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.
Where can you find happiness? In possessions, in experiences, in achievements, in the world out there? Here’s a story about seeking 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!
There is a flow to Nature. As humans with our self-image, we separate ourselves from this flow, and consequently, suffer and struggle. But Nature constantly reflects to us the wisdom needed to Awaken and come back into the flow.
The Buddha is a universally venerated being. As such, based on our own traditions, we have conceptual imagery about The Buddha. This article probes this conceptualization, this illusion, with a radical supposition that “The Buddha is a Shit-stick.” A koan within, reveals the Truth.
In the flow of life, do you notice that, often you resist what is happening. That you are arguing with life. That you lose your calm, your grounding, your center. But life, Nature, keeps flowing. Who is left to suffer? You! Come find the importance of flowing.
All species live in mutually interdependent ways in the ecosystems they are part of. Not humans. Like a virus, parasite or cancer, human wreck the ecosystems they are part of. Why is the human experience of life so full of discordance? Come and find the root cause.
In the ebb and flow of life, can you remain calm and composed, with even temper, whether situations are good or bad? What is real equanimity?
The dew drop and the ocean have been used as metaphors for the sense of personal-self and the One Reality. Kabir, an enlightened poet from India, points eloquently at the awakening experience.
Millions of spiritual practitioners strive through years and decades of practice to awaken. Check out this story-in-verse, of a thief who experiences spontaneous awakening, spontaneous enlightenment.
