Can Knowing My True Nature Help Me Navigate Painful Emotions?
by Rupert Spira: A woman asks if discovering her true nature will help her during times of emotional difficulty… […]
The Hugging Saint – Amma
by David Amsden: A guru named Amma has drawn 40 million people into her embrace – spreading a message of love, compassion and overpriced merchandise… […]
Awaken Interviews Leonard Jacobson – Align Our Individual Awakening With Our Responsibility To The Planet
David Welch: Before we begin, I just wanted to let the Awaken community know how important Leonard Jacobson is to me, personally. […]
Awaken Interviews David R. Hawkins – The Divinity of All That Is Silently Shines Forth
Awaken: David, I want to first thank you for so generously agreeing to spend this time with us today… […]
Awaken Interviews Lama Palden Pt 2 – Female and Male Energy In Full and Complete Awakening
Donna Quesada: How did you come to this path, Lama Palden? As a Tibetan, you have all of these unbelievable title appendages. […]
Awaken Interviews Lama Palden Pt 1 – Discover Our Unchanging Nature
Donna Quesada: Hi! First of all, how do I address you? Is it just Lama Palden? […]
Awaken Interviews Alan Watts – The Goal and Fulfillment of All Living Is The Immediate Now
Awaken: it might sound sentimental, but meeting you and having this time with you, is a crowning moment for me. […]
Startup Wants Displaced Coal Miners To Staff EV Battery Plant
by John Engel: A cobalt-free lithium-ion battery manufacturing startup wants to hire displaced coal miners to staff a gigafactory it plans to build in West Virginia… […]
Setting the Record Straight on D.T. Suzuki
In the summer of 1998, Tricycle covered Brian Victoria’s Zen at War, an indictment of the Japanese Zen community’s […]
Daisetz Suzuki Remembered
by Edward Hoffman: Despite the gloomy global economy, the field of positive psychology is booming. […]
Swedenborg’s Influence on Suzuki
“For you Westerners, it is Swedenborg who is your Buddha, it is he who should be read and followed!” – D. T. Suzuki […]
Strengthening Your Bones
One of the great legacies of the ancient Taoist masters of China has been the practices for regenerating the bone marrow through a series of simple breathing exercises… […]
Are You Impeccable With Your Word?
The first and most profound of don Miguel’s Four Agreements is Be Impeccable with Your Word… […]
Awaken Interviews Ram Dass – Pure Awareness
Awaken: It is an honor and a privilege to spend this time with you. I have admired your work and your mission since Be Here Now! […]
Why Did Thoreau Take The Bhagavad Gita To Walden Pond?
by Barbara Stoler Miller: The ascetic, mystical love of nature that brought Thoreau to Walden Pond gave him access to the central teaching of the Gita… […]
The Mind-Heart Of The Buddha
by Kaira Jewel Lingo: At the core of Mahayana Buddhism, explains Kaira Jewel Lingo, is bodhichitta, the bodhisattvas’ enlightened aspiration to save all sentient beings… […]
21 Signs You’re Going Through A Spiritual Awakening + How To Embrace It
by Sarah Regan: You’ve probably heard talk of spiritual awakenings and how they can lead to more enlightened (dare we say, “woke”) people… […]
The Spiritual Quest with Bob Thurman And Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong: We call Global Spirit the first “internal travel” series, because the topics and the discussions so often lead to a kind of inner exploration. […]
A Simple Buddhist Guide to having a Mindful Morning.
