Category: The Teaching in Brief

The dream of self almost works. It almost explains things. But the misalignment—between what we deeply are and what the dream assumes—keeps resurfacing. Because the

When we take the diverse phenomena of experience as a single whole and call it “world,” this seems perfectly normal. After all, everyone does it.

If the mind seeks rest, it has forgotten where true rest is found. The mind is a tool of the Self, not the Self itself,

For enquiry to penetrate deeply, it must be accompanied by non-judgement. The impurities we uncover should not immediately be disparaged. If every unflattering discovery is

If we don’t like what we see in ourselves or, for that matter, what we see in this strife-ridden world, then let us be the

The one goal sought by all, yet attained by few, is lasting and meaningful happiness. We continually pursue fulfilment, but regularly search for it outwardly—in

When we consider that the egoic project is never finished—when we consider that the sense of a separate self must continually be reinforced through thoughts,

Fighting with our failing means being preoccupied with shortcomings, trying to appear as someone else, someone better, thinking we need something from outside to improve

If we imagine we are permanently handicapped by adverse karmic conditions and thus incapable of the feats of saints and sages of old, we remember

In his How Much Land Does a Man Truly Need?, Tolstoy offers a vivid illustration. Pakhom is promised as much land as he can walk