MANAGING ADDICTIONS A Key to the Stairway to Heaven If it is true—and much evidence so indicates—that we humans all have addictions, IDENTIFYING them and then coming up with a ‘treatment’ plan, are good beginning steps. The severity and extent of Addiction A compared to Addiction B varies of course. But a clue is to …
FROM ILLUSION TO TRUE SELF: NETI, NETI—NOT THIS, NOT THAT In Genesis 1:26, God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness.” So the very beginning of the Old Testament throws down the gauntlet. We are made in the image of God What is this concept called, ‘God?’ “The Supreme Spirit is …
Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2-4) How might I do this? First, how about relegating INTELLECT to its proper place on our behavior scale—way near the bottom INTELLECT refers to the faculty of the human mind responsible for reasoning, …
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False expectations appearing real. What if there really were nothing to be afraid of? What if fear of failing, fear of success, fear of death, fear of pain…fear of anything and everything, were just parts of the Maya, the illusion, Natraj’s dance of life? Then what? First of all, most, if not all, of the …
pain is inevitable, suffering is optional It is stating the obvious that there are times in life when pain will visit us. Being born itself has enough pain to go around—for mother and baby—not a particularly auspicious beginning on the pain scale. Well, no one said there wouldn’t be some prices to pay for all …
Homa Therapy : Our Last Chance 53 years after the beginning of the widespread sharing of Agnihotra and the Fivefold Path, we find ourselves at a fork in the road, if not a crossroads, if not teetering on the edge of pollution and climate change induced imbalances—(DESTRUCTION)—to say the least—that many say may soon become …
The Spiritual & The Material We’ve been told that there is no difference between the spiritual and the material, that it is just how the mind looks at it. If one perceives so-called reality through the sieve or lens of Love, alleged differences between and among people can be filtered out. What is left is …
The Essence Is The Same. It is more than interesting that the deteriorating situation on Planet Earth seems to affect everyone. Even those of us who erstwhile have put positive spins on just about everything, are ‘getting with the program,’ and are increasingly aware of the troubled waters being bridged—but not always successfully. Some may …
The Reckoning Or How Do We Cope With The Status Quo. The avenging or punishing of past mistakes or misdeeds = the reckoning. It sounds harsh, but it is, in effect, one way of describing how the Law of Karma operates. As we humans are beset with past mistakes or misdeeds, whatever are we to …
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Kicking And Screaming — Direction Heaven. “Kicking and Screaming” is the expression. Your child just won’t stop bike riding even though it is too dark outside, so you feel you need to pick her up and carry her “kicking and screaming,” if need be, into the safety of the house. We children, as in “Be …
