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War

11 Oct 2015

War erupts when one goes into another kingdom to erect his own, when the self seeks to claim independence from the Self. All kingdoms are within, so are all wars.

What Do We Really Look Like? Well, we may think we look like this: But really, we always look like this: Don’t be too concerned with what you look like. Your face is not what you look like; it is what others look like when they’re looking at you. You on the other hand, you … More Your World is Your Face

Leonard Bernstein on Peace, Brotherhood, and Beethoven’s 9th

3 May 2015

Leonard Bernstein conducting Ludwig van Beethoven’s 9th Symphony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IInG5nY_wrU

The Fountain of Now

31 Mar 2015

The experience of the moment is the same in all of us; it is our own psychological colorings that make it appear as something personal, attached to a definite past and a possible future. When we disentangle the moment from the ideas of past and future, when we see it afresh, as if we had … More The Fountain of Now

Samsara is Nirvana

31 Mar 2015

I am not of this world. If I were how could I know the world as world? How could I know worldliness if I were not that upon which worldliness is superimposed? Beliefs bind us, and that keeps us sane. Human finitude can’t handle the divine infinitude. Man must die and rise as Atman in … More Samsara is Nirvana

The Mind Boner

29 Mar 2015

The mind has but one task, to project outwardly what rises within it. Mind throws the bone for us to bring it back. When we bring it back the mind will throw it again, and again, as this is its nature. So far as we look at the mind as our master we will be … More The Mind Boner

3 Mar 2015

“In the heart of the knower of truth, there is neither desire for pleasure nor desire for liberation. Neither liberation, nor wealth, etc., is of any use to him who is established in the realization that ‘I am not, nor is the world.’” Vasistha’s Yoga