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In a large temple north of Thailand’s ancient capital, Sukotai, there once stood an enormous and ancient clay Buddha. Though not the most handsome or refined work of Thai Buddhist art, it had been cared for over a period of five hundred years and become revered for its sheer longevity. Violent storms, changes of government, and invading armies had come and gone, but the Buddha endured.
At one point, however, the monks who tended the temple noticed that the statue had begun to crack and would soon be in need of repair and repainting. After a stretch of particularly hot, dry weather, one of the cracks became so wide that a curious monk took his flashlight and peered inside. What shone back at him was a flash of brilliant gold! Inside this plain old statue, the temple residents discovered one of the largest and most luminous gold images of Buddha ever created in Southeast Asia. Now uncovered, the golden Buddha draws throngs of devoted pilgrims from all over Thailand.
The monks believe that this shining work of art had been covered in plaster and clay to protect it during times of conflict and unrest. In much the same way, each of us has encountered threatening situations that lead us to cover our innate nobility. Just as the people of Sukotai had forgotten about the golden Buddha, we too have forgotten our essential nature. Much of the time we operate from the protective layer. The primary aim of Buddhist psychology is to help us see beneath this armoring and bring out our original goodness, called our Buddha nature.
This is a first principle of Buddhist psychology:
Jack Kornfield
“There’s something magical about the Himalayas. It’s not just the snow-clad peaks or the thunderous silence of high altitudes — it’s the way the mountains strip you of ego. Of identity. Of stories.
On the very first night in my cave, I sat cross-legged, wrapped in three layers of wool, the temperature already subzero. I had no distractions. No books. No phone. No mirror. And in that vast absence, something unexpected came alive — presence.
The kind that watches every breath with reverence.
The kind that listens to the cracking of ice as if the mountain itself is breathing.
I had imagined I would feel enlightened within days. Instead, I met my restlessness. My hunger. My irritation. The ache in my back. The past traumas I thought I had left behind. All of it rose like mist, and all I could do was witness.
Meditation is not escape — it is confrontation.
You don’t meet God by running from your pain. You meet God by walking straight into it, bare-souled, until your tears melt into prayer.
And then, one evening, as I lit the oil lamp and sat down to chant, I felt something loosen — not in the world, but within me. A tight knot of craving dissolved.
In that silence, there was no need to become anything.
I already was.”
Om Swami
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~ A cornerstone of philosophical and spiritual literature, Buddha According to Angel Jeanne is a book capable of rewriting the entire history of Buddhism. It offers a previously unseen perspective on the original spiritual path created by Buddha, bringing to light ancient teachings that had been censored or lost over the two millennia since his birth. With great wisdom, respect, and humility, the Author demonstrates vast depth of knowledge - result of her extraordinary psychic experiences - and resurrects the full recognition of the value that Buddha, the “Being made of gold”, deserves. From the incredible story of his life, through the accounts of his greatest Miracles, to a detailed explanation of his ideals and principles - still profoundly current and truly life-changing - this work reveals that only an Enlightened mind could shine a true Light on the memory of the greatest Enlightened One of all time. Thanks to this book, that memory will never be lost. ~
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The highest of all feminine types in India is mother, higher than wife. Wife and children may desert a man, but his mother never. Mother is the same or loves her child perhaps a little more. Mother represents colourless love that knows no barter, love that never dies. Who can have such love?—only mother, not son, nor daughter, nor wife. "I am the Power that manifests everywhere", says the Mother—she who is bringing out this universe, and She who is bringing forth the following destruction. No need to say that destruction is only the beginning of creation. The top of a hill is only the beginning of a valley.
Swami vivekananda
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"A devotee whose heart is pure, not dependent on or insistent for a particular result or worldly gain, free from selfishness in all undertakings, free from worry (being faithful to the divine will), yet acts skillfully to the best of his/her ability... such a pure devotee is very dear to the Lord."
अनपेक्षः शुचिर्दक्ष उदासीनो गतव्यथः
सर्वारम्भपरित्यागी यो मद्भक्तः स मे प्रियः।
~ Bhagvad gita 12.16
🌸 The nature of true love is such that the beloved dwells in the core of one's heart & cannot be forgotten even for a moment. The Lord's pure devotees are always in the core of His heart, & he is always in theirs. They are most dear to Him, and He is most dear to them. The devotee knows nothing but the Lord, who always protects the souls surrendered to Him. There is no question of separation, neither in this world nor in the next, for the bond of 'Bhakti' is far beyond the mortal cares of this world of birth & death 🌸
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If you don’t find a teacher soon, you’ll live this life in vain. It’s true, you have the buddha-nature. But without the help of a teacher you’ll never know it. Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.
