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IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and...
View ArticleHow much closer can we get?
Gulliver’s View Going out in the world as an individual and visiting an abandoned house gives me the sensation that I am close to those objects outside of me. I can touch them, I can smell them, I can...
View ArticleSeeking Realization
The Seeker Realization is not an action somebody accomplishes. The idea of realizing the self implies a path from an unrealized self to a realized self. Realization of the self as a goal cannot be...
View ArticleTo fill the bucket
Grasping at sense objects (a match-factory) When the mind is directed to the illusionary outside world of objects, it is prone to grasp at these objects as it has numberless concepts to distinguish...
View ArticleThe three dualities
Dear readers, As I am currently reading a truly amazing commentary about the Gospel of Thomas, I would like to quote some paragraphs of that book. The book is called “The Nondual Teachings of Christ”....
View ArticleEmpathy
The Observer Tempus Fugit… Time flies… When I watch the date of my latest post I must admit that my writing becomes very rare these times. Being too much involved into mundane concerns I find my blog...
View ArticleTo Forget the Self
The Storyteller What is the Self? Countless people have asked themselves this question and there have been numberless answers. But as these answers have all been observations expressed in words. What...
View ArticleEnlightenment
I, Awareness, cannot be enlightened. I am already the light that illumines all experience. Nor can a separate self be enlightened for when the separate self faces the light, it vanishes, just as does...
View ArticleWhen you really don’t know…
‘That what I want, basically, what I really want, is what you want. And I don’t know what you want. Surprise me. But that’s the kinship between “I” and “thou”. So when I ask, I go right down to the...
View ArticleSong of the Open Road
1 Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am...
View ArticleIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
When you see the face of anger look behind it and you will see the face of pride. Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher. There is no peace until you become...
View ArticleNepal 2015 Fundraising
Bourgandi Children Home Despite some progress in poverty reduction in recent years, Nepal remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with a Human Development Index of 0.463, placing it 157th...
View ArticleIs he, who wants to pacify the mind, himself peaceful?
The self does not need to be put to rest. It is peace itself, not at peace. Only the mind is restless. All it knows is restlessness, with its many modes and grades. The pleasant are considered...
View ArticleWe do not forget Nepal…
Remember, it was ten months ago and it happened more than 7000 kilometers away from central Europe: on April 25, a powerful earthquake and its deadly aftershocks ravaged the area of Kathmandu in...
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