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Advice On How To Die Well Updated: 2010-01-27 23:40:31 Description: Lama Marut reveals how to prepare yourself and others for death with compassion, forgiveness and generosity. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in Essex, Massachusetts February 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to La...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Noblesse Oblige: The Cause of The Good Life Updated: 2010-01-21 19:15:24 Description: Lama Marut explains how those of us who believe we're leading a good life must help others because our past generosity is the exact cause of the life we enjoy today. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in Essex, Massachusetts February 200...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Equalizing Self and Others Updated: 2009-12-30 00:36:31 Description: Lama Marut teaches one of the great classics of the “lojong” tradition, instructions on how to “develop the good heart.” Breaking down our selfishness begins with the recognition that everyone’s claim to happiness is equal, and yours is no...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Overcoming Obstacles to Happiness Updated: 2009-12-21 20:30:54 Description: We need to work hard for our spiritual goals but we are hindered by our laziness – in the form either of indolence or excessive business – our attraction to bad things, and our low self esteem. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in Lo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Changing the Past Updated: 2009-12-11 01:08:48 Description: The only past that exists is a part of our present mind, and that can certainly be changed. To live a happier present, we must change our idea of the past by practicing the virtue of forgiveness. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in Jun...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Compassion for Those Who Harm Updated: 2009-11-25 02:58:47 Description: Lama Marut here explains why the proper, human response to people who hurt you is not anger or the desire for vengeance but rather compassion. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in June 2009 at the Three Jewels in Tucson, Arizona. Write ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Practicing Forgiveness and Patience Updated: 2009-11-03 02:21:21 Description: In order to achieve perfect patience – the opposite of anger -- and forgiveness, we have to practice these virtues in little ways all day long. And since praise and fame can be major distractions, could we say that those who defame us are really ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD How Happy Are You? Updated: 2009-10-10 05:39:30 Description: Your relative happiness is the real gauge of spiritual progress. The first steps to perfect happiness are to recognize the unhappiness we presently live with and have become inured to. And when we begin to see the results of even a little practice,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Contentment is Being Happy, Here and Now Updated: 2009-09-10 03:51:45 Description: For most of us most of the time, things are actually alright. So why aren’t we content with the present? Instead, we are spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about the imaginary future or cultivating resentment about a past which is don...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Happiness Revolution Updated: 2009-07-30 02:59:31 Description: Which part of you doesn’t want to be happy? Lama Marut here reviews the forces – internal and external – that are keeping us from true happiness. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in June, 2009, at the Three Jewels in Tucson, Ariz...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ignorance: Public Enemy #1 Updated: 2009-07-05 04:28:49 Description: Ignorance is the root of all our mental afflictions, leading us to believe that other people can make us either unhappy or happy. Lama Marut here encourages us to take back the power over our own happiness and to realize that it is never in our real...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Learning to be a Spiritual Warrior Updated: 2009-06-22 22:45:12 Description: Lama Marut here discusses several of the qualities of a spiritual warrior – learning to live an ethical life so as to change your conception of the kind of person you are, and developing patience in the face of provocation. This videocast is taken...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wake Up and Turn it Off Updated: 2009-05-26 20:45:37 Description: Lama Marut here urges us to stop being diverted (through watching television, for example, over four hours a day on average) and remember our real purpose and mission. This videocast is taken from a teaching given at the annual Windhover retreat in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Relax into the Insecurity Updated: 2009-06-01 06:36:19 Description: Real renunciation means giving up suffering and its causes. We can start by not continually putting our eggs in the wrong baskets and, realizing there is no certainty in secular things, relaxing about change itself. This videocast is taken from a t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Meditation and Wisdom Updated: 2009-06-12 05:34:51 Description: Learning how to meditate and developing wisdom about how the world is really working are, according to the Buddhist texts, altruistic and compassionate activities. If you want to change the world you have to understand that the only way to do it is ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Chain of Pain Updated: 2009-05-12 06:31:21 Description: Lama Marut reviews the cause and effect “chain of pain.” It starts with the ignorant seeds we carry