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Understanding Pain Nurturing Love

Understanding pain is vital if we wish to bring relief to useless suffering. To reduce useless pain is nurturing to love.  But what does that actually mean?     We should understand two sources of suffering.

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The Relevance of Kabir, Video Interview with author Todd Vickers

Sounds Within and Pasadena Media Presents L.V. Smith asks Todd Vickers questions about his latest book The Relevance of Kabir. Topics include meditation, breaking habits, and our powers of conception.

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book tour

Todd talks on spiritual experience

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.

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Lamakaan discussion on spiritual experience

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 […]