Is Religion Serving its Purpose?
As a meditator, my meaning of religion would be very different from the general audience, because I see religion from inside, not from outside. Usually, we see religion from the outside. What it offers is the comfort it gives us and the identity it gives us. It’s very...
Mindfulness
We know too much about too many people. Most of it is unnecessary and doesn't serve any purpose to us. Still, our mind is occupied realizing how others are doing, and the lifestyle comparison begins. We've caught ourselves in the clutches of material possessions and...
Your Greatest Desire is your Greatest Obstacle
Desire is not just limited to the mind and body, but we have become so obsessed with the idea of our minds and bodies. Since our entire identity is built on this life - our life - then desiring becomes just a way of fulfilling the already-existing desires of the mind...
One Minute to Enlightenment
Listen to a voice recording of this talk on SoundCloud here Is Language Good or Bad? Is language our gift or is it a curse? Is language a boon or a bane? Is language helping us or hurting us? That's a fundamental question because somehow we have assumed that language...
What you can do with 20,000 breaths a day
Breath. It's one of those things that you don't really notice most of the time, sort of like the heart beat, but it's pretty incredible that we do it, on average, 20,000 times per day! Breath is our connection to life; one cannot live more than a few minutes without...
Controlling your Mind with your Body
Severe stress or panic attacks are moments when you feel you have no control over what's happening around you, you have no control over your mind and body, and is a direct result of uncontrolled excessive thinking about something - usually something negative. You're...
Origin of Meditation – Why Meditate?
Meditation is an ancient science that holds the key to finding the real you and figuring out this mystery called "Life". Really, there is way more to life than what we're experiencing. In this article, Avi explains, in great detail, the mystery of meditation and how...
In Search of Love
The invisible thread that connects us to everything, and everything else to us, is love. There is no meaning and purpose to life without love and yet how many of us really understand the real meaning of the word love. Love is unfortunately mistaken for so many other...
The Art of Self-Sufficiency
Many years ago I was at a job interview and the interviewer asked the question, “What are your goals?” By that point in my life I was getting weary of the 8-hour-per day grind, listening to employees whining and complaining about everything, and just feeling like I...
Slow Down
Life is not all about how far we go, how many things we do, or how much we achieve; life is simply a measure of how deeply we live. This is why there are as many ways of living as there are people on this planet. There is no one right way of living and there certainly...
Be careful what you ask for
Have you ever come to that point in your life where you ask the question, “Seriously, what am I doing with my life?” I asked myself that question during my 30’s, again in my 40’s, and then again in my 50’s. The answer in my 30’s was to quit a good-paying government...
The Secret of Inspiration
Why is it difficult to stay inspired and motivated all the time? What is it in the nature of life that makes it so hard to keep our motivation going? Let’s try to understand the science of motivation. More importantly, let’s try to understand why we lose the ability...
