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Compassion Thought cannot, by any means whatsoever, cultivate compassion. I am not using that word compassion to mean the opposite, the antithesis of hate or violence. But unless each one of us has a deep sense of compassion, we shall become more and more brutal, inhuman to each other. We...

A religious man does not seek God. The religious man is concerned with the transformation of society, which is himself. The religious man is not the man that does innumerable rituals, follows traditions, lives in a dead, past culture, explaining endlessly the Bible, endlessly chanting, or taking...

Perhaps self-education begins with an individual – of any country, any race, any nationality, religion, caste, cult or community – who, by observing what is happening around him and in the world, feels the urgency to do something. But, seeing the immensity of the problem, he realizes that the...

Everything about us, within as well as without-our relationships, our thoughts, our feelings - is impermanent, in a constant state of flux. But is there anything which is permanent? Is there? Our constant desire is to make sensation permanent, is it not ? Sensation can be found again and again...

Two young men had come from the town nearby. The bus had brought them to the corner, and they had walked the rest of the way. They worked in an office, they said, and so couldn't come any earlier. They had put on fresh clothes, which the old bus hadn't soiled, and they came in smiling but rather...

MickeyDB ; The mystery of consciousness itself is fascinating and I invite you to explore deeper into these mysteries to form an appreciation for how wonderful and to take some literary license ….. "what a piece of work is man"… __________________________________________________...

It all begins with children feeling unconditionally wanted, accepted and loved. You can have everything else: a high standard of living, the most expensive school system, the finest teachers in the world; but if the children are lacking that initial experience of being unconditionally loved by...

Enlightenment is liberation from the pretense of a future. Without a future, where did the past go? It is the end of the known, and the endless exploration of the unknown!It is the end of a struggle to be anybody or do anything.It is the end of looking for anything.It is the end of trying to...

Perhaps the most difficult thing for most of us to understand is the simple, and if you examine it directly, most obvious fact that there is no such thing as a solid, separate, stable entity that I can call "myself". Nouns (labels like writer, teacher, doctor, lawyer, man, woman, human being...

We all have the ability to visualize mentally. Some find it easy, many do it only with difficulty. A good example of an expert’s skill in this art is given by a chess master playing a number of games blindfold. On the chessboard two armies of 16 pieces face each other, and the board is of 64...

I wonder why we gossip? is it because it reveals others to us? And why should others be revealed to us? Why do you want to know others? Why this extraordinary concern about others? First of all, why do we gossip? It is a form of restlessness, is it not? Like worry, it is an indication of a...

Wether it is here in the CAnadian Forum or in our society as a whole ,all the arguments ,conflicts ,violence which arise are the arguments ,violence that are in our consciousness .And in turn ,they arrive from the ego process in our consciousness.So the question is ,what is the ego.Does it...

I don't think religion is a thing put together by thought, or by fear, or by the pursuit of satisfaction and pleasure…I think when we lost touch with nature, with the universe, with the clouds, lakes, birds, when we lost touch with all that, then the priests came in. Then all the superstition...

We have never questioned the very nature of our thought. We have accepted thought as inevitable, as our eyes and legs. We have never probed to the very depth of thought, and because we have never questioned it, the thought has assumed preeminence.What is the nature of thought??

Is there such a "thing" as love when each one of us is seeking his own security,both psychological as well as worldly, outwardly? I am not talking of some love which is abstract, - an abstract idea of love has no value at all. You and I can have a lot of theories about it, but actually - the...

I think that we should consider seriously at what is taking place in the world outside of us. Let us not look at it from Canadian , American or European point of view ,or from any other national interest , but observe what is actually going on in the world.The whole world is arming, spending...

Without knowing oneself, there is no possibility of really searching out what is true, what is significant, what are the right values in life. Without self-knowledge, we cannot go beyond the self-projected illusions of the mind. Self-knowledge, , implies not only the action of relationship...

All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as...

Does life having meaning, a purpose? Is not living in itself its own purpose? Why do we want more? . . . Our difficulty is that, since our life is empty, we want to find a purpose to life and strive for it. Such a purpose of life can only be mere intellection, without any reality; when the...

As most of our education is the acquisition of knowledge, it is making us more and more mechanical: our minds are functioning along narrow grooves, whether it be scientific, philosophic, religious, business or technological knowledge that we are acquiring. Our ways of life, both at home and...