Controversy is often of mutual advantage, in order to correct one’s thoughts and awaken new views. But in learning and in mental power both disputants must be tolerably equal. Continue reading
Category Archives: Musings
Karma in(is) Action
We can only live with the consequences of our actions in a world that is quick and firm in punishing our transgressions but slow and fickle about rewarding our better moments.
Birth of the “I”
Recall your first experience as an independent Self. Continue reading
Talking Accordion Blues
As a young boy of around 6 or 7, my grandparents expected me to play the accordion. Of course, they found a teacher who showed me all the important songs Continue reading
The Fourth Reverence
When you seek to manifest your destiny, are you stirred in your “whole soul in amazed wonder at the greatness and sublimity of the inner faculty in man and the insolubility of the mystery which it conceals”? Do you seek to accumulate things or seek the ideal good? Continue reading
Definition of Myth
A “Myth” is what other people believe.
Morality is for Other People
Morality is for other people. I always have a perfectly good excuse for whatever I do.
Not Finding Life’s Purpose
I was asking if you heard of this book, but I guess you are so far above everyone else you do not read, you are all-knowing and all-seeing. Kind of like a Hindu god. … No man is an island, but you are definitely on a trip to ego island! Have fun! Continue reading
New Years Message
The ancient Tantra teachings say that the way to realization differs from age to age, so that methods appropriate to the golden age may lose their effectiveness in our crepuscular times, the “Kali Yuga”. While passive contemplation was appropriate to a more spiritual age, we are weighed down with matter, … Continue reading
The Little Match Girl
Christmas in Germany, 1920 Continue reading