The Awakening

On this new path, you meet people that are also on the same journey,,, somehow the universe brings you together, knowing that you might help each other through it.  You get less attached to people and to outcomes, and become something else. Giving off positive energy that you didn't know you had before.

Elusive Happiness

Stańczyk by Jan Matejko

I just want to be happy, this is what every person says at one point or another in life.  Every person has a different criteria and belief about it, starting from something simple like having an ice cream cone to owning your own island.  But what is happiness?  Is it the completion of what we want?  Is it the fulfillment of a dream?  Let's delve into what makes us happy and how to make it last.

The Pursuit of Meaning

While attending Satsang one day, I had this question -- If things are just happening on their own, and change is fluid and ever present, and the Self is not affected by anything, does anything really matter in the long run?

Love : Accept What Is

Somebody asked me what loving and not being in love was?  What it meant to love and be love?

When we think about love, we think about romance, someone loving us as much as we love them.

Is loving being like a saint and giving love to everyone?  No matter who or what they are?  Even if they drive us insane?

A Question of When?

We all go about everyday as if we were running after an insurmountable goal or running from a horrendous monster.  Always in a hurry to do this or finish that, after finishing something, there's always something else over the horizon to accomplish.  And in this mad rush, we think that we are always out of time.

The Pain of Suffering

Why is there suffering?  Why is life so hard that suffering is always looming in the background?  Will suffering make me a better person?  Is suffering a vital part of my life?  Can it end, or am I destined to languish in it's wake?  In order to answer these questions, one must ask what suffering is.  One must understand it, to make sense of it.

Navigating through the Journey

So you've chosen the Path of Knowledge, you have chosen the most direct path, the quickest.  Now what to do? What will I find?  Where will I go?

I think therefore,, I do?

Our minds are very busy things, there are a dozen or so thoughts a minute, and these thoughts vary - some pleasant while others not so, it's so frequent that we do not even remember everything we think of.  We tend to remember those we deem important, those thoughts that has some impact on us.  Other thoughts, and there are a lot of them, fall on the way side.

Truth: A Choice or a Fact

The relevance of truth,,, let that marinate,,, think about it.  What is an absolute truth that you know?  Are you certain of it?


In this life we value the currency of truth and base our journeys and judgments from it. Our societies teach us to hold truth above all else, we have been indoctrinated since childhood that truth is our guiding light.  Also from truth do we get our views on right and wrong. But what is the truth?

Rinse and Repeat

Doesn't it seem like particular things happen over and over?  Usually this cycle it seems like, is something that is troublesome, feels like old rotten furniture thrown away that miraculously makes it's way back to your door.  You wonder why it's back and wince, getting a familiar vibe from it that you might not be fond of.  And now you have to deal with it again, either you have a band aid solution for it; pretend that it isn't happening; or once and for all look at it and figure out what it is, and solve it.

Thoughts about Love

Nothing in life is reliable, what does this mean?


Things never last, everything has an end -- may it be your debt when you've paid it off or not pay; schooling - we graduate; a song - a last note is heard; a film, the day, the month, the year, relationships, and life itself.  This is the way things have always been, we have never experienced anything opposed to this.

What's for Breakfast? How bout Freedom??

Everyone wants to be free,,, man has from the beginning of time fought for it, yearned for it and would die for it.  But what is freedom? And why do we struggle so much to achieve it?  We have been taught that in order to obtain freedom, we have to suffer a great deal first, but do we really have to?

Freedom is being able to do what we want, no limitations or repercussions.  No responsibilities to tie us, nobody telling us what to do, no guidelines to follow and hence no rules.

Your Desires, My Desires

What are desires?  Where do I start?  They come in all forms, things that we want, things we think we must have at all cost.  It could be a material thing -- a big shiny SUV, to non tangible things -- everlasting happiness. And there are so many things in-between, but you get the gist. No man has never had desires, this comes natural to us.

The "I"

   

I've always thought that there was something bigger out there,, something that encompasses everything and everyone. I searched high and low for answers, maybe I could have a clue if I went the route of history, knowing what happened since the beginning of time seemed to be the logical way.

So off to history I went, devouring everything that I could find,,, learning about long lost civilizations that were said to be too advanced for their time.  Sadly this route was as limited as a village roundabout, no explanations were given, if anything, more questions arose. More whats? wheres? whens? hows? and whys?  It seemed like an aimless wandering, years spent learning facts that were good for trivia night and nothing more.