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Many think that guilt can be fixed with punishment. The problem, though, is when you try doling out punishment to yourself – using your own mind. If this self-inflicted punishment were a one-time thing – if you simply noted your mistake and moved on, having once been guilty but now truly wiser – a little […]

Too much negativity and anger will affect every aspect of your life – including your business, your health and your relationships. Therefore it is critical to break habitual reactions that serve as kindling for the fire of anger and other negative emotions. Although they accurately delineate the problem, most “anger management” courses fall short of

Everyone can be replaced. Over the years, as a clinician, I have noticed a syndrome that has emerged in persons of both genders and all levels of the corporate ladder. This syndrome is of gradual onset and is barely perceptible at first. It is only at middle age and beyond that its signs and symptoms begin

For students of the way: Chuang Tzu\’s succinct but impeccable \’finger pointing toward\’ the Way.  Useful also for those trying to decipher Krishnamurti (among others).  It is worth the time and effort it takes to absorb. \”Beings inevitably affirm something, so they inevitably approve something. No one does not affirm, so no one does not

The NET OF INDRA is a visual metaphor that captures the essence of the interdependent and interconnected nature of reality. It is based on an ancient Vedic image of a cosmic net woven by the god Indra, who hangs a dazzling infinitely faceted jewel at each node of the net.  Each jewel reflects every other

Now, as all growth begins in the earth and returns to the earth, I am going to leave you and enter the gate of the inexhaustible to roam the fields of the infinite. I merge with the lights of the sun and moon, I share the eternity of sky and earth. I am mindless of

In Buddhism, ‘emptiness’ is not nothingness, it is the fluidity of existence. It may be defined as the relativity of things, the transience of things, the totality of things, the ultimate ungraspability of things: emptiness is identical to existence—that is why ‘the whole world doesn’t conceal it’. Clinging to the psychological experience of nonbeing or

Tao is a word full of meaning. It may mean to speak, or to guide. It may mean a principle, or a system of logic. It also means a way, both in the sense of a pathway and in the sense of a method. In all of its meanings, Tao has specific and general usages.