If, though, by the conjunction of conditions, someone understands what the Buddha meant, that person doesn’t need a teacher. Such a person has a natural awareness superior to anything taught. But unless you’re so blessed, study hard, and by means of instruction you’ll understand.
People who don’t understand and think they can do so without study are no different from those deluded souls who can’t tell white from black. Falsely proclaiming the Buddhadharma, such persons in fact blaspheme the Buddha and subvert the Dharma. They preach as if they were bringing rain. But theirs is the preaching of devils, not of buddhas. Their teacher is the King of Devils and their disciples are the Devil’s minions. Deluded people who follow such instruction unwittingly sink deeper in the Sea of Birth and Death.
Bodhidharma
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DON’T SEEK YOUR SELF IN THE MIND
I feel that there is still a great deal I need to learn about the workings of my mind before I can get anywhere near full consciousness or spiritual enlightenment.
No, you don’t. The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind. Once you have understood the basic dysfunction, there isn’t really much else that you need to learn or understand. Studying the complexities of the mind may make you a good psychologist, but doing so won’t take you beyond the mind, just as the study of madness isn’t enough to create sanity. You have already understood the basic mechanics of the unconscious state: identification with the mind, which creates a false self, the ego, as a substitute for your true self rooted in Being. You become as a “branch cut off from the vine,” as Jesus puts it.
The ego’s needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want. Once you know how the basic dysfunction operates, there is no need to explore all its countless manifestations, no need to make it into a complex personal problem. The ego, of course, loves that. It is always seeking for something to attach itself to in order to uphold and strengthen its illusory sense of self, and it will readily attach itself to your problems. This is why, for so many people, a large part of their sense of self is intimately connected with their problems. Once this has happened, the last thing they want is to become free of them; that would mean loss of self. There can be a great deal of unconscious ego investment in pain and suffering.
So once you recognize the root of unconsciousness as identification with the mind, which of course includes the emotions, you step out of it. You become present. When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind in itself is not dysfunctional. It is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are. It then becomes the egoic mind and takes over your whole life.
Eckhart Tolle
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The light of Brahman flashes in lightning;
The light of Brahman flashes in our eyes.
It is the power of Brahman that makes
The mind to think, desire, and will. Therefore
Use this power to meditate on Brahman.
[ IV.4–6 ]
At a conference held in New Orleans some years ago, physicists were challenged to explain why there were no pioneers on the order of Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg any more. One young physicist pointed out that the comparison was a bit unfair. Those bold visionaries had been exploring the world outside, while his generation was faced with the infinitely harder task of querying, Who is the investigator? How is the mind, our instrument of knowing, supposed to turn around and know itself?
In India it seems that this point had been reached and crossed very early. Fundamental questions about reality are found even as early as the Rig Veda:
What was all this before creation?
Was there water?
Only God knows, or perhaps he knows not . . . (X.129)
By the time we reach the Upanishads this kind of questioning is no longer speculative but has become a systematic and relentless pursuit of truth, and it embraced the realization that to know truth we have to come to grips with the medium of knowing and the identity of the knower.
This is the realization that turns mere knowing into realization, objective science into mystical awareness. There is a Sufi story about a seeker who calls on Allah day in and day out for years and finally throws himself down and sobs, “How long have I been calling and you do not answer!” Then he hears a voice: “Who do you think has been making you call me?”
Kena, the title and opening word of the present Upanishad, means “by whom?” – that is, impelled by whom do all the motions of life stir? Or in Shankara’s brilliant paraphrase, “By whose mere presence does that desire arise which moves the universe?”
The text’s answer is clear. The first thirteen verses declare, “He is the ear of the ear”: that is, that which moves the world is consciousness, which in the human being becomes cognition, among other vital functions. Note that among the powers that operate our senses we meet “that which makes the mind think.” Mind was a sense, in the Vedantic worldview, in fact, the chief sense. This is a little easier to understand when we take into account that the word we translate as “sense” is actually indriya, “power, faculty.”
Then comes a parable. Among the gods (the faculties of perception) only Indra has the staying power to merit instruction from the goddess of wisdom, Uma, the divine consort of Shiva. She teaches that the victory of the Vedic gods over their adversaries (the creative triumph of order over chaos) has not been theirs but that of the supreme power working through them. This is an allegory of the message which sent the Isha Upanishad so deeply into Gandhi’s consciousness, about acting without attachment to the results. The victory of good over evil is guaranteed – but not by the doer. We cannot win that victory, but we can make ourselves instruments of it, precisely by not thinking of ourselves as the doers but by “making ourselves zero,” in Gandhi’s phrase. This is an immediate, practical consequence of the realization that we are not really the ultimate doer of any of “our” actions, including the act of knowing: “It is the power of Brahman that makes the mind to think . . .Therefore, use this power to meditate on Brahman” (IV.5–6).
With an assurance that this truth is all the seeker need discover, the Kena ends. –M.N.
