Mystic and Warrior

Mystic and Warrior

I've been in a dilemma for the last 6 months regarding some choices in my personal life. Listening to you during the retreat talking about acceptance, I realized that there is still…

The Call of the Heart

The Call of the Heart

In the guided meditation I attended, you said: "find your teacher, find someone who can guide you on your path to finding truth". Even though I am very lucky to have many…

True Religion

True Religion

This is a letter that Albert Einstein wrote to a grieving father. It is an amazingly profound answer to a very hard question. Dear Dr. Einstein, Last summer my eleven-year-old son died…

The Spiritual Journey

The Spiritual Journey

Is there always a profound disharmony between presence, thoughts and emotions? Are they sometime coherent? If there is no common identity of thoughts, emotions and presence, what is at the origin of…

Entering the Void

Entering the Void

During the last class you talked about inner void. What did you mean by this ‘contemplation’ of the inner void? Inner void is painful and inclined towards negativity; full of contradictory and…

Spiritual Materialism

Spiritual Materialism

A friend I met yesterday told me she was going to a retreat with a teacher who spent many years learning from the Buddhist tradition and who later went into business and…

Loving our Parents

Loving our Parents

We are all looking for peace and happiness, but we cannot count on the outside world to give it to us. If we do, we will spend our life constantly seeking pleasures…

Three Fundamental Exercises

Three Fundamental Exercises

In order to live a more satisfying, joyful life, on the one hand, and, on the other, in order to create a more peaceful, quiet mind, a mind that will help us…

Am I Better than You?

Am I Better than You?

I have an issue with how to deal with “comparison”. I know it is not OK to compare yourself with other people, and I try not to do it but... I still…