I just finished reading Krishnamurti’s Notebook, a personal journal kept by the spiritual teacher, Jiddu Krishnamurti. It is filled with many profound insights and teachings and I would highly recommend anyone read it. I found some excerpts that I would like to share: Color was god and that god was everywhere. And as you watched […]
I have been trying to encapsulate into words my interpretation on the nature of reality. This of course, is ultimately beyond words and form and this is not completely meshed out, but this is the explanation I have so far. At the very essence of everything exists what I will call the ultimate ground of […]
The mind is never going to let you do less. It’s always going to tell you that there is still something else to do, something else you must acquire, some piece of information that you must have in order to be happy, fulfilled, something you need in order to make it as a human being. […]
A rampant situation in our world is that of ceasing to see another human being as an equal, as a fellow human focusing on their differences rather than our similarities. In so doing, we see them as “other”. In our reality, we turn this person into an enemy. They practice a different religion, eat different food, see the […]
Consciousness of the physical body is a powerful gateway to awakening. One of the triggers that all of us as human beings have is running towards that which causes us joy and running away from that which will cause us pain. Everyone wants to avoid illness and suffering at all costs. However, suffering is unavoidable. […]
To discover your limitations is the same as to discover your limitlessness. To discover your shadow is the same as to discover your light. To discover your humaness is to discover your Buddhaness. To discover you’re finite is to discover you’re infinite. -Anam Thubten When we honestly ask ourselves the question, “Who am I?” We […]
Yesterday I was listening to a talk given by the teacher James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy. In this talk, James recounted his meeting of a 13 year old girl who claimed to have conceived of an idea for an invention that would eliminate war. She called this invention the “Perspective Helmet” and it would […]
Everywhere there was silence; the hills were motionless, the trees were still and the river-beds empty; the birds had found shelter for the night and everything was still, even the village dogs. It had rained and the clouds were motionless. Silence grew and became intense, wider and deeper. What was outside was now outside; the brain which had listened to the silence […]
In the Buddha’s first Noble Truth he taught that everything in the world is or can lead to suffering. The spiritual path and enlightenment are often misconstrued as making everything okay. That suffering will end. That all of the sudden, a ray of sunlight will come into our lives and ameliorate all that we ever […]
This persistent and rapacious belief in a separate, abiding, self-subsisting “I” and its illusory incompleteness, compounded with the story placed upon story after story in our mind stream that attempts to perpetuate this lie of the “I” is all our suffering is ever based upon. Contrarily, we are always intrinsically whole and complete because our […]