Things happen that we do not want. The things that we want do not happen. Life is unsatisfactory. All of us seek peace and harmony, because this is what we lack in our lives. Even if we are free from unhappiness at this moment, we can remember a time when we were miserable, we can [...]
Tag: agitation
The Ties that Bind Us
Everyone has internal stores of pain, anger and frustration caused by our judgments toward others who have been unkind or insulting to us. Taking these slights personally causes internal formations that are like ropes that bind us and obstruct our freedom. If we don't know how to cut these internal ropes and transform them, a [...]
Lesson on Anger
When I was a child I reacted to an incident with anger and I spoke to one of my playmates very aggressively, and told her that I would never play with her again. She began to cry and threw something at me, and told me to get away. I stormed home, where my father seeing [...]
Morality in 2014
It is appropriate on the first day of 2014 that we examine "morality" as the first step to creating the conditions for enlightenment to appear. Ponder this: Instead of perusing enlightenment, if we create the right atmosphere, it will appear unaided. Morality has three subsets; right speech, right action and right livelihood, but lets consider [...]
Why meditate?
The question is, why would we seek to meditate? It is probably safe to say that we are feeling uncomfortable, agitated or suffering, and perhaps we are thinking that meditation might be a tool to alleviate this. But how will it work? To begin answering that question, let us examine what leads to these feelings in [...]
Spiritkeep Positive Yoga 