Pointers to Non-duality, No-otherness
Why Is Silence So Special?
Why do authentic teachings emphasize silence? What is so special about silence? Find out in this potent pointer.
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The Importance of Stilling Attention
What is the “I” that you think you are? What is it’s nature? Why is stilling attention important in this realization?
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How To Understand Life?
What is life? How to understand life? Check out this pointer to knowing life.
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The Truth Beyond Names and Forms
What exists before names and forms? That Truth is here, now. This poem, a potent pointer, shows the way to the direct experience of that Truth.
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Love is a killer. Love is a healer. What’s behind this seeming paradox? A short poem points to the way.
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The Miracle of Non-doing
Dancing, singing, playing, all activities you are involved in has you the doer behind it. Do you know about the miracle of non-doing? Find out in this post.
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Pure Mind and Reality
What is pure mind? What is its connection with Reality? How to purify mind? Follow this pointer to your direct experience.
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Direct Pointer to Truth
Truth cannot be neatly packed into concepts. This is why the great awakened Masters pointed to the Truth, for you to follow in your direct experience. Here’s a direct pointer to the Truth.
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The Flow of What Is
What is, is as it is. What is your reaction to what is? Resistance or acceptance. This little poem is a pointer to flowing with what is.
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Mind Rooted in the Heart
The monkey-mind is a definite problem in today’s fast paced world. Not only it creates many of the problems we experience in life, like fears, worries, anger, anxieties, stress, and so much more, monkey-mind is also disconnected from the heart. Find out about the power of the mind rooted in the heart in this post.
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There is no tree. Just treeing.
Is a tree a static object? Is it truly the same thing whenever you see it? The “tree” as a static object is an illusion created by the mind. This understanding has profound implications about life itself. Find more in this potent pointer to what is.
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What Came First? The World or You?
What came first, the world, or you? Seems like an absurd question to start with. But it isn’t. Find out the profound pointer that lies in wait.
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Signposts to the real YOU
There is the “I” that you think you are. And then there’s the ever-present true self. You can’t realize your true self by reading about it, anymore than you can run a marathon by watching a video of one. You have to realize the true self in direct experience. For that, the signposts to the…
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Is it a Concept or a Pointer?
Concepts and knowledge are fodder for the mind, as are higher level ideas like philosophy or theology. They may be interesting, but cannot help you realize the Truth, Reality. That said, authentic works often contain mysterious statements that are not meant to be seen as concepts, but are pointers to the Truth, Reality, to follow…
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Becoming or Being?
In the urge to become something other than what we now are, we are locked into a mode of doing to achieve this change. But what you seek is already the Reality in the realm of the heart. Let this poem point you to the way.
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The Secret of Stillness
What is stillness? What is the connection between stillness, “I,” and God?
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The Journey Home
The Journey Home – a pointer to your essence. Follow the thread of silence to the real YOU.
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A New Year’s Blessing – 2024
Inner peace is a key to life’s mysteries. It is ever-present in the silence within you. The source of this great inner power is your own real nature. May the blessing of peace be with you. A short new year’s blessing for 2024.
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A New Year Blessing – 2023
A heartfelt new year blessing, and a pointer to the real YOU.
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Introducing Enlightenment
Introducing Enlightenment – free eBook – visual introduction to Enlightenment, presenting a distillation of wisdom from authentic scriptures and awakened Masters.
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Whispers of Perfection
Your heart whispers about perfection. Peace that isn’t fickle. Love that isn’t bounded. Happiness that isn’t attached to a reason. You cannot seem to find it in this world, yet you keep trying. This poem points you to the source of perfection.
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A New Year Wish For You
A tumultuous 2020 is drawing to a close. Here is my new year wish for you for all of 2021.
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The Eternal Fire
At the core of what you want from life is freedom. Freedom from limitation. Freedom from the ups and downs. This short poem points you to the source of that freedom.
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The Essence Of It All
All your experiences of yourself and the world are characterized by change. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. Yet, there is something in you that is unchanging. This poem points the way.
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How Can I Understand Awakening?
Can you really understand what Awakening is? This short poem points to the Truth.
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Unleashing the Ingredients of Success in Life – The Peace Practice
One meditation practice to bring relief from worries, anxiety and stress, plus unleash the success ingredients of life from creativity, to wisdom and strength. Is this possible? Find out about the Peace Practice, cultivating the art of resting attention in silence.
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The Sacred Silence
There’s something more eloquent than words masterfully strung together. This short poem points you to the the profundity of silence.
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Being Free of Worries – The Peace Practice
Who among us doesn’t worry? Quite unpleasant isn’t it? How to be free of worries? This post points the way.
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The Power of Small
In life and in spiritual practice, we often aim for very big achievements. We overlook the power of small things. Let this short post remind you of the power of small.
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Why Surrender?
We hear about the importance of surrender in spiritual practice. What is the benefit of surrender? How to surrender? This short post points to answers.
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The Secret of Rested Attention
Scattered attention is what powers the 80,000 thoughts per day along with attendant feelings of ups and downs in life. This poem points to the power of rested attention.
