is the experience of happiness? We know that happiness …
The Present Moment: In the most simplistic sense, life is too short to be fighting with and changing every behavior of ours. The choice we have is simple: Either we can make this very moment a celebration by accepting ourselves …
State of Mind: At any given point in time you are either in a positive or a negative state of mind. When you observe this, you will realize that you are off balance throughout the day, because you can’t remain in …
Change is Real: Observe what is happening around you. Try not to bring in all 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, …