There is only one place where the mind cannot exist: In This Moment. I recently came upon the blog of Nicole Schwab. She wrote a post titled, Are We Losing Our Grip On Reality? She concludes with the following: So that we may come back to our center. So that we may go back up-stream – as […]
Siddhartha Gautama spent years in the forest. He tortured his body. Deprived himself of food. Drank his own urine. And sat in the rain. What did this get him? Emaciated and on the verge of death. It was only when he realized that this had gotten him nowhere that he found the true road to […]
I’m not here to provide you with a new “remedy” for depression. You’ve heard plenty of those. You’ve heard from the psychologists and the psychiatrists. You’ve read about the latest treatments that “science” has uncovered. And the numbered list posts which, quite frankly, are an insult to the glorious creation that is a human being. […]
I am here to tell you The Truth. And this truth is not meant for “the world.” For “the world” is nothing more than background noise meant for the Insincere. Now apparently everyone “meditates.” There are now meditation groups. And meditation billboards. And “scientific” articles about meditation espousing the “health benefits” of meditation. And fingernails-on-a-chalkboard exchanges […]
We have been given an opportunity to live. We have been given a bolus of time. We have been given a Life. I don’t know why it’s been given to us. I don’t know where it comes from. I don’t know who the “giver” is. All I know is what I know. And that is […]
The reason that man seeks a “meaning” and a “purpose” to life is because he is desperate to run away from LIVING by any and all means necessary. Let us deal with what we have right in front of us, shall we? Let us examine that which has stared us in the face since the […]
Many like to discuss morning “routines.” But morning routines are more a chronology of specific events, than a true absorption of any kind. Some exercise then eat breakfast. Some “meditate” and go for a walk. Some eat breakfast, then go for a walk. Some read the newspaper, then go straight to work. I don’t see […]
Dear Friend: I will begin by stating that I have nothing to teach you. I have no lesson to give. Or message to impart. I have divorced myself from any hope that you will enjoy what I have to say. I wish only to speak to you as a sincere human being. For as […]
Near the beginning of this year I was consulting with an actor in a hotel near the base of the Hollywood Hills. It has become almost customary for clients to ask me how I can help them “make their lives better.” And this was what this actor asked me as well. The journey that […]
I will tell you a story of an old Indian ascetic, a Sadhu, who lived in Gangotri. Gangotri is a town in the Indian Himalayas. It is the source of the great river Ganges. This sadhu used to collect rocks by the river. He would bathe in its cold waters. He would sit in meditation for hours […]