The Mystic and The Sage – A Short Story
One day, surprised by a torrentuous rain, a wandering sage took cover in a cave. There he was surprised by another surprise — a calmly sitting mystic immersed in a blissful state. Upon noticing the sage’s presence, the mystic welcomed him. ...
Love Doesn’t Hurt, Attachments Do
That love hurts is one of the assumptions no one likes but we all take for granted. But why does love hurt? Why is the one thing that, poetically speaking, has the power to transcend time and space causing so much pain? Because it’s not love we are...
The Cause of Suffering in All Its Expressions
If there is one thing we all have in common is that we suffer in life. Even the ones who no longer suffer have, at some point, suffered. To be one of the no-longer-sufferers we have to get to the cause of suffering followed by a visceral understanding that...
50-50
When it comes to what could or couldn’t happen many of us think in terms of probability as if probability is an actual intermediary that actually influences actual happenings. But all it really does is keep us in a limited way of thinking where we are victims of...
Are You Crazy?
Recently, I’ve been, surprisingly often, asked if I wasn’t ever afraid of going crazy (losing my mind), or if I am maybe not already beyond that point. Usually, this question followed a conversation about the nature of reality with a fairly open-minded...
101 Steps For Transformation