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overcoming suffering

Life is suffering and let no man or woman tell you different. We suffer because we perpetuate the same conditioned thinking handed down to us by our parents, peers, culture, etc., that were handed down to them. These “Sins of the Fathers” can be stopped only when we at last turn within and examine that which we believe to be true about ourselves and the world around us.

Save the Children: Examine Your Life

“All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer One of the things you should expect if you genuinely begin to embrace nonduality is the growing habit of…

August 16, 2012

The Mystic Series: Robert Adams & Silence of the Heart

To the human mind it is easier to pay homage to (or await the return of) a dead mystic than pay heed to one who may actually walk amongst us. This is the first in what will be an occasional series on more contemporary…

August 9, 2012

To Lose the Mind is to Find Happiness

“To expound and propagate concepts is simple. To drop all concepts is difficult and rare.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj Some of the ‘smartest’ people I know, the ones with all the acronyms and letters after their names and the framed, institutional placards on their walls,…

August 5, 2012

Lessons Learned

It’s been roughly three years since the launch of this blog and if I had to sum up everything I’ve learned over that stretch of time it would boil down to something like this: 1. Let go Suffering cannot be healed so long as…

July 13, 2012

To Know Thyself: Part 2

“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at…

May 3, 2012

To Know Thyself: Part 1

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” – Charles Bukowski Anyone with children knows they are famous for taking the words of their friends as gospel. “Susie says that…

April 20, 2012