An overview of our articles about spiritual awakening, enlightenment, self-actualization, non-duality, and personal growth.
Zen Buddhism is the Japanese version of Chinese Chan Buddhism, the latter being a lineage of Mahayana Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism is one of the two major Buddhist lineages originating in India, besides Theravada Buddhism. Buddhism [ Read more … ]
Phenomenology is a philosophical lineage of which in the former century the philosophers Husserl, Heidegger, and Sartre were the major spokesmen. They were certainly not the exclusive representatives, but I deliberately chose to mention these [ Read more … ]
Huang Po — also known as Huangbo or Ōbaku — was a Buddhist teacher, an exponent of Chan or Zen Buddhism, living in the 9th century in China. He adhered to so-called sudden insight principles [ Read more … ]
Myoan Eisai (Yosai), a Japanese Buddhist priest (1141 – 1215), founded Zen Buddhism in Japan, through what today is called the Rinzai School (the Japanese translation of the Chinese Chan Linji School). The Rinzai School [ Read more … ]
Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (1918–2007), affectionately known as U.G., has always claimed not to be a Guru or spiritual teacher, and moreover, that the whole idea of Spiritual Enlightenment is a myth. Widely known as the [ Read more … ]
Advaita (A-dvaita), a Sanskrit word for not-two or non-dual, is an influential Indian monistic Spiritual Enlightenment philosophy, part of the Vedanta lineage, but also a popular type of Sadhana (path of spiritual discipline and experience). [ Read more … ]
The designated times for meditation and prayer in Dinacharya Self Care are early in the morning, and in the evening before going to sleep. Of course, this is a very tricky topic because there are [ Read more … ]
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1872–1949) was a highly controversial mystic, occultist, philosopher, hypnotist, composer, and spiritual teacher of Armenian and Greek origin. By his disciples he was considered an Enlightened Guru. The Work was the definition [ Read more … ]
Wabi-Sabi is a Japanese Buddhist world view that focuses on the acceptance of impermanence and imperfection. The Wabi-Sabi concept refers to objects (the outer world) but also to subjective, inner experiences. Living Wabi-Sabi means, for [ Read more … ]
Ikigai is the Japanese lifestyle idea of the need to have “a reason for being,” a “reason to live for.” It’s about having a direction, joy and purpose in life, a motivation, that is, finding [ Read more … ]
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