into this life from previous lives which then ripen and forces us to think of things ignorantly and react to them ignorantly – which causes us ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What Goes Around, Comes Around Updated: 2009-05-18 15:36:14 Description: Why do things happen the way they do to us? Lama Marut here goes through specific correlations between karmic cause and effect and the general principles behind them, and then urges us to learn to take responsibility for everything that occurs in ou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Working Hard for True Happiness Updated: 2009-04-28 05:10:04 Description: Lama Marut here advises us to work at least as hard for our spiritual goals as we do for our professional advancement, money, or relationships. He reviews the three obstacles that stand in our way: laziness, attraction to bad things, and low self-e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Learn to Float Updated: 2009-05-04 02:56:03 Description: Lama Marut here advises us to “relax into the insecurity” of life. Everything is changing and impermanent, and a little bit of wisdom about this goes a long way in aid of a happier life. This videocast is taken from a teaching given at the ann...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Karmic Correlations Updated: 2009-04-21 03:16:09 Description: Lama Marut here reviews the various kinds of karmic consequences of our actions, providing specific correlations between causes and effects. This videocast is taken from a teaching given at The Waldorf School, Los Angeles, in December of 2007. Writ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD CD’s and the 1st Arya Truth Updated: 2009-04-16 03:08:16 Description: The Buddha’s very first teaching is that life is suffering. When we are in the midst of a disaster, we know this. But it’s in between disasters that we have to remember that every good thing we obtain – ranging from our new CD or pair of shoe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Truth is Paradoxical Updated: 2009-04-09 08:17:59 Description: A religious practitioner must have a high degree of tolerance for cognitive dissonance, for the truth often seems to us (ignorant ones) as paradoxical. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in Los Angeles, in November 2007. Write to us at: ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Working Hard (Happily) for Your Spiritual Goals Updated: 2009-03-30 03:21:40 Description: One of the biggest obstacles to a spiritual life is laziness. Lama Marut here relays advice on how to overcome the inertia that keeps us from working hard, and with “joyful effort,” for our spiritual goals. This videocast is taken from a teachi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eliminating An Irritating Person Updated: 2009-03-24 23:49:00 Description: Lama Marut reviews the three steps of breaking the cycle of responding with irritation to an irritating person. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in Rockport, Massachusetts, in August of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To sub...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD A Daily Practice Updated: 2009-03-19 18:14:57 Description: What are the components of a good daily practice? Lama Marut reviews the basics, including meditation every morning, checking your morality all day long, doing something for others, and daily study of a sacred text. This videocast is taken from a t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Re-Identity Yourself Updated: 2009-03-11 03:04:50 Description: A very important spiritual practice is to simply re-identify ourselves – as a kind, compassionate, happy person instead of a suffering schmuck. Additionally, when we encounter others we have a choice between two unconfirmable assumptions. The oth...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Practicing for Showtime Updated: 2009-02-15 00:20:55 Description: All our life is practice for death. At death we will lose everything, so practicing for it is a matter of detaching from the things and people we can’t keep. This videocast is taken from from the annual Windhover retreat in Rockport, Massachuset...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Three Problems of the Starbuck Cup Updated: 2009-02-28 04:34:50 Description: Lama Marut talks about how to be a good student by avoiding three typical problems: thinking you have nothing to learn, improper motivation, and having the teaching go in one ear and out the other. This videocast is taken from a teaching given at ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Learning to Be a Spiritual Warrior Updated: 2009-02-11 05:23:44 Description: Stop playing footsies with samsara! Practice the bodhisattva’s way of life instead. Be a “saint in training” and train yourself in the perfection of giving -- especially in the form of the gift of love, protection from fear, and the gift of t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Creator Gods in the Making Updated: 2009-02-02 16:59:15 Description: Because all things, without exception, are empty of self-nature, the world around us exists only as a projection. In this videocast, Lama Marut proves that things can’t exist “out there” at all. Because things are coming from us and not at us...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Happiness is Freedom Updated: 2009-01-27 05:05:39 Description: We are enchained by our things, our possessions, our plans. Freedom comes from living happily in the present and letting go of the attachments that are causing us to suffer – especially our present sense of who we think we are. This videocast is...