What makes us happy? What makes us unhappy? Is happiness our ultimate goal, or is it just momentary, fleeting, ephemeral? Happiness is, without doubt, the greatest feeling. All of us always want to be happy. Everyone is in an eternal pursuit of happiness. There are many books and articles on how to be happy. But our focus should […]
“Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.” — Corita Kent “There’s meaning to be found in every moment, In everything we think and see and do… “There’s purpose to be found in every challenge, And joy in every dream that we pursue. “There’s warmth in every kindness […]
Leo Tolstoy has written a beautiful story: Three men became very famous saints in Russia. The highest priest of the country was very much disturbed — obviously, because people were not coming to him, people were going to those three saints and he had not even heard their names. How could they be saints? […]
This is an ancient Chinese story, which is well known as a chengyu (4 character saying) even today in modern China. Sai Weng Shi Ma 塞翁失马 There is a very famous Taoist story. The story is about an old Taoist farmer whose horse ran away… That evening the neighbors gathered to sympathize with him since this was such […]
Life is made of lessons. Every day we learn something new and hopefully use it to gain a little more happiness for ourselves, make less mistakes and get a bit closer to the person we want to become. Every positive thought is a silent prayer that will change our life. We cannot hang […]
Mind is a very complex instrument. It has got vast potential. Mind can conceive great ideas and concepts. Great monuments that were built in ancient times, which are a source of wonder even today, were all conceived in someone’s mind and conveyed to thousands of workers without the help of any blueprint or paper. Many […]
There was a boy who found a turtle. He started to examine it but the turtle pulled in its head and closed its shell-like a vice. The boy was upset and he picked up a stick to try to pry it open. The boy’s uncle saw all this and remarked, No, that’s not the […]
Waste of Skills and Abilities A mother camel and her baby were lying down, soaking up the sun. The baby camel asked his mom, “Why do we have these big humps on our back?” The mom stopped to think and then said, “We live in the desert where there is not much water […]
Our mind collects countless garbage, in the form of impressions, inclinations and tendencies, over a period of millions of lives. While most of these remain in our subconscious mind, some surface to the conscious mind, from time to time, causing untold psychological sufferings in the form of restlessness, agitations, miseries, frustrations, depression, disappointments and discontentment. There is […]
When we read the scriptures, we don’t see more in the book than we did before. Rather we see more in us and more of us in a different light altogether than we did previously, with the help of a Guru. Learning is accomplished by reading books or listening to discourses. Wisdom is attained […]
