We seem to live on a mental diet of worries, tensions and anxiety. The writers teach us the benefits of calm, regular breathing and how this simple technique always relaxes the mind Years ago, when we were first starting our...
For some of the migrants, their bicycles have proved their saviour. They used it to cycle all the way home hundreds of kilometres away. The author recalls her own carefree cycling days back in the ‘70s in the context of...
Living consciously with Zen in your life is very much about living moment-to-moment in awareness and simply being true to your own nature. This way of Zen enriches your life and helps you discover your full potential: and as you...
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they’ve heard of unemployment and they’ve heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball – Frederic Ogden Nash, American writer and poet...
There is a well-known saying attributed to Jesus Christ: “Love your enemy.” (Matthew) This saying holds highest importance for fostering love. Love includes compassion, as both love and compassion are synonymous with each other. ‘Love your enemy’ means love everyone...
“The COVID crisis has made mankind acutely aware of the value of a single breath. Blessed if that breath is a lungful of clean air, or then doomed to a horrific end if the breath is contaminated with the coronavirus,”...
“Covid-19 eventually will peak and then dissipate. By God’s grace that will happen sooner rather than later. I am neither an epidemiologist nor clairvoyant, but I do know that eventually we will be, mostly, Covid free. While the coronavirus and...
The most dangerous type of ego is spiritual ego. Every person on a spiritual path has to be very careful about developing it. After many years of spiritual practice or reading many spiritual books, or sometimes even after reading one...
Who would have thought that life would change so dramatically? It has been over two months that we have been locked up in our homes, cooking, cleaning, working from home, cut off from our friends and in some cases, even...
Have you ever heard of the term, Spiritual Bypassing? It is also known as Spiritual Sublimation. They are relatively new terms in the field of psychology. They are one and the same thing and in brief, they refer to using...
We can achieve much in our life, if we learn to keep an upright spine, in all our waking hours, while sitting, standing or walking. With an upright spine, energy flows upwards from the base or root (muladhara) chakra towards...
All ideas, all thoughts, have their vibrations at their unique frequencies. A thought of anger has its own frequency, the properties of which are destructive for the individual, and a thought of peace or calm has its own beautiful frequency...
The heteronormative assumptions of our contemporary society idolise a binary gender identity and a heterosexual orientation often aligned with the person’s biological sex. These assumptions make it clear that if you are biologically a female, you must identify and behave...
People — ordinary, everyday people all over the world — willingly open their hearts and their wallets to fill up the donation boxes at thousands of shrines, mosques, temples and churches, day after day. A few of the world’s richest...
In today’s competitive world, what’s the best path to success at the workplace?Sakama karma or self-centred action may seem to be practical for those aspiring to instantly beat the competition, but it may also end up to be a case of...
