Self Improvement

RULE #6

Many years ago, I heard this story from the Psychologist Wayne Dyer, who used to be a regular on PBS. A President of a country was visiting the Prime Minister of another. As the two leaders were engaged in a serious discussion, a man stormed into the room and started yelling. The Prime Minister spoke sternly…

Non-Judgement

“The Snow falls, each flake in its appropriate space” — Zen saying

There once lived a Wise man in a village. He had a young, noble and accomplished son. One day, his son won a handsome, high prized Arabian horse in a competition. All the villagers cheered for him and asked the…

Non-Attachment

I started a series on Enlightenment in 2021 and in my last blog entry outlined the three fundamental building blocks of an Enlightened way of being in the world namely: Non-attachment, Non-resistance and Non-judgement. In this blog, I will take up the topic of Non-Attachment. One of the common…

Enlightenment

Happy New Year to all my readers. May 2021 usher in a year of good health, healing, peace and unity. Recently, my 20-year-old son requested that I write about Enlightenment and what it means for lay people. I was shocked. Firstly, because he was interested in such a topic at his age and more importantly…

Stories

The Spiritual teacher Byron Katie asks a poignant question: “Who would you be without your stories?”

The Hippocampus in our brain is a puzzle piece assembler and it is always trying to make sense of what is happening to us. It does that by assembling whatever information it can infer…