Conditions For Initiation
I have heard a very old Tibetan story: There was a great sage who would not initiate anybody, who would not make anybody a disciple. And his fame spread...
The More I Ponder
In fact, the real Self never becomes absolutely known; it remains mysterious, it remains ineffable, indefinable. The real Self is so vast that you cannot define it, and the...
One Has To Say Goodbye
One of Buddha’s disciples, Sariputta, one day bowed down at Buddha’s feet. Suddenly he felt the energy falling on him. He felt a sudden transformation, a mutation of his...
The First Sleep
Buddha says you are awakened only when these three sleeps are broken. One sleep is the sleep with things: many people are asleep there, that is the grossest sleep....
In Search Of A Master
There is a famous Sufi story: a man went in search of a Master. He was ready to go around the world, but he was determined to find the...
Everything Is Allowed
Just explaining this to you: that there is no goal, that there is nothing to achieve, that everything is good as it is. I will tell you a Sufi...
Real Freedom
I have heard…. Once Diogenes was caught by a few people, robbers. Diogenes was a very healthy mystic. In the West, he seems to be the only person who...
Is It Crazy Enough?
I have heard a true story, as told by Freeman Dyron… A few months ago, Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli believed that they had made an essential step forward...
To Be A Disciple Is Very Difficult
These are the stages a seeker moves through: the student, the disciple, the devotee. The fourth is also there but it does not belong to the seeker, it belongs...
I’m Alright So Far!!
Once there was a great king who asked his magician to find him a courageous man for a dangerous mission. After a long search, the magician brought four men...