Rupert Spira on Our True Nature

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Nothing can truly affect our true nature and it is thoughts that create the illusion that
fear has such unpleasant powers.

Rupert Spira

The Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana, on the Channel of the Mind

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The channel of the mind is rooted in the heart.
The mind is only one but due to its association with many sense organs, it appears as many.
Oneness and minuteness are the qualities of mind.

Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana, Foundational text of AYURVEDA Medicine

Jalaluddin Rumi on the Guest House (Self-Acceptance)

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This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

The Guest House
By Jalaluddin Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks

Yogasūtra 2.53 on Prāṇāyāma

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By prāṇāyāma, the mind becomes fit for concentration,
contemplation, and meditation.

Yogasūtra 2.53

Zen Master Roshi Jiyu Kennett on Pride and Inadequacy

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Pride and Inadequacy are two sides of one coin.

Zen Master Roshi Jiyu Kennett

Dot Fisher-Smith on Awe

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Awe is all around us. With a little intentionality, we can reclaim our sense of wonder in the everyday, ordinary moments of life. Perhaps awe, while an ordinary response to the extraordinary, is also an extraordinary response to the ordinary.

Dot Fisher-Smith: To Be In Awe – WISDOM from a 96 year old

Michael Hyatt on Journalling

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Thoughts disentangle themselves, passing over lips and through pencil tips.

Michael Hyatt

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on True Contentment

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From an attitude of true contentment (Santosha), unexcelled happiness, mental comfort, joy and satisfaction, are obtained.

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali on True Contentment

Michael Johnson on the Foundations of Meditation

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Remembering the Foundations of Meditation:
Ānapānasmṛti ≈ mindfulness of inhaling and exhaling

  • Vipaśyanā ≈ insight
  • Maitrī ≈ loving-kindness
  • Vicāra ≈ inquiry
Michael Johnson, Meditation and Yoga

Buddhist Teaching on the Five Hindrances

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Grasping, craving or desire, anger, sloth, restlessness, and doubt—these are the known as the Five Hinderances to Medin Buddhism. In this dharma talk excerpt, Ayya Anandabodhi explains in-depth each of the Five Hinderances and how they obstruct us from seeing things as they really are.

Buddhist Teaching