No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is ...

The Lacrimosa is part of the poem Dies Irae which describes the Last Judgment, the last trumpet summoning souls before the throne of God. The saved will be delivered and the unsaved cast into eternal flames. The hymn is best known from its use as a sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass for the Dead or Funeral Mass. Belief in ...

In Hinduism, Brahman connotes the highest Universal Principle, the Ultimate Reality in the universe and  it is the material, efficient, formal and final cause of all that exists. It is the pervasive, genderless, infinite, eternal truth which does not change, yet is the cause of all changes. Brahman as a metaphysical concept is the single binding unity behind the diversity in all that exists in the ...

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (Devotion to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra) is the central mantra chanted within all forms of Nichiren and Tendai Buddhism is referred to as Daimoku. The practice of prolonged chanting is referred to as Shōdai while the purpose of chanting Daimoku is to reduce sufferings by eradicating negative Karma. Also reducing ...

Spiritual awakening, a realization that all there is what is. More people are starting to see beyond the illusions of separateness, fear mongering, constructed perceptions of who we are as a species and why we came into this World. It is not about judging what is currently in place, being angry at it and changing it to ...

Dharma is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions -Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. In Hinduism, Dharma signifies behaviours that are considered to be in accordance with the order that makes life and universe possible. These behaviours includes duties, rights, laws, conduct, virtues and 'right way of living'. In Buddhism Dharma means 'cosmic law and ...

Dāna and Cāga (giving, liberality, generosity) were practices that Buddha strongly promoted. Buddha saw Dāna and Cāga as absolutely foundational to spiritual practice. Buddha primarily talked of giving not only in terms of material things, but also in non-material ways. Householders were typically expected to give material things in order to support the monastics. Whereas monastics were expected to ...

Most people think when they open their eyes and look around, that what they are seeing is outside, it seems doesn’t it that you are behind your eyes. And that behind the eyes there is a blank that you can’t see at all; you turn around and you see something in front of you. But behind ...

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain - Emotions do not live in the heart; the heart is just a pump, a pretty important one, of course. Emotions invariably are formed in the mind, in certain parts of the brain. From the mind these emotions - fear, anger, stress, elation, anxiety, ...

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We live our lives pursuing happiness out there as if it is a commodity. We have become slaves to our own desires and craving. Happiness isn't something that can be pursued or purchased like a cheap suit. This is Maya, illusion, the endless play of form. In the Buddhist tradition, ...

The primordial spiral is the manifested World, while Akasha is the unmanifested, or emptiness itself. All of reality is an interplay between these two things; Yang and Yin, or Consciousness and matter. The spiral has often been represented by the snake, the downward current, while the bird or blooming lotus flower has represented the upward current ...

The Pythagorian philosopher Plato hinted enigmatically that there was a golden key that unified all of the mysteries of the universe. The golden key is the intelligence of the logos, the source of the primordial om. One could say that it is the mind of God. The source of this divine symmetry is the greatest mystery of ...

There is one vibratory field that connects all things. It has been called Akasha, Logos, primordial OM, music of the spheres, Higgs field, dark energy, and thousand other names in history. The ancient teachers taught Nada Brahma, the universe is vibration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXuTt7c3Jkg The vibratory field is at the root of all true spiritual experience and scientific investigation. It is ...

There is a more beautyful universe than that which you know as the outer World. It is the inner universe. It is the World within your own soul. You may call it Human life, or personal being, or humanity. It is the universe of Human existence. Why is Human existence what it is? Is there some great ...

Catalyst to say what has never been said, to see what has never been seen. To draw, paint, sing, sculpt, dance and act what has never before been done. To push the envelope of creativity and language and whats really important is, I call it, the felt presence of direct experience which is a fancy ...

Self-compassion is extending compassion to one's self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. Self-compassionate individuals experience greater psychological health than those who lack self-compassion. Self-compassion is positively associated with life satisfaction, wisdom, happiness, optimism, curiosity, learning goals, social connectedness, personal responsibility, and emotional resilience. At the same time, it is associated with a lower tendency ...