"A highly individualized spiritual belief system composed of selected elements drawn from various doctrines." — Judie Sigdel
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. -- Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby If you're one of my loyal readers, you may have noticed that I haven't posted for a while. I got the flu five weeks ago and it turned my world upside down. For several days, I was certain …
In my last post, 2017 Post-Mortem Review, I reflected on what I accomplished -- and what I didn't -- from my 2017 vision board. Today, I'd like to encourage my readers to revisit their 2017 and 2018 intentions again based on the Dalai Lama's refreshingly simple and direct guidelines. During his 2018 New Year's day …
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. -- Neil Gaiman Last year, instead of …
One of my dreams is to go to graduate school to study comparative religions. (Actually, the dream entails attending Harvard Divinity School, which probably won't happen in this lifetime unless I win the lottery.) I love studying different religions and incorporating elements that appeal to me into my belief system. I'm sorry to say that …
Rahul Yuvi reached out and asked me to reblog this post. He is a fellow seeker and meditator and, as such, has some interesting thoughts and insights about meditation.
I hope that you enjoy this post and are able to incorporate some of his ideas into your meditation practice if you have one. And if you don’t, may this post inspire you to start one.
Preface :
While on the spiritual journey , our mind or brain (or whatever you may like to call it) keeps on raising various questions or doubts . For those , who despite all these distractions & play of mind continue to be on the path of Dhyan , most (if not all ) of these doubts get cleared by themselves in due course . However , unfortunately , for many,these doubts,these confusions & misconceptions raised by mind end up being the reasons to deviate or to completely turn back from Meditation .
While I am not a Guru and certainly not an enlightened being , but luckily , the nature or the divine has helped me to continuously be on this auspicious path of seeking thyself for quiet sometime now. The very purpose of writing this blog is to answer, based on my own experience , some of the …
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I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by …
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Nobody knows whether there is reincarnation, and equally one does not know that there is none. Buddha himself was convinced of reincarnation, but he himself on being asked twice by his disciples about it, left it quite open whether there is a continuity of your personality or not. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 103-104.| …
