by Bill Walz “Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbor is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of ‘them’ and ‘us’ and think of our world much more in terms of a great ‘US’, a greater human family.”Continue Reading
by Bill Walz “I believe that every human being has an innate desire for happiness and does not want to suffer. I also believe that the very purpose of life is to experience this happiness… Sometimes we look at the negative side of things and then feel hopeless. This, IContinue Reading
by Bill Walz With no-mind, blossoms invite the butterfly; With no-mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. When the flower blooms, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly comes, the flower blooms. I do not “know” others; Others do not “know” me. Not-knowing each other we naturally follow the Way. ~ 18thContinue Reading
by Bill Walz “Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is – no matter what form it takes – you are still, you are at peace.” ~ Eckhart Tolle In Zen teaching, emphasis is given to embracing the present moment without holding conditions on the content of the moment.Continue Reading
by Bill Walz “Calmness of mind is beyond the end of your exhalation, so if you exhale smoothly, without trying to exhale, you are entering into the complete perfect calmness of your mind… Instead of trying to feel yourself as you inhale, fade into emptiness as you exhale…we feel freeContinue Reading
by Bill Walz Meditation is not a separate something from daily life… meditation is a form of understanding one’s relationship to the world and one’s relationship to nature… (We are) enquiring into the whole nature of thinking, enquiring into the nature why human beings are behaving in this way, enquiringContinue Reading
by Bill Walz “Already we are the Buddha. There’s just no doubt about that. How could we be anything else? We’re all right here now. Where else could we be? But the point is to realize clearly what that means; this total oneness; this total harmony; and to be ableContinue Reading
by Bill Walz “Everything is as it can be.” ~ Alan Watts, philosopher/theologian Eckhart Tolle advises us “our suffering is in our resistance to what is.” The “what is” of life contains the entire spectrum of possibility from the sublimely beautiful to the unfathomably hideous, from the birth of aContinue Reading
“As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.” ~ Bhagavad-Gita As important as this is to realize, I would like to take the discussion of karma to a subtler level, the level of the evolution of consciousness. The cause andContinue Reading