by Alex Myles: Waking up this morning, I smile… […]
Paramahansa Yogananda Enlightenment Story
by Paramahansa Yogananda: The following is an excerpt from Bringing Cosmic Consciousness To The West… […]
Awaken Interviews Louise Hay – Loving Ourselves Works Miracles In Our Lives
AWAKEN: Louise, I am just so happy to spend this time with you! I have admired your work and your writings for so long, […]
This $4 Desalination System Can Meet a Family’s Daily Water Needs
by Vanessa Bates Ramirez: In 2018 Cape Town, South Africa came frighteningly close to being the world’s first major city to run out of water… […]
What God, Quantum Mechanics And Consciousness Have In Common
by John Horgan: Theories that try to explain these big metaphysical mysteries fall short, making agnosticism the only sensible stance… […]
Love Letters To The Earth
by Thich Nhat Hanh: Your Ultimate Reality: No Death, No Fear… […]
Love Letters To The Earth -Thich Nhat Hanh
by Thich Nhat Hanh: Heaven on Earth… […]
Love Letters to the Earth
by Thich Nhat Hanh: Walking Tenderly on Mother Earth… […]
Vedanta’s Definition of God: There Is No God — There Is Nothing But God
In order to grasp the essence of Vedanta, it’s necessary to have an understanding of what we call Ishvara. […]
Interview with Dolores Cannon
Dolores Cannon, world famous past life regression therapist, author of 17 books and owner of publishing house Ozark Mountain […]
Dolores Cannon’s Quantum Healing Hypnosis
Dolores Cannon’s body of work rests on the knowledge that our minds are capable of anything. […]
Spiritual Intentions On The Path To Enlightenment
by Roger Gabriel: Our minds are constantly flooded with desires, most of which disappear as fast as they arise… […]
Awaken Interviews Kiri Westby Pt 1 – Awakening Is Refusing To Be Deluded Into a World of Just Light
Donna Quesada: Well, Kiri Westby, it is just a pleasure to have you here with us. On a personal note, I’ve been enjoying your book so much. […]
Sadhguru’s Enlightenment in His Own Words
Sadhguru: One afternoon, I rode up Chamundi Hill in Mysore city and went to a particular rock – a huge rock which was my usual place […]
The Mindful Self: A Mindfulness-Enlightened Self-view
by Qianguo Xiao: This paper analyzes studies of mindfulness and the self, with the aim of deepening our understanding of the potential benefits of mindfulness and meditation for mental health and well-being… […]
Sexual Passion On The Path Of Enlightenment.
by Joshua D. Barzell; As a man, I’ve come across plenty of women who I was naturally, physically attracted to but either nothing happened or the passion eventually was lost after a consummation of the [...]
How Can I Decide Who Is To Be My Partner?
In this video, Eckhart is asked the question “How can I decide who is to be my partner?” by the audience, so he explains how unconditional love and physical attraction aren’t incompatible… […]
Collapsing the Distance Between God and Ourself – Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira: A woman says she feels resistance to collapsing the duality between herself and God. […]
Don’t Cultivate Virtues, They are Already in You
by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Narada’s entire aphorisms focus on offering all activities, all attitudes, everything to the Divine and feeling free. […]
Alan Watts Discusses Nothing
Alan Watts discusses nothing.. […]
Psychedelic Drug Pioneer And Spiritual Leader Ram Dass Dead At 88
He was a guide for thousands seeking to discover or reclaim their spiritual identity beyond or within institutional religion. […]
Vision and Action – Barbara Marx Hubbard
by Barbara Marx Hubbard: This article is an excerpt from Andrew Beath’s book “Consciousness In Action: the Power of Beauty, Love and Courage in a Violent Time” (Lantern Press, 2005) […]
A female monk takes on Thailand’s clergy
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: A lone female monk has riled the religious hierarchy by waging a fight for ordination of women, reports Connie Levett from Nakhon Prathom, Thailand. […]
Gary Zukav: The Hardest Time to Choose Love
by Gary Zukav: The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually… […]
Why Tibet Matters So Much
by Robert Thurman: At times like these, I often wonder what normal people might think about the strange behavior of the Chinese government when the Dalai Lama looms on the horizon. […]
An Interview with Robert Thurman, The West’s First Buddhist Monk
Perhaps most widely-known as the father of Uma, Robert Thurman discusses his friend the Dalai Lama and how Hitler could have been defeated without violence. […]
Seeing the Light
by Deborah Solomon: Robert Thurman, As a professor of Buddhist studies at Columbia University and the first American to be ordained as a Tibetan monk, you don’t need to be reminded that the people of Tibet want [...]