A young woman got pregnant in the small village where Zen master Hakuin was living. Her father forced her to confess the name of her lover, but she managed to protect him by pretending it was Hakuin. When the child was born, the infuriated father brought the baby to the monk, saying, “It appears this is your child!” along with…
Category: Spirituality
Are You a True Spiritual Seeker?
I’ve been working on my next book, which is about developing emotional and spiritual freedom, and the more I delve into it, the more it seems to revolve around the following dichotomy: For an ordinary person, life is about social validation and material success. For a spiritual seeker, it’s about finding inner peace and true freedom. How do you effect…
How Your Need To Be Right Hurts You
The words of French philosopher and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin have become a New Age cliché: We are not humans having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Unfortunately, what gives us the opportunity to have a human experience is the ego-mind separating us from our divine essence. So what good is it to…
What Is Kali Yuga?
There is no doubt that the world has become increasingly darker and denser—more attached to sensory, egoic, and materialistic perception. The technological progress humanity has made is now being used in destructive ways that were unimaginable before; we’re continuously poisoning life, in obvious and hidden ways. This is because we’re reaching the end of a dark masculine cosmic cycle within…
How Well Do You Use Your Intuition?
Most people rely on their rational mind to navigate life, unaware that the decisions they make tend to be more unconscious and emotional than logical, or that they’re only conscious of about 10% (if that) of what their mental field holds. They believe there’s one effect to one cause when in reality there are many factors shaping the morphing and…
What Is the Age of Aquarius All About?
Humanity is experiencing fast, radical changes on all levels, and the Internet is brimming with information and misinformation about them. For the mass media, it’s all about keeping you focused on the (often disturbing) appearance of things, and for the New Age movement it’s about revamping old structures to give way to something new. And everything in between. So many…
My Visit With John of God In Abadiânia
Before I moved to the US, I had an unusual encounter with a medium and psychic surgeon from Argentina through the leader of the Buddhist group I belonged to at the time. Some of us in the group went to meet him, and I also helped with organizing things for the people who somehow knew of him and came seeking…