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For those who have found the still point of Eternity, around which all—including themselves—revolves, everything is acceptable as it is; indeed, can be experienced as glorious and wonderful. The first duty of the individual, consequently, is simply to play his given role—as do the sun and moon, the various animal and plant species, the waters, the rocks, and the stars—without resistance, without fault; and then, if possible, so to order one’s mind as to identify its consciousness with the inhabiting principle of the whole.
Joseph Campbell
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🚩The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
🚩The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
🚩The Book of Woman by Osho
🚩The Tell Tale Brain by V.S Ramachandran
🚩A Million Thoughts by Om Swami
🚩Hatha yoga Pradipika by Swatmarama
🚩The Self-Love Experiment: Fifteen Principles for Becoming More Kind, Compassionate, and Accepting of Yourself by Shannon Kaiser
🚩The End of Your World by Adyashanti
🔝The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success by Deepak Chopra
🕉When Things Dont Go Your Way by Haemin Sunim
🕉Bhagavad Gita As It Is by His Divine Grace Sri A.C Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada
🏳️Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
🏳️Jnana Yoga by swami Vivekananda
🏳️Bhakti Yoga by Swami Vivekananda
🏳️Living with Himalayan Masters by Swami Rama
🏳️Quantum Healing by Deepak Chopra
🏳️The Journey Home by Radhanath Swami
🏳️Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
🏳️The Legend of the Goddess by Om Swami
🏳️Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García and Francesc Miralles
❤️Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise by Thich Nhat Hanh
🧘♀️Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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🕉️ Insights from the Bhagavad Gita – Finding Inner Strength in Times of Confusion
For the Modern Seeker
> “कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भूर्मा ते सङ्गोऽस्त्वकर्मणि॥”
— Bhagavad Gita 2.47
Translation:
You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.
🌿 Explanation:
In this timeless verse, Krishna teaches Arjuna the essence of Karma Yoga — performing one’s duty with dedication and detachment. He reminds us not to get emotionally entangled in the outcomes, but to focus on effort with integrity.
In today’s fast-paced world, people often equate success with results — money, fame, likes, promotions. This mindset creates stress, anxiety, and fear of failure. Gita's wisdom gives us a mental shield: Do your best, but don't be enslaved by the outcome.
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> “समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते॥”
— Bhagavad Gita 2.15
Translation:
The wise who remain steady in both joy and sorrow, who are undisturbed by them, become fit for immortality.
🌿 Explanation:
Life will bring both happiness and pain. Those who can remain emotionally balanced, without being swayed by highs and lows, are on the path to inner liberation.
📌 Modern Relevance:
Today, mental health struggles are rising. Gita offers deep emotional stability — to remain calm in heartbreaks, job loss, betrayal, or sudden change. This verse invites us to develop resilience, not by suppressing emotions but by transcending the ego's reactions.
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> “योगस्थः कुरु कर्माणि सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा धनञ्जय।
सिद्ध्यसिद्ध्योः समो भूत्वा समत्वं योग उच्यते॥”
— Bhagavad Gita 2.48
Translation:
Perform your duty with equanimity, O Arjuna, abandoning attachment to success or failure. Such evenness of mind is called yoga.
🌿 Key Insight:
In a world obsessed with results and validation, Krishna redefines success as inner balance. True yoga is not just on a mat — it’s in your attitude toward life. It teaches us to remain centered whether we win or lose.
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🪔 Final Thought:
The Gita does not ask us to renounce the world, but to live in it with a higher awareness.
In every challenging moment, we can ask ourselves:
“Am I acting from fear, or from Dharma?”
“Am I holding on to results, or doing what is right?”
✨ That shift changes everything.
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🌿 Zen Insight: The Sound of One Hand Clapping 🌿
> “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
– A classic Zen koan
Zen does not aim to answer this question—it invites you to experience it.
The mind tries to solve it logically, but Zen nudges you beyond logic.
It is not about arriving at an answer.
It’s about dissolving the questioner.
In the silence between your thoughts,
In the space where questions vanish,
You glimpse the truth.
Let the koan echo within you,
Not for understanding—
But for awakening.
🪷 Sit. Breathe. Listen.
You may not hear a sound,
But you may hear yourself.
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🌱 The Art of Just Being: Lessons from Shunryu Suzuki 🌱
In Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen, Shunryu Suzuki Roshi invites us to embrace shikantaza—simply sitting, fully present, without chasing enlightenment. “When we do not expect anything, we can be ourselves,” he says. This is Zen: not striving for a goal, but living each moment with care and awareness.
Whether you’re meditating in a zendo or arranging chairs in a room, every act is practice when done with intention. Suzuki reminds us, “To care for the chairs means our practice goes beyond the zendo.” By letting go of dualistic thinking—good/bad, success/failure—we find freedom in the ordinary. Even difficulties, like a painful moment in meditation or a life challenge, become part of the “perfect reality” when we accept them without clinging.
