An incident in the life of Goutama the Buddha: At the time, he was dwelling in a big meditation center in the city of Sāvatthī, the capital of the state of Kosala. Large numbers of monks and nuns would go there to learn Vipassana from him. Large numbers of men and women householders would...
Energy fluctuates, but don't be concerned about it too much. You seem to have too much free time, looking at your own energy, whether it is going up or down. Keep yourself busy. When you are busy, everything falls in place. Where is the time to be unhappy when you are so busy? When you...
Once Buddha was visiting a small village. There people got to know about his visit and started to come to him about their problems. One day, some people brought a blind man to him and said, “He is blind. We are his closest friends. We told him about light but he is not ready to...
“I do not consider isolation having to stay at home with who I love.” Isolation is what the seriously ill are experiencing. Stop saying that you are bored, upset that you can't leave the house; while everyone in the hospital wants to go home. So, thank God if you have to stay at home, because despite everything,...
Health is not merely an absence of disease. Health is being established in the Self. It is the dynamic expression of life. One can be said to be in a perfect state of health when one is physically fit, mentally calm and emotionally steady. So how does one achieve this state of all-round health in...
Any minute, any second we could lose someone we know. We are not in control of our life's destiny. How we live our life, while we are here in this world, is what counts. How we share, help and touch someone else's life is what counts. It's not all about you, it's not all about...
A farmer in ancient China had a neighbor who was a hunter, and who owned ferocious and poorly trained hunting dogs. They jumped over the fence frequently and chased the farmer's lambs. The farmer asked his neighbor to keep his dogs in check, but this fell on deaf ears. One day the dogs...
Life has a new and much bigger dimension that what we think. Eating, sleeping, talking to people, being happy one day and unhappy on another day, going out, etc., is all nothing. There is much more to life. *Do you know who you are ? * You are consciousness; scintillating, sparkling light. In our body,...
It was mid April - a time when the planet Earth reels under the harsh rays of the Sun. There was a boundless desert with no trace of life except a little flower. There was not a bird or tree in sight. Just hot, burning sand. The mercury was so scorching the sand dunes...
A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. "Mom and Dad, I'm coming home, but I've a favor to ask. I have a friend I'd like to bring home with me." "Sure," they replied, "we'd love to meet him." "There's...
