Tag: Meditation
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Who Isn’t My Neighbor?
In 1991, on the day of Kartika Poornima, when the moon is brightest, God gave me a very good idea. He told me, “Help your neighbours as I have helped you.” Then I had to consider, what does the word ‘neighbour’ mean? Is it a person who lives next door or close to my house?…
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On Being Post-secular
The secularization thesis held that organized religion would fade as modern science came to take hold in modern culture and so all of human life would be slowly and properly “disenchanted” or “de-spirited.” This hasn’t happened. Instead, a far stranger development, one charted by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age, has long been unfolding. More…
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How Does My Heart Stay Open?
What does it take for my heart to open? And what does it take for my heart to stay open? I must give up being right. I have to stop trying to be right. And I must drop my stance by which I maintain my rightness. Rightness (to be clear: not righteousness and not truthfulness)…
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Life Is A Burden Vs. Dream Vs. Gift
There are three basic views of life. The first is, if you scratch the surface, what most people think and feel. And it turns out to be incorrect. The second is a thorn to remove the erroneous first view. To view life as a dream “unhooks” the stakes implied by the alleged burden character of existence. One…