Modern man in search of a soul
By Carl Gustav Jung

“Mindfulness” is the English transla­tion of the Pali word sati. Sati is an activity. What ex­actly is that? There can be no precise answer, at least not in words. Words are devised by the symbolic levels of the mind, and they describe those realities with which symbolic thinking deals. Mindfulness is pre-symbolic. It is not shackled to logic. Nevertheless, mindfulness can be experienced—rather easily—and it can be de­scribed, as long as you keep in mind that the words are only fingers pointing at the moon. They are not the thing itself. The actual experi­ence lies beyond the words and above the symbols. Mindfulness could be described in completely different terms than will be used here, and each description could still be correct.

“Our Level of Consciousness Determines Our Personal Reality” – The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita

Part 42 – Chapter 2, Stanza 17. The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda as remembered by his disciple, Swami Kriyananda. This book shares the profound insights of Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, as remembered by one of his few remaining direct disciples, Swami Kriyananda.

Ask Deepak: Is There a Right Way to Meditate?

Each week, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra responds to Oprah.com users’ questions with enlightening advice to help them live their best lives.

Q: I am learning about living a more spiritual life. I am slowly realizing my connection with God. I attempted meditation and had a beautiful, frightening experience. It was beautiful because it was the most beautiful light and a promise that I will have everything I most want and frightening because this light and this love came from within me and without me. I don’t believe this is a “normal” meditative experience, and it’s kept me from attempting meditation since. I’m intimidated by this experience, and though I consider it a good experience, I am concerned what may happen next time. I am concerned for

Vajra Guru (Padmasambhava) Mantra – Tibetan Buddhism

Mental Hindrances

It is important for the meditator to have a thorough knowledge of the Five Nivarana, or the Five Mental Hindrances, since they cloud the mind, cause suffering, and are the worst enemies of Samadhi.

The mind in its natural state is extremely pure (pabhassara) and free from hindrances. However, it has been clouded because of the visiting defilements. As the Buddha has said,

Surah Rahman – Beautiful and Heart trembling Quran recitation by Syed Sadaqat Ali

Download the video from here:

http://www.al-masumeen.com/quran/syed…

THE RECITOR IS SADAQAT ALI

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said:
‘Everything has a bride, and the bride of the Qur’an is Surrah Al Rahman’

The Holy Prophet has also said:
“Whoever reads it, Allah will have mercy on his weakness and be regarded as having thanked Allah for it”

The Dhammapada: the Buddha’s path of wisdom
By Acharya Buddharakkhita

The most beloved Buddhist classic of all time, the Dhammapada is an anthology of over 400 verses on the ethics, meditation, and wisdom of Buddhism. This translation by a long-term student of the work transmits the spirit and content as well as the style of the original.

Mool Mantra

ik-oNkaar sat naam kartaa purakh nirbha-o nirvair akaal moorat ajoonee saibhaN gur parsaad.

One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying, Beyond Birth, Self-Existent. By Guru’s Grace ~

The Yoga Sutras of Patańjali By Patańjali

One of yoga’s most important and influential works, this classic forms a keystone of Indian philosophical and religious thought.

The five aggregates: understanding Theravāda psychology and soteriology
By Mathieu Boisvert, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion

“If Buddhism denies a permanent self, how does it perceive identity?” According to Buddhist texts, the entire universe, including the individual, is made up of different phenomena, which Buddhism classifies into different categories: what we conventionally call a “person” can be

Ram Dass: Seva Foundation

Ram Dass speaks about founding the Seva Foundation along with Wavy Gravy, Larry Brilliant and others. This is a good charity organization that will use your donations to help the needy all around the world. If you have some monies you would like to help needy with, I encourage you to donate to this organization. This is Love in action! Namaste!

http://www.seva.org/site/PageServer

The Brahmavâdin, Volume 4

Thoughts without a thinker: psychotherapy from a Buddhist perspective
By Mark Epstein

Thoughts Without a Thinker is the landmark book that brought the worlds of Buddhism and psychotherapy into contact with each other, and changed thousands of lives. Drawing upon his own experience as therapist, meditator, and patient, Mark Epstein, a New York-based psychiatrist trained in classical Freudian methods, integrates Western psychotherapy and the teachings of Buddhism.In accessible, intimate

The Ten Perfections

In the early centuries after the Buddha’s passing away, as Buddhism became a popular religion, the idea was formalized that there were three paths to awakening to choose from: the path to awakening as a disciple of a Buddha (s›vaka); the path to awakening as a private Buddha (pacceka-buddha), i.e., one who attained awakening on his own but was not able to teach the path of practice to others; and the path to awakening as a Rightly Self-awakened Buddha (samm› sambuddha). Each path was defined as consisting of perfections (p›ramı) of character,

Cultivating wisdom, transforming “Mano”

Cultivating wisdom, transforming “Mano” from Plum Village on Vimeo.

Peace All Over The World

We met Robert Bradley while shooting our first film, “Playing for Change: A Cinematic Discovery of Street Music.” Robert is originally from Detroit, Michigan, but we filmed this song in Los Angeles in front of a Playing For Change graffiti wall painted by a local artist. We had just finished a take of Robert singing “Playing For Change Blues,” a song we created while filming across America, and were beginning to interview him. All of a sudden he started speaking the lyrics to this song… We immediately grabbed another mic for his guitar, plugged it directly into the camera and asked him to perform it for us. Enjoy!

ShimShai Communion

Lokah Samasta by Miten and Deva Premal

Lokah Samasta Sukino Bhavantu… Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi…

I wanted to make a video that showed our universal common ground. We all experience birth and death, we celebrate new beginnings and mourn our losses, we all labor in some way and we all feel a deep urge to create, we have a deep seated need for beauty and dread of what is not… Children, Women, Marriages, Births, all manner of Work, all manner of Art, all manner of Worship, Spiritual Elders and simple peasants, Death and Mourning… silent moments of prayer or thought… Somehow these ways in which we share our most human emotions and experiences – that which becomes archetypal and mythic – these form the seeds of our Divinity. May those seeds bear fruit in your spirit. Peace to all, happiness to all, Grace be in your heart, no matter your path!

An original home-made video for the sacred chant Lokah Samasta as recorded by Miten and Deva Premal:
From the cd “Soul in Wonder” from White Swan Records copyright 2007