Michael Singer Podcast ~ The “Meaning of Life” is your own Experience

Meaning of Time Between Birth and Death

Existence vs Consciousness

Does Anything Really Exist - Rupert Spira

Open the Door

 Our daily life – going to work, coming back home, sex, quarrels, anxiety, competition – is rather superficial and empty. We are discontented, and out of this discontent we escape or do things to become contented. So our life is a very superficial, light affair. We can carry on like this until we die, and most people do, accumulating a little property, a car or two, and so on. When you see that, you say, ‘It’s all right, but it isn’t good enough.’ There is music, paintings, the mountains, the rivers, the trees, the squalor, the splendour of the sky and so on, and we say, ‘Yes, it’s all right, up to a certain point.’ Don’t you feel that you want to open a door that will give a new freshness, a new vitality, a new energy, a new beauty, a tremendous view to the whole of existence?

From Public Discussion 6, Saanen, 9 August 1964

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Thich Nhat Hanh - Depend on Your Innermost Being Alone

Beyond Buddhist ideas on interdependence, as everyday ordinary humans, we come to the essential spiritual teachings and practice. A refreshingly different perspective conversely claiming “I am indeed an island unto myself”, yet inseparable from the great ocean surrounding myself and all islands; and here I am divinely connected and take ultimate refuge. 

JDZ

2/5/22

Count Your Inner Blessings

What we call ‘pessimistic’ is often in fact just realism in response to that which is outside of our control and subject to an endless battle of will, individual and collective. It could be argued that Schopenhauer was the first philosopher in the Western world to fully grasp and teach Eastern ways. Getting back to the basics and re-learning the lost art of simple contentment with life as it is, here now.

Jdz

The Great Work of your Life

Discovering your Dharma and creating the right daily conditions to “show up” every day. The Bhagavad Gita serves as an essential guide to knowing and acting upon your highest spiritual-earthly purpose. 

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you”.

The Gospel of Thomas 

JDZ

To Thine Own Self Be True

 

Excerpts on self-actualization according to Soren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Abraham Maslow.