"You're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that you forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive is what it is all about."
Joseph Campbell
"You're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that you forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive is what it is all about."
Joseph Campbell
Mind & Spiritual Will
If you want to be mindful it would be good to understand the mind. Mind and various mental experiences are not a purely biologic phenomenon originating from the brain. The mind has travelled with you lifetime after lifetime, along with a lot of baggage....
Two Dimensions of Life
If we take a closer look at our life we can see that we live in two dimensions. We live in an outer dimension, the material world, with all our stuff, house, car, bank account, also including our job, status, relationships, even our physical body. The other dimension is the inner dimension, our state of mind.
Wisdom
“Like the light feather in the wind and a ship in the violent storm, the mind is tossed about among objects of love and hatred… It whirls at the mere sight of the skeleton covered with flesh and dressed fashionably with coloured silken clothes. It is intoxicated by wealth. It flits about from object to object forever discontented and never satiated. It rejoices in vain. It weeps in regret. It is humiliated for one moment. And it is again puffed up with pride.”
Swami Sivananda (1887-1963)
Consciousness & Soul
Buddha said he looked inside himself to find ‘who am I’ and found nothing. He reported that there was no individual soul inside, no atma. What does this mean? How can someone be nobody?
Enlightenment
The destiny of every human being is to become enlightened. Enlightenment is not gaining something new. Enlightenment is the dawning of a full and unobstructed awareness of your true nature.....
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Death & Insecurity of Ego
Life and death is a continuous and non-stop cyclical process. Everyday we experience a microcosm of this process as we shift from waking to sleeping and dreaming. When we sleep we disappear.
The Purpose of Life
The purpose of life is to learn the lessons human life brings us, grow out of our bad habits, expand our awareness and improve ourself as much as possible in each lifetime. Destiny is the same for everyone but some take longer to reach the goal....