From the most sacred
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind. Elizabeth Gilbert
Krishna
He stretched out his
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our … Read more
You can focus on
You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them. Frederick Lenz
Krishna says meditate and
Krishna says meditate and you’ll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable – in countless myriad universes, forever. Frederick Lenz
Sri Krishna\’s message is
Sri Krishna’s message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava. Frederick Lenz
Sri Krishna refers, of
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he’s never been to Disneyland. Frederick Lenz
What Sri Krishna is
What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it’s a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it’s real, but it doesn’t last very long in its realness. It’s very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise. Frederick Lenz
Krishna says, fight. He
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it’s your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can’t go kill anybody, you can’t be killed. Frederick Lenz
The road for Arjuna
The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you’re most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments. Frederick Lenz
We live in a
We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working. Frederick Lenz