How many times have you questioned if you have what it takes to learn something, achieve a goal, launch a business, build a loving relationship, be a good parent, transform your life, or…? I could go on, of course, so you can fill out the question with what relates to your individual process and stage of life. Perhaps you express…
Tag: spiritual growth
The Difference Between Spiritual Growth and Spiritualized Ego
I was initiated as a Buddhist nun in my late 20s by an enlightened master from Thailand during a 40-day Vipassana retreat. I shaved my head and eyebrows, wore a modest white robe, and spent most of the day meditating according to a specific technique passed down this lineage for thousands of years. In the early morning I’d recite some…
Are You Ready To Hit the Ground Running?
According to the lunar calendar, the harvest season begins when the Sun moves from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer mid-January. This is known as Makar Sankranti, which is also a major harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India and one of the few Hindu festivals happening on a fixed date, which is January 14th (a…
Do You Know What True Love Is?
Billie Holiday soulfully sings, “You don’t know what love is… Until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues… Until you’ve loved a love you’ve had to lose… You don’t know what love is.” Clearly, she’s not the only one portraying love as something that hurts; most of the songs and stories and movies out there convey a very similar message.…
Do You Know What Makes You Happy?
We all want to be happy. Yet my idea of happiness may be different from yours, and yours is probably unlike someone else’s. Although it is supposed to be the state of mind that we all desire, if you asked a politician, a scientist, a psychologist, a young kid, and an enlightened saint what happiness is, you’d get completely different…
What Is Meditation?
Meditation is the practice of bringing the mind inward by concentrating on a single thought (or object) to exclude all other thoughts. It cannot happen without complete concentration, since the mind is continuously creating thoughts and bringing your attention from one thing to the next. Only when the concentration increases, thus excluding all thought waves, the mind becomes calm and…