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Celebrating Union
If you are a seeker, you no doubt want to experience that real freedom, that blessed Union. This short poem points the way to Union.
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Be Like Rama Paati – A True Story Of Complete Surrender
Can you imagine having an awakened one in your own family? I recently came to know of such an amazing person in my extended family. Come and hear the story of Rama Paati, a true story of complete devotional surrender.
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Eternally Free
Are you doomed to live a life of desires, expectations, striving, seeking, craving, yearning, and resisting? This short poem points to your original nature, the eternally free.
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The Bounty of Real Surrender
When the experience of life is difficult as it can sometimes be, there is a great resource within you that you can connect to, that unleashes Grace. Come into this meditation with an open heart, and experience the real bounty of surrender.
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Experiencing God
God, the concept, doesn’t lend itself to experience. How to experience God, the Reality? Find in this short poem.
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The Mystic Melody
There is a melody in you that can soothe, heal and shower peace on you. Find out more about this mystic melody in this short poem.
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The Attitude of Gratitude
Can gratitude be your attitude? This short poem reveals the great benefits of an attitude of gratitude.
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Boundless Being
Beliefs can hold you captive. Beliefs can set you free. But what is there before beliefs and believing? Find through this short poem.
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The Trouble with Expectations
We all anticipate certain outcomes, expect certain things from people or events in life. Expectations are troublesome. Find in this short poem, what expectations are keeping you from.
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What really remains?
Before your anger and fear, before your lack and suffering, before your thinking and limitations, before your vaunted self-identity, what is there? This short meditation invites your direct inquiry into your original nature.
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Elevate Your Consciousness? Say what!
“You need to elevate your consciousness!” You’ve no doubt heard some such advice in new age spiritual circles. Is this even sensible? Come and find the Truth in this short poem.
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Being Compassionate Towards Yourself
What are the ways in which you are compassionate towards yourself? Not sure how to go about this? This post provides practical tips as well as profound pointers about being compassionate towards yourself.
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Seeking God
You wish to know God. You pray to God. You seek God. But what is God? How will you seek God? This poem shows the way.
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Is There Life Beyond Individuality?
Your experience of life is rooted in the individual, the separate person that you think you are. But there is more to life than your experience as an individual. Come find through a wonderful story plus a short poem.
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Life Is Happening For You
You see life as something happening to you. Therefore sometimes you enjoy life, and at other times you complain about life, or question life itself. But life is not happening to you, it is happening for you. Find out the profound secret of life’s experiences in this post.
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Release Your Beauty
When you feel stressed or anxious, do you try to find a way to be calm? That is good, but don’t be satisfied with this. This poem revels the profound reality that you are missing, if you are just an occasional visitor to the serenity within.
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A Conversation with Silence
You have existential questions. Silence has the answers. See this short poem, a conversation with Silence.
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Are You Weak? Is Struggle Your Destiny?
You often feel weak. You feel that you have flaws. You assume that life can be a struggle. Is this real? Is this your destiny?
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The Profundity of Emptiness
In spiritual teachings, we come across the topic of Emptiness. While entirely unexciting to the normal person, it is also a source of confusion to the spiritual practitioner. See this short poem which reveals the profundity of Emptiness.
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Surrender vs Giving Up
Many people think that surrender is a sign of weakness, that it implies giving up. The surrender we speak of here, cannot be more different than this misunderstanding. This little poem reveals the essential difference between surrender (in spiritual terms) and giving up.
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When You Lose A Dear One …
When you lose a dear one, there is great sadness, there is a great big hole inside of you. But have you recognized their parting gift to you? This poem reveals the great reflections that your departed dear one has left for you.
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What is Peace?
What is peace? Is it something you can attain after achieving something or another in your life? Find in this short poem, the profound nature of peace.
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Potato or Egg?
The world is boiling. Are you a potato or an egg in this boiling world? Find out in this short post.
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What To Do When You Are Unhappy?
You feel unhappy and it is bogging you down. What can you do? This poem points the way to a potent solution.
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Know Yourself
You have fears. There is a precious gift hidden inside fear – the opportunity to explore the nature of the one who has the fear. Find more in this short post, and know who you really are.
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Transmuting Anger into Impactful Change
Experiencing injustice in so many forms, you feel anger. Often that anger is laced with sadness and hopelessness, even though what you want is real positive change. Find out in this post, how to transform potent anger into positive change.
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Why is the Experience of Peace Fleeting?
You may experience moments of peace, but find that soon enough it is lost. Why is the experience of peace fleeting? Come find in this short post.
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Be Here Now
Be present, you are told. Be here, now, you are told. But how to be here, now when life pulls you in challenging ways? This poem points the way to be here, now.
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The Sacred Silence
When you feel anger, your mind is fixated on the unresolved past, and when you feel fear, your mind is stuck in an uncertain future. What is overlooked is silence. This short poem shows the way out.
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Be Careful What You Let In
Is your life weighed down by comparison and jealousy? Are you a prisoner to your judgments and prejudices? It is all a function of what you let into your mind-body. This short poem reveals how to restore your body-mind to its pristine original form.