Suzuki’s wisdom, shared through stories like his near-drowning at Tassajara or practicing zazen while ill, shows us that Zen isn’t about perfection—it’s about being fully present, even in imperfection. “Wherever you are, enlightenment is there,” he teaches. So, pause, breathe, and meet this moment as it is.
🧘♂️ Try this: Next time you’re doing a simple task—washing dishes, walking, or waiting—focus fully on it. Notice your breath, your movements, without judgment. How does it feel to just be?
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🧩 Spiritual Health Puzzle: The River Crossing
You are standing on the bank of a wide, serene river. On the other side lies a land said to represent inner peace and self-realization. Five different boats approach, each offering you passage across. You may choose only one.
Each boat has a name and description. Which do you choose?
🚣♀️ Option A: The Boat of Silence
A wooden boat guided by a quiet monk. He says nothing but gestures you to sit and close your eyes. You feel calm just being near him.
A sturdy boat filled with people working together. Its captain asks, “What will you contribute on the other side?” Everyone on board has a role.
A colorful, dreamlike boat with symbols and strange music. The boatman smiles cryptically. “Answers?” he laughs. “Let them go."
Decorated with flowers and incense, this boat plays sacred chants. A soft voice calls, “Come with love in your heart"
Sleek and modern, filled with books and charts. The captain asks you, “What do you already know of the other side"
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Yes, it is very dark right now, but to find the light you need not go back. To find
light you have to go forward. The darker the night, the closer is the morning, and a few have reached the morning. You can see the sunlight in their eyes, you can see the flowers of their being blossoming. You can feel the fragrance that is released. So it is only a question of a little more patience, a little more courage.
Osho
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Q. What should I do if an old painful memory arises during meditation?
A. Old memories, hurts, fears, angers, resentments, etc., can arise in meditation. Simply allow them to arise without resisting, analyzing, judging, or denying them. Just watch them without getting involved. See that they do not define who you are. They are pockets of unconsciousness arising to be purified in the light of awareness and released from your system. Allow the light of being to set suffering free.
Adyashanti
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Other people’s actions are the result of their own pain and not the result of any intention to hurt you. A wrong perception can be the cause of a lot of suffering. This is why, whenever we have a perception, we have to ask ourselves if our perception is right. When we stand with friends looking at the setting sun, we’re sure the sun has not set quite yet. But a scientist might tell us that the sun we’re seeing is only the image of the sun of eight minutes ago. We are subject to thousands of wrong perceptions like this in our daily lives. The next time you suffer, and you believe that your suffering has been caused by the person you love the most, ask your loved one for help.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Happiness comes, not by helplessly wishing for it, but by dreaming, thinking, and living it in all circumstances. No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness, the secret river of joy, flowing beneath the sands of your thoughts and the rocky soils of hard trials.
Some people smile most of the time while they hide a sorrow-corroded heart. Such people slowly pine away beneath the shadows of meaningless smiles. There are other people who smile once in a while, yet have beneath the surface a million fountains of laughing peace.
Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances, and say to yourself, "Happiness is the greatest divine birthright-the buried treasure of my soul. I have found that I am secretly rich beyond the dream of kings."
Paramahamsa Yogananda
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Real self-confidence is not based on our achievements or our successes in this world, but it is based on the realization of who we are, what our purpose is and what we represent to ourselves, to our families and to the world around us.
If a person has such self-confidence, then he can generate confidence and faith in others. Actually, to fail is not much of a loss; to lose one’s character and integrity is a major loss to our inner life.
A person with proper disposition and attitude is willing to accept even major failures in the eyes of the world in order to preserve the high values that he or she believes in. If we’re willing to sell our ideals, our ethics, our character, our integrity, and our very soul for the adoration of this world, then our so-called self-confidence will be built on a foundation of sand. It has no real substance and it can bring us no real fulfillment.
Radhanathswami
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"God alone is the Doer."
“You may say that there are good and bad actions, but God Himself has made the law of karma. He is the Inner Controller. A man cannot even utter the name of God unless it is His will. Therefore, I say: O Mother, I am the machine, and You are the Operator; I am the house, and You are the Indweller; I am the chariot, and You are the Charioteer. I do as You make me do; I speak as You make me speak. Not I, not I, but You, O Mother, You do everything.”
“A man is free to think that he is free, but that very thought is by God's will. When a storm shakes a tree violently, some of its leaves fall off, and some remain. The leaves fall because the wind is strong — but also because the leaves are dry and old. The strong wind is the Divine Will. Everything happens by His will, yet man is responsible for his actions, for he has been given the power to discriminate.”
Sri Ramakrishna paramahnsa
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