Life is Relationship

Our dependence on Technology is increasing to stay in touch with each other through internet and mobile phones. We have made tremendous technological progress in medicine, agriculture, telecommunications, and so on.
Is technological progress taking us in the right direction especially when we examine the food that we eat. The food that we eat is [...]

False ideas must produce dissonance. False ideas are based on ignorance and convenience. Falseness is based on self-fulfilling prophecy. One sees only what one wants to see and hears what ones to hear.
To maintain false ideas in the mind is truly hard work. It is a strain on the mind to shut out truth and [...]

 
 A Lizard ran out on a rock and looked up, listening
No doubt to the sounding of spheres
And what a dandy fellow! the right toss of chin for you
And swirl of a tail
If men were as much men as lizards are lizards
They’d be worth looking at
                                                           -D.H. Lawrence
Men can imagine what they were supposed to be
But [...]

It is not very hard to see that self-centeredness is at the root of human problems.  It is, however, not easy to reveal to oneself the true nature of the ‘self’, the ‘me’, the ‘ego’.  Ignorance about the nature of the self exists because of lack of awareness.  There cannot be awareness when the mind [...]

Let a relaxed mind travel extensively over human affairs, from his own troubles to international issues he will find that the problems are inextricably interwoven.   It will become immediately clear that the remedies which are being applied from different angles are really of no avail.  A clear of view of the panorama of human misery [...]

In the animal kingdom, a leader’s role is to organize and launch a hunt, to organize and implement community outings for food-foraging, to provide collateral safety for its pack from its predators, etc. Our human society, hard-wired to this behavior acquired in its remote past, has morphed this over time to take care of its [...]

In response to Joe Haskins comments, posted under the article Man Made God I had stated that any action based on idea, belief or an ideology creates division.  Thought cultivates prejudice, opinion and judgment and these create division.  Joe feels that thought also has been used for the betterment of society.  Leaders like Gandhi, Martin [...]

Power of Brain and Mind
In a magazine I read an article by Dr. Ben Carson, Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery at John Hopkins Children’ Center.  He described the incredible complexity and power of the human brain.  He said, “one characteristic of the brain in particular makes us essential human and distinguishes our brains from those [...]

One picks up the morning paper and he finds that so many terrible things are happening in different parts of the world.  There is enormous confusion, violence, brutalities, the wars, terrorism and endless division caused by organized religions and nations that are driven by their own interest.  There are divisions within the same religious groups [...]

A person who is really interested to find out if there is something sacred in life, something that is eternal, beyond matter and beyond cause and effect must ask himself the following questions:
Am I, the seeker, different from what I am seeking?  How do I define the two separate entities, the “me” and “God”?
What is [...]