Tag Archives: Samsara

The only certainty in life is Change. Each of us faces it, for good or ill. When you are young, an infinite vista seems to stretch ahead. As you age, that vista becomes increasingly less infinite. When you are old, events more so fast towards a close with bewildering rapidity …

Trauma is something that every human being will at one time or another have to encounter and deal with. These can be minor traumas or severe ones. In fact, one encounters minor traumas quite often; far more often than most people realize. Did you know that just watching the news …

The way in which we perceive life can be both our greatest asset, but also our greatest limitation. Although nobody perceives the world in a completely accurately way, we like to think we do for the most part. Therein lies the problem. We build up a lot of certainty about …

The following article was written in January 2005, when a huge Tsunami unexpectedly swept away a quarter of a million people, many of them on vacation to celebrate New Year. The lessons discussed are still relevant today…   All our minds are captured with the events going on in Asia …

In the process of awakening to higher consciousness, things start to break into our world from the “outside”… Strange happenings that seem out of the ordinary. Strokes of good fortune. Bizarre coincidences. Symbolic messages. The further you progress on the spiritual path, the ever more common these become. If you …

I have long been skeptical of metaphysical teachers of the “You’re already enlightened, you just don’t know it” school of thinking. This kind of concept smacks too much of the “fast, easy, no work” mentality preyed upon by so many marketing schemes, particularly for weight loss and make money bizops. …

Image via Wikipedia In Buddhist teachings, there is a critically important concept called Mindfulness. Put simply, it means that we carry a meditative state of awareness throughout our day, not simply when we are sitting (or walking) in meditation. Thus, the whole of our day and consequently our lives becomes …