personal development

Time And The Search For Knowledge

14 December 2011

The search for knowledge and self-improvement drives many people in the path of personal growth. Knowledge and information are not the same although our educated minds have confused the two and made them one from the intellectual point of view. Information is like any other item, it can be collected and accumulated. To do this, [...]

The Factual Definition Of The Word SIN From the Original Bible

2 December 2011

This article is about the incorrect interpretation of the word and concept of ‘sin’ in the Bible. Here is its original definition. This research was done by my brother Michael, a truly great scholar and infinite source of accurate information as he has learnt many of the ancient languages, last count at 12. Michael has [...]

The Difference Between Your Character And Your Self

30 November 2011

There is a difference between ones character and abilities and ones self. The skills are temporary, they die with the body, ones self continues. When we compare our skills and personal growth to each other in the process of our self-improvement, we have superiority and inferiority. That is where we get lost in ego. Ego [...]

How To Know The Truth Is The Real Question

9 November 2011

Asking for the truth is the ultimate question but first we have to know how to know it. The way is through direct experience by our objective observation of our self. Can you see how subjective you are in your view of everything you encounter.  How everything you hear about you fit into your previous [...]

Moses and the Burning Bush

4 November 2011

True, pure and real emotion is so overwhelming that one feels an expansion in the centre of the chest that grows and continues to grow, issuing forth a physical sensation of pressure, an almost solid but fluid substance. As it flows forth, the body becomes weak yet not weak, it melts and keeps its form. [...]

How To Know When To Let Go, And How

26 October 2011

How do you know when to let go, in business or personal situations in life. This is a very difficult question, but one that is vital to living a life that continuously moves forward. Afterall this planet is moving through space at 1,350,000 miles an hour, so we may as well keep moving also, it [...]

Is Humanity Safe To Be Self-Governed

19 October 2011

Lao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching; ‘…To have harmony in the kingdom, keep the people’s belly full and bed warm.’ He was speaking of how to keep the country running peacefully through accepting the reality that if people are in want, they will react violently, even if that is self-defeating. What can we [...]

The Simplicity of Life

6 September 2011

Searching for the meaning of life, ultimate reality? Thinking of going into a monastery because life is too tough? What do you think the right path to truth may be? There must be some special, mystical, hidden secret teaching or school out there that will bring you to liberation of the suffering and confusion of [...]

Stress and the Flow of Nature

26 August 2011

Every machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. Please bear in mind for this talk that the word Stress is meant like stretched to its maximum. No machine exists that is a whole unit. All machines are a sum of parts. A machine does [...]

The Essence Of The Mind Is Like Air

22 August 2011

This subject is very tricky to understand, it is simple, yet difficult to grasp because it is so simple. For this reason, there will be many discussions about it in different ways for you to have the variety of concepts that one may reach your understanding. Although there will be many lessons on the same [...]

Don’t Do It

9 August 2011

The greatest successes are people who can see some lesson or benefit in absolutely everything. As an example there is the joke of the man who goes to the doctor, lifts his arm, and says; “My arm hurts when I do this.” The doctor replies; “So don’t do that.” The basis of your spiritual growth [...]

Choosing Your Path

5 August 2011

There are many paths to spiritual and worldly freedom. Every person can choose a path that suits them, and many work equally well. We can choose Zen, Kabbalah or Sufi for example which are very different paths but all lead to the same end. Some paths take a person further and quicker than others in [...]

Is The Law Of Attraction Really That All Pervading

2 August 2011

Most proponents of the Law of Attraction argue that you attract everything into your life. This view makes it hard to explain events such as the death of a loved one. People say that my view of ‘logic to life’ makes more sense but it hardly makes life spiritual in the way most people think [...]

Where Did We Come From

30 July 2011

This is the question that so many people ask. Some have found comfort in religion and the different versions of God, but I, like many people, find that a bit hard to accept, so I have spent my life, and continue to look further each day, to find an answer. The first clue is that [...]

The Need Of Companionship, The Joy of Companionship, I Think, Therefore I Am

25 July 2011

The buddha said that what keeps us reincarnating is our need to be recognized, we want to exist and live eternally. The greatest pain for a human is to be totally alone, or even to feel totally alone, that there is no one with any wisdom you could turn to to help, take care, or [...]

Suffering, The Cause Of Suffering, And The End Of Suffering

11 July 2011

Buddha said that life is suffering and that the cause of suffering is desire. That is a very clear and obvious truth. If I desire something, that means I do not have it, and if I want or need something that I do not have, that craving for it does imply suffering to some degree. [...]

What Makes You Be The Way You Are

20 June 2011

Many people want to find their true essential nature, their soul, but of course, that is a very rare discovery, at least it is if you are honest about it. I have another way of searching for that answer which is a bit simpler and perhaps answers more questions about why we are the way [...]

Fitting In And Feeling Out Of Place

2 June 2011

One of the many drawbacks to western culture is the lack of involvement and devotion on a deeply personal level to anything or anyone. When I was in Cambodia I spent a few days with a group from Singapore who was there as a charity project bringing cloths and supplies to the poor. There is [...]

A Shocking And Disturbing Reality About Low Self-Esteem

27 May 2011

People will never change if they think they are alright. This is simply logical, why put in effort to fix what is not broken. We must see and realize that it is NOT alright to accept anything and everything. To accept mediocrity and negativity negates the possibility of progress. This applies to being short changed [...]

How Making Decisions Relates To Depression And Happiness

19 May 2011

Scientific studies show that people who feel they have no control over their life are more prone to depression, but people who feel they have control over their life in general are happy and positive. Therefore we can say in a generality that a feeling of lack of control leads to depression. We liken the [...]

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 [...]

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