Emotional pain can look like so many things. Most of it will stem from loss, fear or the trauma we have experienced. Any one of these, or all of the above, will do. Again because of my life experiences, I have endured trauma, many losses, and lots of fearful times. Somehow, even from my earliest […]
Pain is Mandatory…Suffering is Optional: The Physical Aspect
For reasons I’d rather not go into now, this body of mine has suffered a lot, including several major surgeries and lots of minor complications, all which have brought about physical pain, and some of that physical pain continues to linger 20-30 years later. I remember one of my last stays in a hospital where […]
Buddhism-Nirvana through The Divine Masculine
In honor of Father’s Day, the June issue of the Ah-Man Newsletter focuses on “The Divine Masculine.” Remember that I am just offering a glimpse of what the Divine Masculine may look like. The Divine Masculine is a path of actions that brings results. So we do certain things to achieve a particular type of […]
Sacrifice and Service
As I have discussed over the past few weeks, there are different ways of performing service. For example, there is environmentalism, as mentioned last week. Another way is humanitarianism…helping other living entities on the planet. There are so many people doing such important work on the planet today by helping others who are less fortunate. […]
Living from the Core of Our Being: From the Perspective of Hinduism, Judaism and Christianity
Just as a reminder, the topic for this month has been Suffering is an Option. And I have been using “spiritual” teachings from six main paths known to us to illustrate that they all teach us the same thing about suffering: that it is something we do not have to endure. There is a path. […]
The Taoist Tradition “Yield and Overcome”
I want to continue with March’s blog theme – Suffering – by explaining that Taoism (spelled with a “T” but pronounced with a “D”) is an ancient Truth, as with the other five widely known religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Last week, I touched on the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism and how […]
Suffering
The Four Noble Truths in Buddhism say: There is suffering. It is caused by not knowing our True Nature and our desires that overshadow our True Nature. Suffering can be ended through knowing our True Nature. There is a path. In essence, Lord Buddha is saying that the nature of life in the world is […]
