Gary Renard discusses forgiveness and how it relates to ego, illusion, separation, and victimization. He also shares how his fear of public speaking was a lesson in forgiveness, and how we can see our lives like a movie to experience forgiveness more easily.
This 2 minute clip is from the discussion style lecture between David Hawkins and Susan Hawkins. In it, David addresses the very simple yet difficult topic of letting go of the past so that we can live more fully in the present. Simple, easy to understand, and explained in a way that is direct and…
The Bodhisattva was once born as the king of Gandhara. One day, he saw the lunar eclipse and realized the futility of his kingly life. So he became an ascetic and went to live in the forest. The king of Videha, who was his friend, followed him. The two ascetics stayed together in the forest…
Once there lived two very close friends – a lion and a tiger. They had been friends since they were cubs and did not know that they were different from each other. They lived happily in a forest, which was also inhabited by a wise and gentle hermit. One day, the tiger and the tiger…
Leo Tolstoy has written a beautiful story: Three men became very famous saints in Russia. The highest priest of the country was very much disturbed — obviously, because people were not coming to him, people were going to those three saints, and he had not even heard their names. And how could they be saints?…
Long ago, the Bodhisattva was born as a golden deer named Ruru. No other deer was as lovely as him. His golden body shone like the sun; his lotus eyes sparkled like the stars. He lived in the dense jungles in close friendship with the other animals. The tiger, the lion, the snake, the monkeys,…
A group of hermits who went around seeking aims were once subjected to greed, and thought, “Why do we need to work hard at all? We can just go around and ask for whatever we need, from the villagers. That way we would lead a comfortable life.” So the hermits started demanding, rather than humbly…
One day, while they were frolicking in the water of a stream, King Brahmadatta was passing by. His eyes fell on the lovely Chanda singing and dancing gaily in the water and he fell in love with her. Guessing that the Kinnara was her husband, King Brahmadatta shot and killed him with his arrow. He…
The sentries of King Kalabu reported to the King that his queen was in the company of an ascetic. Hearing this, the King flew into a terrible rage and rushed to the scene. As he drew his sword to kill the Bodhisattva, the queen pleaded for mercy and asked him to spare the ascetic’s life….
There is an ancient story, the famous Zen story, The Ten Bulls of Zen. It is a pictorial story with ten picture cards, each card containing a phase of man and his evolution. The original pack consisted of only nine cards; the tenth was added by a madman like me. Everybody opposed him, everybody denounced…
