Let us differentiate the inestimable benefits of accumulated knowledge from the tendency to hold fast to the past out of fear of the unknown. The beliefs we cling to, particularly about ourselves, are a denial of the growth of knowledge. When our habits have a stronger impact on us than facts, we are in danger […]
We need not alter our actions and the lives of others by deferring to imagined fears. Nothing obligates us to believe or obey any thought in our mind, even our most deeply ingrained habits. To grasp this fact develops in us a conscious sense of freedom. This includes freedom from how we know ourselves. […]
When we begin to see the harm of unfounded beliefs and start questioning them, we start to see the world differently. It’s more than being in the unknown, it’s an adventure!
“We live in a vastness much broader than our imagined limits and this includes our sexual beliefs. When we let go of our ideas of ‘self’, we are not bound to the limits of such an arbitrary ‘self’. That same ‘self’ would have an entirely different set of beliefs about intimate relationships if we grew […]
When our dream is love, we feel passions like sexual desire. When our dreams become nightmares, the fear engulfs us. We may forget the same mind that dreams at night is active while awake in a different way. While awake, our consciousness includes the sensations of the world and the affective power of our mind […]
Our desires can make us more conscious or less. The less conscious we are, the more we rely on preconceived ideas, habits and unfounded beliefs.
The pros and cons of spiritual experience with reference to the poet Kabir at Lamakaan in Hyderabad, India. In the wood where lions don’t tread and birds don’t fly, Kabir ranges in empty meditation. Why empty meditation? Why did Kabir reject rights and ceremonies.
Film director V.V. Raju (left) and Dr. Chiranjeevi Kolluri (right) met author Todd Vickers at the recent India talks. They met again to discuss a new film about the life of Kabir. Mr. Raju made a film about Kabir thirty years ago, but wants to create a remake in three languages Telugu, Urdu, and English. The new movie will more in tune […]
Spiritual experience in the light of Kabir The talk by author Todd Vickers involved some of Kabir’s most skeptical poems and his rejection of rites and ceremonies. Gorakh was yoga’s connoisseur. They didn’t cremate his body. Still his meat rotted and mixed with dust. For nothing he polished his body. We discussed the mistake of creating an […]
Talks – Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad The imagined self. Arbitrary limits. Mind inducing feeling. Meditation. Thanks to Chandra Kotaru and Ashwini Koppisetti for making the event not only possible but a success. Video of this talk coming soon!