Spiritual Growth

How To Love Yourself

30 May 2011

You cannot make yourself love yourself just as you cannot make yourself love another person. Loving yourself is a result, rather than a cause, of a changed personality. When you have rid yourself of qualities that you dislike or are no longer limited by fears and inhibitions, or you just happen to have a a [...]

Are you Evil

3 May 2011

The thoughts of this writing are based on the Hermetica, a body of literature written in late antiquity, but believed to be much older. Perhaps written at the time of Moses. Written originally in Latin and Greek, it is the source of the Gnostic teachings and it appears that Christianity took much from it as [...]

The Different Values Of East And West

26 April 2011

Being a mix of cultures, parents from India and Middle East, while being born in Montreal myself, and having lived in various countries for the past 20 years, I see the world split in two cultures or mentalities, East and West. Today, I am in Cambodia, and have observed the different people, locals in the [...]

You Are Nothing More Than A Dust Bunny

18 April 2011

Zen is an interesting path. It tells us that nothing exists including our self, that we have no essential reality or even a soul. This can be very confusing if left without deeper study to find its meaning. We are basically an accumulation of thoughts and desires. They make up the essential reality of your [...]

Why There Is No Balancing The Material And Spiritual

22 March 2011

Everyone is seeking the way to balance their material life with their spiritual aspirations and practices. I believe there is no way to balance the two because they are not in fact separate. For two things to balance against each other, they must be separate and different, but if there is only one thing, then [...]

Cells of a Being

22 February 2011

Let’s use for the purpose of this article, this definition of God. God is not a particular being, there is nothing religious about God. God simply is a name given to a thing so that we can refer to that thing in conversation for the purposes of increasing our knowledge. God is that thing that [...]

Work For The Sake Of The Work

17 January 2011

In my business career as well as with with my clients and students, I have developed a firm belief that our business success is 10% skill and 90% who we are, the quality of our character. This is exemplified by Richard Branson, a man with little education but now a billionaire with over 200 companies. [...]

Spiritual Growth And Logic

13 December 2010

There are many people who are drawing large numbers of followers through their social network, propagating that the world is changing and that the ‘energies’ are now different as humanity enters a realm of heightened awareness. They claim that this new period has changed the process of spiritual development such that a person can skip [...]

Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Seen

1 November 2010

I left my home heading West and returned from the East. In California, I saw giant sequoia redwood trees, twenty stories high and wide as a house. In Hawaii, it was volcanoes and black sand, landscapes like the moon. In Japan, I saw 2000 temples of Kyoto; the largest wooden building in the world surrounding [...]

About Your True Purpose

29 September 2010

Many people are focused on finding their true purpose or life purpose. They spend a lot of time thinking about and trying to find their true purpose, but never get it no matter what methods they try. My best advice is to forget it and give up because you will never find your true purpose. [...]

The Key Factor in Finding a Real Teacher

16 August 2010

In the search for knowledge especially spiritual knowledge, everyone wants the good stuff, high quality, the real meat of knowledge, but so few are willing to pay for it, and they do not understand how to pay. And so they float and wander from school to school, teacher to teacher always feeling disappointed and let [...]

How To Conquer Feeling Criticized

9 August 2010

The way to conquer negative feelings associated with being criticized is based on your interpretation of events. You take things that someone says about you negatively as if you are being criticized, then get depressed, angry or in a bad mood. This is very self centered, all geared towards you thinking and viewing it as [...]

Understanding Words, An End To Conflicts and Anger

19 July 2010

Words are our main form of communication. Words have the greatest power to make us happy or sad, aggravated or elated. How can something that has no actual material reality have such a powerful effect over us emotionally and physically? Here is a very old thought that gives an idea of how we can release [...]

The Perfect Mantra

15 July 2010

Many spiritual schools or paths have their own particular mantras, a word or short phrase that one repeats constantly to keep ones mind focused on God. The Law of Attraction for money shown in The Secret and other goals have their own mantras. I have a mantra that is very effective and practical for western [...]

Self-Lying

9 July 2010

Self-lying is our greatest hindrance to success. The truth cannot be found when you are living in a lie. Self-lying is just that, lying to yourself. We all do it, daily in fact. We may call it by other names, justify it, ignore it, or give in and believe it without even knowing what we [...]

Devotion for Spiritual Growth

23 June 2010

The level of awe and devotion required for spiritual growth is frowned upon by western culture as being unhealthy because you are losing yourself to someone else. Westerners think that you should never give or lose yourself and so the result is that they do not actually learn and grow because they are so determined [...]

New Book “ENTREPRENEUR MONK on Happiness, Success and Spiritual Life”

10 June 2010

Over the last 20 years I have written many articles. I have been posting them on this web site, but since I am writing new articles constantly, many will not make it to be published. As well, with a long list of articles on the site, many will go unnoticed. I have compiled all of [...]

I Have a Dream

13 April 2010

It is a common dream, many people have it, but I have achieved it for many years on a small scale. I would now like to make my dream grow. I have built and had a successful school of this nature in Colorado, but I left that country and now live in New Zealand where [...]

My Prayer

12 April 2010

You will notice that my articles vary in style and content. I assure you that I have written every word of what I publish, and if I take from another, I give them credit. What I write and post here is as much for you, the reader, as it is for me, to let my [...]

How To Succeed In Living Both A Spiritual And Material Life

8 April 2010

I have studied many different paths and often refer to their teachings to help my students understand the same principle from many angles . One such teaching is from the Ancient Sufis – “It takes 100 years to travel a journey alone that would take 2 days with a guide” I have achieved great success [...]

Intellectual Emotions

5 April 2010

This article is a transcript of a talk with a male student. It starts with a discussion of an exercise he has been given and then expands into the subject of the intellectual and emotional centers, feelings and thoughts. He is very shy and lacks self confidence. He has been given the exercise of talking [...]

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