From a reader in Malaysia:

I have felt spiritually stuck for a long time.  It’s like I am in a box, suffocating with cramped thoughts and feelings. I need help. (more…)

A student from Oregon asks, “How do you make good decisions?”

According to direct realization Tantra, human beings have six senses: smelling, tasting, seeing, feeling, hearing, and mind. Yes, the mind is a sense, not the master of the senses.

These senses have gross and also many refined forms. Most people, when they try to make a decision, are accessing the gross forms of these senses. (more…)

People often want to know what they will “get” out of a practice before they begin. This is one aspect of what Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche called spiritual materialism.

Or people think they already know what it is they want. Since most people are not highly realized, any outcome they imagine or plan for is quite limited. In fact, it is simply true that you cannot know the fruit of a practice until you do it. (more…)

Anandamayi Ma once told a man to avoid taking a certain train. He couldn’t see a logical reason for changing his plans and voiced his intention not to follow her suggestion.

Ma replied: “Everything I say and everything I do has meaning.” (more…)