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Slouching Towards Happiness Updated: 2009-01-20 02:51:38 Description: When religions talk about the need for "renunciation," what's meant is renouncing pain and suffering. Religion should be fun, and should lead to the "funnest." Lama Marut here argues that good spiritual practitioners "slouching toward happiness." ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Filtering the World Through Our Subjective Apparatus Updated: 2009-01-12 17:13:26 Description: The appearance of things as if they existed apart from our perception of them is an illusion. Wisdom begins with honesty. We must admit that we are not and cannot be objective. Everything is filtered through our subjective perceptual apparatus, w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Abortion, Euthanasia, and the Impossibility of Living Without Killing Updated: 2009-01-06 05:54:22 Description: While the Buddhist text state that both abortion and euthanasia involve negative karma, the intention is critical. If one truly believes that a foetus is not a living being, for example, the karma of abortion is less serious than otherwise. Lama Ma...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Specialists in Happiness Updated: 2008-12-18 08:01:34 Description: The authentic, time-tested spiritual traditions are the only real specialists in happiness. If you’re not getting happier practicing your spiritual life, you’re not doing it right. This videocast is taken from the annual Windhover retreat in Ro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eliminating an Irritating Person Updated: 2008-11-20 04:20:24 Description: We can get rid of the irritating people in our lives. In this videocast, Lama Marut goes through the three steps for doing so: run away, just take it without retaliation, and finally, feel nothing but love and feel compassion for the (formally) irr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Be Happy, Be Grateful Updated: 2008-11-20 04:32:27 Description: Lama Marut advises us here to cultivate gratitude in order to live a happier life. If we just pay attention a bit, well see how much others are doing for us all the time. And feeling grateful is a very potent method for combating low self-esteem. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Road to Bliss Updated: 2008-11-20 05:07:59 Description: Consumer capitalism will not bring the happiness we are seeking in it. It is only the spiritual traditions that are teaching the true road to bliss: learning to live a life of compassion and altruism toward others. But in order to get to the goal, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Your Real Enemies Updated: 2008-10-27 02:24:52 Description: Your real enemies are not external. They are the mental afflictions, and disturbing your peace of mind is their very nature. In this videocast Lama Marut talks about the top three mental afflictions ignorance, ignorant liking, and ignorant disl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Things Exist Only When They Are Known Updated: 2008-10-13 01:27:25 Description: The great Buddhist philosophy Arya Nagarjuna proved that things arent out there waiting to be discovered. Things exist when they are known and not until. And, conversely, we dont exist until and unless we interact with the world. Subjects an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Big False Causality Updated: 2008-10-19 22:47:51 Description: While we embrace causality as the explanation for why things happen, the causality we believe in is false. The principal way we mistake false causality for the true causes of things is thinking that the way we achieve our own happiness is worrying a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Committing Karmic Suicide Updated: 2008-06-16 04:30:34 Description: When we dont have enough karma to get what we want without depriving others, we should commit karmic suicide. Instead of pushing the karmic envelope, let it ride; let others go first or have what you wanted. Sacrificing what you want creates the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What if God was One of Us Updated: 2008-07-13 21:33:36 Description: There are enlightened beings all around us, trying to help us. But the way they help us is to teach us how to help ourselves. And so one of the most obvious manifestations of the divine in our lives is in the form of our teachers who are doing the ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Disturbing Your Worldview Updated: 2008-07-13 21:33:50 Description: Does cigarette smoking cause lung cancer? Does exercise bring health and longevity? Does medicine cure disease? In this videocast, Lama Marut points out that a cause is something that brings about its effect all the time, for everyone. The real c...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Freedom from Karma Updated: 2008-07-06 20:24:26 Description: Can we ever be freed from karma? In Eastern texts, freedom often means freedom from the illusion of a concrete entity we call ourselves. Karma is stored in our present conceptualisation of ourselves. If we could learn how to change our underst...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Pride in Intelligence Updated: 2008-07-13 21:40:26 Description: While our intellect is a great gift, we must be careful to avoid pride in our intelligence which, like our money or good looks, we will inevitably lose sooner or later. Pride blocks us from learning in general, and in our spiritual life it is one of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Resuscitating the God We Have Killed Updated: 2008-07-19 18:50:34 Description: We are living in a radically secular time and place, where nothing is special. Within a world where nothing is sacred, we must rediscover the possibility of the miraculous, especially in the form of our teachers. But we can only see what we have the...