By Dr. Yogesh A Bang I am a surgeon and work in a hospital in Hyderabad (India). We once had a 47-year-old patient in the ICU who was operated upon twice within 20 days at some local hospital before he was admitted here. His condition was very critical and was diagnosed with enterocutaneous fistula, which […]
It’s all in the mind — the feeling of a purpose and belonging…. After losing his parents, this 3-year-old orangutan was so depressed he wouldn’t eat and didn’t respond to any medical treatments. The veterinarians thought he would surely die from sadness. The zoo keepers found an old sick dog on the grounds […]
Look at people’s faces. They carry life as a burden — boring, with no meaning. They move as if the burden of the whole world is on their shoulders. It seems that everything is just a nightmare, a very cruel joke, that somebody is playing a trick, torturing them. Life is not a celebration, it […]
Here is a mistake that most people make in their relationships with others. They try to build a steady nesting place in the ever moving stream of life. Everything in the entire existence is limited by time, including relationship, and therefore it comes with an expiry date. Now think of a person whose love […]
What can one do to attain happiness? There is nothing anyone can do; for the simple reason that we are already happy right now, since the very nature of our real Self is infinite bliss. So how can we acquire what we already have? If that is so, why do we not experience this happiness […]
ॐ AUM We can always find a teacher A Guru has to find and accept us Therefore, we can’t go for Guru shopping! A teacher requires obedience and discipline from the pupil A Guru requires trust and humility from the disciple A teacher is a guide on the path A Guru is a […]
When we take a look at the world, we see unhappiness around us as well as within us. Do we know what causes unhappiness? Most of us will probably say that it is due to poverty or disease or loss or loneliness or oppression or war or hatred or intolerance or atheism and we will […]
Sweetening a Sour Apple By Madisyn Taylor When dealing with negative people, we can choose not to respond to their behavior and allow our positive behavior be an example. Because life requires that we interact with different personalities, it is not uncommon for us to encounter a situation where there is one person […]
The Buddha explained how to handle insult and maintain compassion. One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. “You have no right teaching others,” he shouted. “You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.” Buddha was not […]
Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old fellow who always prayed, “Lord, prop us up on our leaning side.” After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently. He answered, “Well sir, you see, it’s like this… I got an old […]
