Is it enough to see the darkness and then turn away completely and just spread Love and Joy? Two critical questions that came in related to a recent Facebook post are: "Is it enough to see the darkness and then turn away completely, offering it no fear, no anger, and so on.? Because many [...]
FIn this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Aaravindha about the events described in Immortal Self—after a grueling expedition into the interior of the Himalayan Mountains, Aaravindha found himself in the secluded valley home of a deeply secretive spiritual lineage. Aaravindha describes his tutelage under the valley's long-lived Amartya monks and why he [...]
HERE ARE 5 STEPS TO A NEW LIFE For a long time scientists believed your emotions are already a part of your cerebral make-up at birth, that they're already intrinsic to your brain’s structure, — but they aren’t! They’re constructed through your continuing responses to life experiences. You have more authority over [...]
Most of our contemporary sciences are finally catching up to what the ancient Eastern mystics have been declaring from time immemorial. Everything begins in silence, exists only for a brief time, and then slips back into the silent source from which it came. What appears to be real essentially hides what truly is real. [...]
The hearth fire was particularly friendly and comforting this morning, crackling with occasional sparks that sent micro-meteors of light shooting across its burnt brick backdrop. I was sitting in silent leisure while contemplating the rippled textures of the sea as the rain fell in softly layered veils across a slate cast sky. My eyes [...]
For this world, and for yourself, learn to listen from silence, For that delicate whisper that reveals your true reason for being In 1912, the environmental philosopher John Muir wrote, “When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with the stars, all [...]
In being authentic, you become an unassuming presence, like a wildflower simply allowing life’s splendor to arise glowingly, without applying any defensiveness or effort to display your intrinsic beauty. The flower’s loveliness rests in its faithful innocence. In this humble unpretentious way of being, life becomes so very easy; you merely yield receptively to the [...]