Nov 25, 2013
Last time we looked at the emotional hole that each of us is carrying around inside and how we chase fears and anxieties about things that do not exist in an effort to fill up this hole. In this episode, we will look at how do we take apart this emotional hole? The key is understanding how the different virtues...
Oct 8, 2013
A few episodes back I quoted Ghandi, the great Indian leader and philosopher. Ghandi had once said that the greatest freedom we could achieve is not political or economic, but freedom from the fear in our minds. In this episode we explore what Ghandi may have meant.
A crucial step toward freedom from fear is...
Sep 4, 2013
Last time we looked at the question, to what are we ultimately committed in our journey of spiritual transformation. I had suggested that we should be committed to a specific process of spiritual transformation. But this runs into a problem very quickly. There are many competing traditions of...
Aug 15, 2013
In our journey of spiritual transformation, to what are we ultimately committed? Many people would answer that question by saying "My ultimate commitment is to God," but what does that mean in concrete terms? We look at three possibilites of things to which we might be ultimately committed: beliefs, institutions...
Jul 24, 2013
Why bother with spirituality at all? It seems that many, even most people do not bother with it. Why work so hard at such things as humility, compassion and self-control when these do not seem to be valued by society? I offer a couple of reasons why we should pursue spirituality.
First, imagine what our...