All of me/us
With ongoing material advancements, especially in the Western world, an accelerating movement towards analysis, fragmentation and materialistic frameworks took hold.
A birthday to remember
Her extraordinary life touched so many aspects even beyond the spiritual achievements and mission. She was dear to Mahatma Gandhi and a frequent child visitor at his ashram.
Truth, Attention, Bliss
In Sanskrit this is called as Sat-Chit-Ananda and it denotes the state of Spirit itself as well as “us” becoming and experiencing that.
The knowledge of love
As Einstein said, we need a higher awareness to overcome problems created in a certain state of awareness. And when we search for absolute meanings, only the highest awareness will do
Knowledge and creation
The power to create - so much prized in our society for centuries as synonymous with achievement, fame and so on. We usually equate it with powers or qualities of our brain. But the subtle system has some other truths in store.
Beyond anger
One of the causes of the ever growing amount of anger is the giant wave of materialism we are all riding upon. For the last almost 2 centuries, acquisition instinct has become stronger and stronger and accepted as the first and most important driver of human existence.
Warm like the Sun
The higher goal of most of our communication is emotional sharing and connectivity. The information part takes primacy in immediate work tasks or direct teaching, but even in those environments the performance lags behind if the emotional connection is poor.
Our two sides
Essentially we distinguish 2 separate sides: a cognitive, calculating and ego-oriented “right side” that lives mostly in our left brain, and an emotional, relational, imaginative and integrative “left side” that lives mainly in our right brain.
On mental health II
In the more general sense, the “mind” has been equated with the impalpable side of our being, what is beyond matter. Of course one needs a reasonably working body to start with, as a general principle.
On mental health I
But why is this seemingly peaking at this precise time ? Was there always a lot of trouble and we couldn’t see it ? Or is it indeed a tsunami of modern realities flowing all over our societies that is sweeping away our inner equilibrium ?