Meetings on a Path to Awakening

Kobori Roshi : There is a Buddha for those who do not know what he is really – video

vidji — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:28:29 +0000

There is a Buddha for those who do not know what he is really, there is no Buddha for those who know what he is really .

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Bhagavad-Gita : Continually, remembers Me

vidji — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:41:15 +0000

12-13. All the doors of the senses closed, the mind shut in into the heart, the life-force taken up out of its diffused movement into the head, the intelligence concentrated in the utterance of the sacred syllable OM and its conceptive thought in the remembrance of the supreme Godhead, he who goes forth, abandoning the body, he attains to the … Read the rest >

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo : Virya Paramita or Effort

vidji — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:39:03 +0000

Contemplating viryaparamita, or the perfection of effort, leads us to the question of enthusiastic energy. Does the idea itself make you feel exhausted? We never can accomplish anything if we don’t really try, if we don’t have some ongoing perseverance. On the spiritual path, the two qualities most needed are patience and perseverance. For instance, many people who want to … Read the rest >

To those who have meditated much

vidji — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:16:22 +0000

For those who have meditated much, the real Truth dawned as soon as the body and consciousness-principle part. The acquiring of experience while living is important : they who have (then) recognized (the true nature of their own being), and thus have had some experience, obtain great power during the Bardo of the Moment of Death, when the Clear Light … Read the rest >

Edward Salim Michael : Practice of spiritual exercises

vidji — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:24:23 +0000

An earnest seeker should be deeply concerned each time he is confronted with his rebellious mind, with its lazy habits, instability, attachments, elusiveness, and slovenly ways of working. These he will have to study and try intelligently to contend with, both during his meditation and when he is engaged in doing his various spiritual exercises in outer life. He will … Read the rest >

Brother Lawrence : I feel joys so continual and so great

vidji — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:35:30 +0000

If we were well accustomed to the exercise of the presence of God, all bodily diseases would be much alleviated thereby. God often permits that whe should suffer a little to purify our souls and oblige us to continue with Him.

Take courage; offer Him your pains incessantly; pray to Him for strength to endure them. Above all, get a … Read the rest >

Is Enlightenment just a myth ? Approaches to Enlightenment

vidji — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:55:36 +0000

On a meditation retreat several years ago, late one evening after the Dharma talk, a woman raised her hand and asked one last question: “Is enlightenment just a myth?” When we teachers went back to our evening meeting, we asked each other this question. We exchanged stories about the creative freedom of Ajahn Chah, the enormous field of metta around … Read the rest >

Gospel of Thomas : When you come to know yourselves, then you will be known

vidji — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:53:13 +0000

(1) “If those who lead you say to you: ‘Look, the kingdom is in the sky!’

then the birds of the sky will precede you.

(2) If they say to you: ‘It is in the sea,’

then the fishes will precede you.

(3) Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and outside of you.”

(4) “When you come to know … Read the rest >

Ramana Maharshi : annihilation of the mind

vidji — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 12:24:26 +0000

Can someone become a high officer by merely once seeing such an officer ? He may become one if he strives and equips himself for the position. Similarly, can the ego, which is in bondage as the mind, become the divine Self, simply because it has once glimpsed that it is the Self ?

Is this not impossible without the … Read the rest >

Edward Salim Michael : a secret memory of the repetitions of his life

vidji — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:18:37 +0000

As in a game of chess, the dying person sees at that fateful moment how every one of his actions unleashed a chain of events that made his life what it was as well as the turn it took, whether fruitful or sterile; he also sees in what manner and to what extent he was responsible for it all.

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