III. Buddhism The Man Who Woke Up Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they wer...
Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God.
The game can be won or lost, but not the player himself. If he has worked hard, he has improved his game and indeed his faculties; this happens in defeat fully as much as in victory. As the contestant...
Emerson argued that the whole secret of the teacher’s force lies in the conviction that men are convertible, and they are. They want awakening, [and for that purpose they need teachers] to get the sou...
After all our time living together, my identity is not self-contained: I am the way I am because she is the way she is. This marriage of true minds Shakespeare spoke of does not occur at the wedding n...
What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
There are worse kinds of infidelity than the sexual. I was living with one of the most interesting women in the world, and too often my attention was elsewhere.
The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one’s understanding of the ultimate nature of things.
Some friends accused me of whoring after the Infinite. Well, what better whoredom is there?
When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
The creative quietude of philosophical Taoism means to align one’s daily life to the Tao, to ride its boundless tide and delight in its flow…and to perfect a life of wu wei- pure effectiveness and cre...
Do not seek after truth. Merely cease to hold opinions.
Derived from the root s-l-m, which means primarily peace but in a secondary sense surrender, its full connotation is the peace that comes when one’s life is surrendered to God. This makes Islam—togeth...
Building upon this early conception of the Church, Christians came to think of it as having a double aspect. Insofar as it consists of Christ and the Holy Spirit dwelling in people and suffusing them...
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this—the poets declare!2 Science
The point of the story is that the universe is one gigantic Wishing Tree, with branches that reach into every heart. The cosmic process decrees that sometime or other, in this life or another, each of...
Religiously conceived, the human opportunity is to transform flashes of illumination into abiding light.
Raja yoga with asanas (poses and breathing) is a way of leading the inquirer to direct personal experience of the beyond that is within. Its method is willed introversion, one of the classic implement...