The Secret to Understanding Zen Meditation
November 20, 2007
The key to understanding Zen Buddhism is to understand the phrase “I don’t know.” In this phrase is hidden the secrets of Zen and Zen Meditation. At first glance this may seem counter intuitive or just a play on words, but I assure you that is not the case. This is really the essence of Zen and once you grasp what is being implied here, all the Zen teachings will start to make sense. The problem, according to Zen is not “not-knowing”, it is in fact knowing too much. What needs to be qualified here is the type of knowledge that is being referred... Read more »
Dalai Lama’s Oracle Hits The US
August 18, 2007
This is not about religion, this is not about cultism, and this is something entirely different. While you have heard of the Dalai Lama, you might not know that he has a “spiritual advisor” known as the Oracle. The Oracle is touring the US and it’s the first time the Oracle has come down from the Himalayas — at the behest of the Dalai Lama (something that Richard Gere has been wishing to happen for eons) to bring the words of wisdom, peace and love to the people of the world and specifically the US. Who Is the Oracle? The Venerable Thupten Ngodup , or “kutenla″ as he is called, is a Buddhist monk/healer and a medium. He is known as the medium of the State Oracle of Tibet. During special... Read more »
Meditation: The Art Of Self-Recovery
August 17, 2007
What you focus on determines your reality because your mind becomes active in acquiring and bringing into your reality the things that you focus on. You bring into your experience what you focus on. If you focus on lack, limitation, negativity, and scarcity, then that is what you bring into your experience. If you focus on abundance, expansion, positive things, and plenty, then that is what you bring into your experience. A moment of introspection will make this obvious. Why, then, if it is that easy to switch our reality, from one of suffering to one of joyful experience, do we persist in injuring ourselves? It is because we are not in charge of our minds. Rather our... Read more »
An Evening With An Enlightened Man
August 17, 2007
It was a quiet night by the Ganges as the young man sat on the steps and watched the sun set over the holy waters. Despite the beauty of the scene, he did not appreciate it. The lilting cadence of the bathers chatting loudly seemed far away, and even their playful splashing of each other did not amuse him. Someone started chanting a bhajan about Krishna and the gopis and others soon joined him until their happy voices slapped on the shores of the river and made the mosquitoes pause in midair. This only irritated the young man more. He was worried about his job how little it paid... Read more »
The Gift
August 17, 2007
Give yourself the gift of laughter, song, and love. Touch your life with your own magnificence. You are the ocean. Life itself. You are everything that you were meant to be. Touch your own soul become whole once more. Everything is the way it is. Let yourself see it as it is. Free yourself from the delusions of despair. You cannot save the world from it’s nightmares, but you can save yourself; and in doing this, you will salvage the world; for it will see your clear light and hear your clear call. What if you don’t have everything you need right now? Who you are is pure gold. You... Read more »
Love Is The Answer To Happiness
August 17, 2007
The thesis of this discourse is this: love is the answer to happiness. Love, the most powerful force in creation, is also the most misunderstood. It is misunderstood because of the context with which it arises: that of relationship. All relationships imply love, either an offering of it or a withdrawal of it. Thus, our understanding of love is conditioned by varying degrees of attachment and aversion. And because of this, there is an element of self-protection that is projected outwardly and becomes control. Thus, our understanding of love is completely contaminated... Read more »
For Your Eyes Only
August 17, 2007
Imagine what would happen if you made a decision not to be unhappy anymore. Yes, that’s right. Give it up. Quit being unhappy. Sure there are plenty of reasons to be unhappy–the unpaid bills, the ache in your shoulders, and your difficult parents, spouse, children, friends, and so on. In fact, if you really focus on it, the earth has always been a miserable place and if you read the newspapers it appears to be falling apart at the seams even faster than ever before. There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy. The sensory evidence just keeps piling up. On the other hand, there is only one reason... Read more »
How To Be Safe, Well, And Happy
August 17, 2007
The only way to live a happy, prosperous, successful and fulfilling life is to learn to express the love that is within you. When you meet yourself, others, and the life that you express with love, then you will change everything for the better. Who you are is an incarnation of love because what you seek, above all else, is to be well, safe, and happy; and that is what love provides, an assurance and promise of well-being. The absence of love, the varying degrees of hatred, create conditions of distress that destroy... Read more »
Help Always, Hurt Never
August 17, 2007
Revenge, the desire to hurt others who have hurt us, only bears bitter fruit. It hurts those whom we have inflicted our wrath upon. And it hurts us, because no single act in the universe goes unrewarded. From that singular act, our own consciousness is wounded by the expression of our animalism. Nations pride themselves on the swiftness of their retribution but inevitably collapse in on themselves because the seeds of discontent that they sow, hurts all of life. Rome, the greatest civilization that the world had ever known, built on the finest arts and sciences known to the ancient world, the epitome of legal and architectural order, collapsed from within, destroyed... Read more »
Why You Are The Light Of The World
August 17, 2007
You are awesome. You are the light of the world. And in this brief essay, I will prove it to you. Your body is a superb machine whose functional details keep scientists in a state of awe and wonder. They estimate that your body has enough power to run a whole city for a week. Your mind is a computer that has billions of interconnected neurons. You may have enough raw brain power to run a galaxy. Yet there is something even more amazing about you. You are self-aware, the creator of yourself, and your own creation. You are more than a person, much more. You are a consciousness whose only limit is your own self-belief and imagination. And,... Read more »