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Unusual Gratitude
You may feel grateful for what you have or what you experience. This is good. But can you feel grateful for whatever is here, now, as it is? This poem on unusual gratitude points the way.
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Just What Is
What is here? What is really here? Is it a world with ever-changing experiences that you experience through a limited form? This poem points the way to Reality.
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Religion vs Reality
What is the difference between Religion and Reality? Read this short post and find the way to the experience of Reality, One, without a second.
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Who Are You?
You say “my body” and “my mind”. Who is the “you” whose body and mind this is? This short poem kicks off the sacred inquiry into your true self, your original nature.
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Is Cultivation of Peace an Escape from Life?
In a chaotic world, if we cultivate inner peace, are we escaping from the world’s realities and needs? Is this a selfish thing to do? Come and see through this short poem, the implication of the real cultivation of peace.
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The Cure for Monkey Mind
In the modern world, we are inundated with thoughts, as many as 35 thoughts a minute. This is monkey mind. What is its cure? This short poem reveals the secret to curing the monkey mind.
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Real Prayer
Each tradition has its modes of prayer. There are so many rituals and trappings that people get lost in. What is real prayer? Find out the secrets of prayer in this short poem.
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You want Grace, but are you pushing it away?
We all want Grace in our lives, to bring ease, peace, wellness, and more. But what is Grace? And are you pushing Grace away from your life inadvertently?
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Your Specialness *
Even as everything about your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, expectations, desires and more change, and even as everything about the world you experience appears to change all the time, there is something in you that is special, that doesn’t change. Come and find this specialness in you.
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Peace is not an Achievement
What is the nature of peace? Why does your experience of peace seem to come and go? How to cultivate inner peace? This short post points the way.
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What the World Needs
We can all readily notice that all is not well with the world. You may feel anger, disappointment, loathing, and myriad other feelings as a result. You may also feel like you need to do something to help change the world. But what does the world really need from you? This short poem reveals it.
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The Real Secret of Life
Trouble, suffering, pain, confusion, fear, loss and such, what is their essence? This short poem reveals the real secret of life.
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Is It Time To Boost Your Vitamin-L Levels?
Among the likely causes for illnesses, there is a deeper cause that seems to be there in many cases with many people. We are starving for this inside – find in this little poem what we are deficient in, and how to address that deficiency.
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Experiencing Peace in Life
Peace is elusive in life. Come find an inner secret of peace.
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Life Is
What is life? Is is about possessions, and having everything? This short poem points to the Truth.
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The Secret of Inviting Happiness
How to invite and experience happiness in your life? Come and find the secret of happiness in this revealing post.
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Seeking Happiness
Where can you find happiness? In possessions, in experiences, in achievements, in the world out there? Here’s a story about seeking happiness.
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Get Rid of Thoughts?
You are inundated with thoughts. You think meditation will help you get rid of thoughts. You try that and get frustrated. But there is another way. Find in this short post, the way to real meditation.
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Grace and Peace
What is the connection between Grace and Peace? This short poem reveals the profundity of this dance between Grace and Peace.
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The Importance of Grounding
What can you do to manage life’s storms? Come find the importance of grounding.
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Desires, Manifestation and Surrender
What is the interplay between desire or intention, manifestation and surrender? Find in this short poem.
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What is Abundance?
Is abundance in having more things? What is real abundance? Come and find in this short poem.
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The Truth of Your Being
In the thick of life experiences, you are forgetting who you really are. This little poem points the way to your real nature.
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Two Great Times to Cultivate Peace
When is the best time to cultivate inner peace? This short article provides the answer.
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The Futile Search
You are always trying to become someone, achieve things, and are constantly striving towards these. But what is your real nature? This short story and poem, points you to Reality.
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If You Knew This
Are you aware of the secret in you? This little poem points to the way of unlocking the great secret within you.
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The Cultivation of Peace
Peace is your own real nature. This short poem invites you to cultivate inner peace.
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How To Be Free From Fear
Any number of things in life can create fear in us. Health, safety, employment and income, and more. All this is amplified in the present pandemic Come find how to be free from fear.
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What is Wholeness?
What is Wholeness? Can you experience Wholeness? Find in this short poem.
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Rest in Peace
Why do we wait till someone dies to wish them, “Rest in Peace.” Is peace something to be relegated to the end of your life? Find through this small poem, about the real meaning of peace.
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What is Awakened Living?
Ordinary living is characterized by experiences of dual opposites like happy-sad, clarity-confusion, and more. Spiritual living is characterized by transformation towards greater peace, more happiness and the life. But what is Awakened Living? Find out about the implications of Awakening and Awakened Living.
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Searching for Happiness
We often search for happiness in the world, through our thoughts, words, and actions. In doing so, what do we already have, that we may be overlooking? This simple story of Mulla Nasruddin, points the way!
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How Is Your Time Spent?
How is your time spent? In the moment, is it in fuming about the past, or fearing the future? In grabbing and possessing, or in opening and giving? You have a limited amount of time here. Is your time spent wisely?
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