Beyond Zen…

Welcome to the August 9, 2007 edition of carnival of lightwork. Published a bit early because of an upcoming trip where, gasp, I can’t take my laptop. With this being the first edition, I am extremely excited about the response as well as the posts, we have some very big bloggers joining us, I hope [...]

This article was originally published on Helium.com, to see the article, please go here. Metta: the Practice of Loving-Kindness By Kris Vockler Just about every human being goes through varied degrees of contention in a lifetime, a feeling of swimming against the current of a river. This being a form of suffering in life is, [...]

Quick praise for a great book… One of the biggest reasons I study Buddhism is to understand myself and the world better and from a certain angle, the angle I feel shows me more of the truth, through the eyes of Buddha. It’s not easy and takes some work, even lately I’ve felt as if [...]

This is an article I wrote for Helium, a freelance writing site. The article talks about Metta and is an excellent place to start this meditation practice. read more | digg story

Upeksha The concept of “Upeksha” has come up on my blog stats many times in the last few week, as a keyword on how people find this blog it’s at the top. So, I thought I’d bring up an old post I wrote, talking about a Thick Nhat Hann book on “True Love”. Upeksha – [...]

This is a first time event here at the blog, we are hosting a blog carnival on Lightworkers. If you are not familiar with a blog carnival go here and read what wikipedia says about it. Basically, to combine the best writing the blogosphere a blog carnival bring those writing together in a single post, [...]

Comprehensive Review by the expert spiritual blogger Kara-Leah of the Mastery of Meditation Website and all it offers for free to its readers. Being a fan of both Kara-Leah and Mastery of Meditation Website, a review of Mastery of Meditation by Kara-Leah. Kinda like having my cake and eating too! Both sites are wonderful and [...]

Today I want to let everyone know of another site I spend time reading and using; anmolmehta.com “Devoted to the Mastery of Meditation, Enlightenment & Kundalini Yoga”. I’ve posted before how exciting it is to see someone put their dream out there, such as a yoga studio, and have the vision and drive to keep [...]

And how the monkey brain swings from tree to tree…This is one of my favorite topics because it’s the one most difficult part of being a human, in my humble opinion. Granted, if I had less of the basic needs taken care of I might say differently but from my perspective this is the big [...]

Another great post and point from one of the blogs I read: The Most Critical Tool for Progressing On Your Spiritual Journey. Through a Zen Meditation story, Anmol Mehta brings an important story about asking the right questions as your most critical tool for your spiritual journey. Asking questions is how we learn, ask the [...]