We’ve all been there. At least I’ve been. We have a burning desire for some kind of truth. So, naturally, the first thing we do is venture out into the spiritual marketplace and look for a spiritual teacher. We look for someone who is wise, witty,...
Life is a mess, isn’t it? And the usual way we deal with it is by avoiding looking at the painful truths about life. These truths may hurt, but they’re on the way to freedom from delusion and self-deception. All you need to do is look at them...
Before we get into the signs of spiritual awakening and why they don’t matter, I want to make sure we’re on the same page. People interpret spiritual awakening differently. For some, it may be feeling more connected to their soul, nature, some...
The question if there is a God arises only in a mind that struggles for an explanation, which, at some point in every life, is every mind. Why do things happen the way they happen? Why are there pain, destruction, murder, and traffic jams? If there is a...
If you’re reading this, I assume you’ve already heard or read about the benefit of accepting things as they are. And if the good ol’ regular acceptance was not enough, someone may have suggested practicing radical acceptance to you. The...
The spiritual Self is often depicted as the opposite concept of the ego-self. But if we see the spiritual Self as our true nature, then it is a fundamentally different paradigm than the ego (what we usually consider to be us). So let me start by saying,...