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is There Anything Good About Suffering? Updated: 2008-08-21 22:02:34 Description: Are there any advantages to suffering? All experiences bad and good that have happened to us in the past were necessary to makes us the people we are now. We can begin to have a healthier attitude toward past and present suffering by cultivatin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Recognizing Suffering in Order to Be Happy Updated: 2008-09-09 17:16:35 Description: Our experience of the world is only an interpretation, but why do I interpret the world the way I do? Interpretations are forced upon us by karma, by how weve treated others in the past, and because we have been selfish instead of compassionate we ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Waking Up To Reality Updated: 2008-09-10 18:45:55 Description: Most modern people arent actually interested in what is real; were too busy with our entertainment and games. Were addicted to our own unhappiness and ignorance and resist the very things that would overthrow them. To counter these tendencies we...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Overcoming the Blockage of Pride Updated: 2008-09-21 19:50:22 Description: One of the most powerful motivations to overcome our pride and take ourselves to a spiritual teacher is when we have a personal disaster, when it becomes clear that life is indeed suffering and that we actually need help. There is no refuge or prote...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Emptiness of the Cup, Part One Updated: 2008-09-27 14:04:26 Description: The world can be divided into subjects, objects, and the relationship between them. None of them has any self-existence; they are all empty. If objects like a cup existed the way they seemed to, they would be out there, on their own, with some ki...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Emptiness of the Cup, Part Two Updated: 2008-10-04 05:33:31 Description: Objects in the world have to be projections of wholes on the basis of parts. But that process of projection cant exist the way it seems to either we would never finish projecting even one cup. Projections themselves are projections! Wisdom star...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Being in the World But Not of It Updated: 2008-06-08 19:33:23 Description: The Bhagavad Gita teaches us how to act properly in a messy, imperfect world. First and foremost, we must understand the real principles of causality which is one element of what the Gita calls karma yoga. Everything is in the nexus of causalit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Selfless Action Updated: 2008-05-26 05:59:10 Description: Karma yoga in the Bhagavad Gita means, among other things, selfless action learning how to act in the world without creating negative karmic consequences or repercussions. How do we do this? Primarily through selfless action compassion action...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Enlightened Self-Interest Updated: 2008-05-18 06:09:32 Description: Doing something for others preferably anonymously everyday is one of the secrets of happiness. Helping others is actually the best thing we can do for ourselves. Altruistic behavioir is the cause of our own happiness and is therefore in our en...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Smackdown With Anger Updated: 2008-05-11 05:20:19 Description: It is possible to eradicate anger entirely. But its not easy. We need to have a smackdown with anger to overcome it. Lama Marut here tells us how to do this in three steps: 1) at first, youll need to just run away, that is, get yourself out ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Ten Commandments of Karma Yoga Updated: 2008-05-04 23:30:37 Description: At the very foundation of what the Bhagavad Gita calls karma yoga is understanding the grossest level of karmic management: dont kill, dont steal, dont commit adultery, etc. We must become masters of morality; we cant practice more advanced fo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Our Infinite Potential Updated: 2008-04-27 03:33:18 Description: Because things are empty of self-nature, both the perception of ourselves and that of the world around us are infinitely perfectible. Our sense of ourselves (that little inner voice we are forced to listen to) and of the world around us are both f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Finding Your Teacher Updated: 2008-04-22 17:13:13 Description: What qualities should you look for in a spiritual teacher? Lama Marut reviews the list: You should have a strong attraction to them and they should be happy (since thats what you want them to teach you!). They should be ethical, good at meditatio...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Learning to be Happy, Part 1 Updated: 2007-06-28 20:38:03 Description: In this inaugural videocast, Lama Marut points out that our deepest desire, the only motivator of everything we do, is to be happy. But we often mistake true happiness for something ephemeral and superficial. True happiness cannot be found in money...