The Life Of Bulleh Shâh
BULLEH SHÂH IS GENERALLY REGARDED to be one of the greatest Sufi poet/saints from the Punjab area of India. Born in 1680, in Pandoke Village, a few miles from Lahore, his original name was Abdullah...
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WHILE LIVING IN FRANCE, I read various spiritual works. Among them was a book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great philosophical linguist. Wittgenstein argued that words can be dangerous since they have...
View ArticleThe Final Barrier Is Our Very Thought
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View ArticleThe Source Prior To All Perception
EVERYTHING THAT APPEARS REAL, Everything that you have been told, Everything that you have come to believe, Is all the fabrication of your mind. There is no path. There is no dogma. There is only the...
View ArticleRays Of The Absolute
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View ArticleAsian Perspectives of Thomas Merton
During Pope Francis' recent visit to the United States, while addressing the Congress, he mentioned Fr. Thomas Merton. This is a reprint of an original article that we ran in an early print issue of...
View ArticleThe Icy Couch
AS WE SIT, THE ENDLESS SPINNING in our heads reveals to us our strategy. If we label our thoughts long enough we’re going to recognize our strategy. It’s the strategy itself that generates the buzzing...
View ArticleAction and Non-Action
“Enlightenment is straightly attained by freedom from separate selfhood.” —The Buddha “Is not the idea of liberation in the domain of maya? Does not the Vedanta teach that the Atman (the I-Reality) is...
View ArticleThe Awakened Heart
Working with the Emotions after AwakeningTHE BUDDHA TAUGHT THAT WE MUST become aware and accepting of the entire range of feelings—of pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant feelings as each arises. He went...
View ArticleThat Which Is
God has no reflection of himself. There is no one or thing to do the reflecting. The One Self is the Self of All, all Self. A reflection would not be the original, but rather an “image,” a “likeness,”...
View ArticleInquiring Beyond the Non-Dual: How Deep Are You Willing to Go?
It’s easy to recognize non-dual presence and let it go to your head. The concepts start to replace the direct experience. At about that time, non-duality becomes like a religion, something to defend, a...
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In my hermitage in France there is a bush of japonica, Japanese quince. The bush usually blossoms in the spring, but one winter it had been quite warm and the flower buds had come early. During the...
View ArticleNaked Song
Lalla lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal streams were merging: Shaivism, Sufism, Vedantic non-dualism, and other –isms, but Lalla is beyond religious categories, a living...
View ArticleDream and Waking Experience
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on And our little life Is rounded by a sleep.” Shakespeare really did know what he was talking about and it was not just poetic effervescence. Maharshi used to say...
View ArticleThat Which Is
God has no reflection of himself. There is no one or thing to do the reflecting. The One Self is the Self of All, all Self. A reflection would not be the original, but rather an “image,” a “likeness,”...
View ArticleInquiring Beyond the Non-Dual: How Deep Are You Willing to Go?
It’s easy to recognize non-dual presence and let it go to your head. The concepts start to replace the direct experience. At about that time, non-duality becomes like a religion, something to defend, a...
View ArticleNo Death, No Fear
In my hermitage in France there is a bush of japonica, Japanese quince. The bush usually blossoms in the spring, but one winter it had been quite warm and the flower buds had come early. During the...
View ArticleNaked Song
Lalla lived in Kashmir in the 14th century, when many doctrinal streams were merging: Shaivism, Sufism, Vedantic non-dualism, and other –isms, but Lalla is beyond religious categories, a living...
View ArticleDream and Waking Experience
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on And our little life Is rounded by a sleep.” Shakespeare really did know what he was talking about and it was not just poetic effervescence. Maharshi used to say...
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