It was a perfect Australian day, clear skies with soft white fluffy clouds. The air was balmy, and we felt good despite the fact that Customs had impounded our Native drums as possible terrorist weapons. Evidently someone determined that raw hides could be used to smuggle in anthrax. We tried to …
Buddha said that attachment is the cause of all suffering. Whenever we are attached to anything, we suffer. Hence, to let go of attachment is to end suffering. But what does this mean? Why should being attached to something cause suffering? Isn’t it a good and proper thing to be attached to our family, our …
“Well schooled people are irrelevant. They can sell film and razor blades, push paper and talk on telephones, or sit mindlessly before a flickering computer terminal, but as human beings they are useless. ”
— John Gatto
Any person or civilization …
We meet life, with all of its complex relationships, through what we know. Each daily event, with its dozens of unsuspected twists and turns, challenges us to come up with our best answers. Once our most suitable answer is at hand, we launch it and ourselves into action and watch to see what happens. With …
Choice is a gateway to the possible, not only at cross-roads and junctures on your path, but in each moment, giving access to the limitless palate with which you paint your life.
You can choose a new action, thought, feeling, or behaviour at any time, and birth an entirely new reality as a result. This …
2012 is your New Beginning – not just the exiting, starting over – resolutions, standard type of New Year.
THIS New Beginning is the most special, most amazing, most fun, most exciting, most fulfilling, and most demanding of ALL the new beginnings you have experienced in your life, no matter what age group you are in.
Over …
If you ever feel like you are caught in a trap with your life, you’re not far off from the truth! The hamster in the wheel with a big juicy carrot in front of it is a prime example of how most are living these days. That’s not a judgement or put down, only …
Have you ever had appear in your mind the image of someone who hurt you, or run a whole mental movie about something that didn’t work out, so that in recalling the event you actually relived the sense of loss? How does such a painful image seem to stay in the mind, especially given the …
A couple of months ago, my son and I were staying at my parents’ house. I was going to a retreat that weekend with my spiritual school. While I was gone, my son and parents would play together.
The night beforehand, my father knew that the following day they would be going to a fun amusement …
“I can’t believe my eyes”, people say…
Well, they shouldn’t either. Because you’re eyes don’t actually see.
They’re merely lenses that pass on information to the visual cortex in the brain. And only there do you see.
So you actually see with your brain, not with your eyes. “I saw …