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Learning to be Happy, Part 2 Updated: 2007-08-19 13:27:50 Description: Problems do not objectively exist. They are just interpretations of events. In order to be happy we have to learn how to concentrate on the many good things in life, realize that happiness can not come from outside of us but only from within, and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Running With Scissors Updated: 2007-11-16 10:29:37 Description: We cant achieve the happiness we all are seeking if we continue to create the causes for suffering. We have to let go of the scissors with which we are cutting ourselves; we have to renounce the idea that our happiness (or unhappiness) comes from a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Obstacles to Working Hard for Happiness Updated: 2007-12-11 08:04:19 Description: Why arent we doing the things in life we know are the most important? Whats preventing us from developing the joyful effort we need to progress in our spiritual lives? The main obstacle to working hard, happily, for real and lasting happiness i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Three Spiritual Practices Updated: 2007-12-15 02:10:43 Description: In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the classic texts in the history of religions, Lord Krishna teaches us three different but interrelated spiritual practices: the discipline of ones actions (karma yoga), of wisdom (jnyana yoga), and of devotion (bhakti y...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Gitas Three Yogas and Buddhism Updated: 2008-01-01 03:48:45 Description: The Bhagavad Gita is linked to the early texts of the Indian Mahayana Buddhist traditions by its emphasis on the three yogas of devotion, compassionate action, wisdom, and devotion or bhakti. In Buddhism, the pan-Indian devotional movement found ex...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Obstacles to Working Hard for Happiness, Part 2 Updated: 2008-01-04 20:31:17 Description: Lama Marut continues the delineation of the main obstacles to working hard, happily, for real and lasting happiness. Attraction to things that are bad or bad habits means, among other things, watching TV instead of spending time more profitably. ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Laws of Karma, Part 1 Updated: 2008-01-15 21:37:18 Description: The Bhagavad Gita states, No action in this world goes for naught, or brings about a contrary result. Actions of selflessness and altruism toward others can bring nothing other than goodness to you, and actions of selfishness and harm to others can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Laws of Karma, Part 2 Updated: 2008-02-04 05:23:44 Description: Lama Marut discusses the three worldviews we use to explain how and why things happen to us in life. #1. Things happen for no reason. #2. God is micromanaging the Universe. Or #3. Everything is in the web of causality. We conveniently mix and match t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Religious Teacher, Part 1 Updated: 2008-02-10 06:36:17 Description: God can be understood to be a transcendent figure, outside of us, or as very close, right here in our lives. In the Bhagavad Gita, God is presented as Krishna, the guru and close friend of His devotee, Arjuna. We too can have an intimate relationsh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Why Consumer Capitalism Wont Make You Happy Updated: 2008-02-19 04:48:36 Description: The purpose of a spiritual path is to lead the practitioner to happiness. The authentic and time-tested traditions work they deliver the goods. But the false religion of consumer capitalism cannot bring the happiness we seek in it, and we are liv...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD True Happiness and the Fact of Suffering Updated: 2008-02-24 01:09:24 Description: The spiritual path is meant to lead to freedom, liberation from suffering and unhappiness. But until we are enlightened, we dont really know what true happiness would feel like. We are entrenched in suffering, no matter how materially comfortab...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD The Religious Teacher, Part 2 Updated: 2008-03-02 06:09:42 Description: Can we prove that our spiritual teacher or guru is an Enlightened Being? Do we really know for sure, somehow, that our teacher is not a Buddha? Our preconceptions about what an Enlightened Being should look like prevent us from seeing our teacher f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Taking Advantage of Your Miraculous Life Updated: 2008-03-08 11:24:06 Description: We are living miraculous lives, but what are we doing with them? We are mostly taking them for granted instead of taking full advantage of our amazing opportunity. We have are living the lives that millions of traditional practitioners have prayed ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What is the RealSecret? Updated: 2008-03-15 12:26:06 Description: The real secret to obtaining true happiness is not just wanting it. We have to create the causes for it. Being happy is not a trivial goal. It is the precondition to being able to be compassionate toward others. And the only way to be happy is to...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Is It a Pen or a Chew Toy? Updated: 2008-03-25 15:51:17 Description: Reality can be divided into how things appear and how things really are. Things exist deceptively in that they appear differently from how they really are. It seems that things are out there, independently and objectively. But actually they ar...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Reaching Ecstasy Updated: 2008-04-05 06:53:55 Description: Many people in the Western world seem to have forgotten that true goal of every spiritual tradition is the highest happiness bliss or ecstasy. Every authentic spiritual path leads to this goal, and on the way to that goal the practitioner should b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD What Forgiving Is and Isnt Updated: 2008-04-12 02:56:41 Description: We cannot be happy while carrying grudges and resentments about what others have done to us in the past. We must forgive them unilaterally and pre-emptively. In order to do this, we have to understand what forgiveness is and isnt. It isnt just...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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