Pt 11: Sri Daya Mata Memorial Service
Conclusion of the memorial service for Sri Daya Mata. […]
Pt 1: Sri Daya Mata Memorial Service
Sri Daya Mata, president and one of the earliest and foremost disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda was honored at her memorial service. […]
Keys to Deeper Meditation
by Daya Mata: Above all, God-communion is a vital personal necessity to every one of us because in the ultimate sense our happiness and well-being depend on it. […]
The Perfect Joy
by Daya Mata: Gurudeva Paramahansa Yogananda often extolled St. Francis of Assisi as one of the great lovers of Christ, an exemplar of what a follower of Christ should be. In the chapel at SRF [...]
Benefits of Meditation
by Daya Mata: More and more people nowadays are realizing the tremendous benefits of meditation. They may read books on this subject or listen to spiritual teachers who advise, “Practice silence; go within.” […]
Presence, The Key To Liberation – Leonard Jacobson
Leonard Jacobson- Teaching Sessions are scheduled regularly throughout the year… […]
Yeshe Tsogyal: Woman and Feminine Principle
by Rita Gross and Acharya Judith Simmer Brown: Yeshe Tsogyal has long been a key figure in the Nyingma lineage, important to the Vidyadhara and the Sakyong. […]
Meditation Practice as Skills Training
Sharon Salzberg talks about her personal experience with meditation with various teachers – from Open Your Heart in Paradise. […]
From Businessman to Spiritual Teacher
Mr. SATYA NARAYAN GOENKA, the foremost lay teacher of Vipassana meditation in the tradition of the Venerable Ledi Sayadaw, was a student of the late Sayagyi U Ba Khin of Burma (Myanmar). The technique which [...]
The Emerging New World -Ananda Giri
by Ananda Giri: Has the world really become a better place, or is it only an exaggerated point of view of the optimist. I do believe that the new information revolution has caused a radical [...]
The New World Citizen – Anada Giri
by Anada Giri In the summer of 2009, I was visiting the city of Los Angeles to speak at a conference. […]
Google’s Gopi Kallayil On The Business Value Of Mindfulness
by Todd Essig: No reasonable person doubts that basic literacy is a fundamental business skill… […]
Altruism in Financial Life
Roshi Joan Halifax answers the question, what role can Altruism play in making our financial life more meaningful? […]
Using a Bucket List to Focus
Roshi Joan Halifax: reflects on how we can use tools like the Bucket List to enhance our lives. […]
Be Love Now – Ram Dass
by Ram Dass: Excerpted from Be Love Now by Ram Dass, Rameshwar Das… […]
Destiny, Wealth & Wisdom
By Chris Attwood and Janet Bray Attwood: Through their company, Enlightened Alliances, Janet and Chris Attwood work with some of the most successful individuals in the world. These are people who are not only successful, [...]
Meditation for Anxiety – Donna Quesada
by Dhanpal-Donna Quesada: Meditation for Anxiety… […]
Making Money From Your Passion
My interview with Janet Attwood is the prime example how you can turn your passion into profit. She should know -she is doing it even as you are reading this blog article. […]
5 Things I Learn From Gandhi
by James Altucher: First, two small stories: […]
Osho Mindfulness – Door way to Relaxed Awareness
by Osho: What Is Mindfulness? […]
Amma, the Hugging Saint from India, offers warm embraces in Frisco
FRISCO — Mata Amritanandamayi has been called a spiritual leader, a humanitarian and a saint. She’s also one heck of a hugger. […]
The Hugging Saint Pt 1
By DAVID AMSDEN: A guru named Amma has drawn 32 million people into her embrace – spreading a message of love, compassion and overpriced merchandise. […]
Going to see Amma, the Hindu “Hugging Saint”
Darshan means “to see” in Sanskrit. Hindus believe the powers of the deity can be absorbed by the onlooker through his/her eyes when viewing an image of the deity. […]
Pema Chödrön 5 Reasons To Meditate
by Pema Chödrön: Yes, it’s a strange thing to do — just sit there and do basically nothing… […]
Mother Meera on Meditation and Japa
Question and answer from the library of Mother Meera. […]
Guru Singh Be Your “Infinite” Nature Within Every Breath You Take
by Guru Singh: Infinity is beyond your imagination — what appears to be infinite is only an idea. […]
Remembering Swami Sivananda
by Swami Sivananda: This is the blessed occasion of the coming of Sri Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. […]
The Inscrutable Gurudev Sri Swami Sivananda
by Swami Krishnananda: Auṁ sa ha nᾱv avatu, saha nau bhunaktu, saha vīryam karavᾱvahai, tejasvi nav adhītam astu: mᾱ vidviṣᾱvahai; auṁ śāntih, śāntih, śāntih. […]
How To Overcome Fear
by Swami Sivananda: The Sanskrit equivalent for fear is “Bhaya”. Fear is an emotion or Vritti in the mind that is produced when one’s life is in danger on account of external forces or things. [...]
Karma Yoga
WHAT IS KARMA ? by Swami Sivananda: Karma is a Sanskrit term. It means action or deed. […]
Sri Swami Satchidananda: No Disappointments
Sri Swami Satchidananda gives a simple remedy to avoid all disappointment: “make no appointments, you won’t have any dis-appointments!” […]
Maintain Your Equanimity – Swami Satchidananda
Swami Satchidananda explains how getting sad or depressed doesn’t help the world situation. […]
How to Be Happy Always – Swami Satchidananda
H. H. Sri Swami Satchidananda (Integral Yoga) speaks about how to find permanent happiness by not getting caught in the disappointments of temporary happiness. […]
Global Service
Sri Gurudev began his public service in 1951 when H. H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj sent him on an All-India Tour. […]
How to Get More Done by Slowing Down
By Gabrielle Bernstein: The concept of slowing down often seems alluring—but it can also be really trippy for people. […]
Woodstock
Sri Swami Satchidananda opened the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, New York on August 15, addressing a crowd of approximately 500,000. […]
How to Get Love
Originally Published in: The Golden Present – Daily Inspirational Readings […]
Sri Swami Satchidananda
by Sri Swami Satchidananda, from the book Adversity and Awakening: […]
Is Selfishness Promoted in Society?
by Matthieu Richard: Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan recommends the reading of Ayn Rand’s writings to all his collaborators. Does the United States of America truly want to have a leader whose ideal is to [...]
Tolerance: A Nonviolent Tool to Change The World
by Matthieu Ricard: Tolerance goes hand in hand with courage, inner strength, and intelligence, the qualities that alleviate mental suffering and prevent us from falling into negative thinking. […]
From Competition to Cooperation – Pt 2
by Mathieu Richard: I am more and more convinced that altruism is not a luxury. It is not merely a noble sentiment that we apply only when things go well. It has become a necessity. [...]
From Competition to Cooperation – Pt 1
by Mathieu Richard: The business world is a world of competition that often is very intense. Unhealthy competition is driven by greed, hostility, and unscrupulous selfishness. However, competition can also used as a source of [...]
Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’
At the age of 81, with over 500,000 books in print, Marion Woodman is a wise elder in the field of Jungian psychology. […]
Jack Kornfield: Right Effort
by Jack Kornfield: The next three steps of the Eightfold Path have to do more with inner work of meditation than outer work of Right Livelihood and Right Speech, and so forth. […]
The Subtle Mindset Shift That Could Radically Change The Way You See The World
by Arthur C. Brooks: The Dalai Lama teaches that we are all interconnected and inseparable from one another. Acknowledging that can make us less lonely, more compassionate, and better investigators of the truth… […]