Category: Spirituality

Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness

Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness

This is not just a video about happiness; if you see it one pointedly it is pure joy, expressing through the Dalai Lama and infectious to the people around him. Just hearing him, I was moved to both laughter and tears. The Dalai Lama, talks about warm heartedness, a quality so integral to our sense of connectedness with the universe. When we are warm hearted, we intuitively acknowledge that the highest part of the universe – if you would like to call that God – resides deeply in each of us. If we cannot approach each other with warm heartedness, then we have cut ourselves off from the nectar that flows in our own heart; which is the beginning of loneliness. Please have a lovely day.

Video Length: 8 min 7 seconds

Life is Not a Journey

This video which has Alan Watts’ voice opens us up to looking at life through another prism. Not as a journey, but more as a playful happening, with no end result or end goal. There is no necessity for life and neither is it going anywhere. “Playfulness” is the key concept he speaks of. Life is best understood via the analogy of music according to Alan; since music essentially as an artform is playful. Being a musician since I was six years old, this has been my intuitive understanding since childhood. Playfulness and joy are the two pillars life needs to be constructed around and slowly a deep interiorisation of the process begins through consistency and practice, which eventually results in constant joy.

You want to save the planet?

George Carlin was an American stand up comedian. But in my eyes he was a tremendously spiritual being, who had an understanding of the universe and a unique way to express it. In this video titled “Saving The Planet”, George addresses our arrogance at even thinking we can save the planet and control nature. The planet knows how to look after itself, thank you, he says. At 6 minutes 30 seconds into the video you will be surprised at what he said so many years ago, appropriate for our current world situation. I hope you enjoy this short 8 minute journey and gain some insights from it. All your own.

Why you need to trust the universe?

This is an apt contemplation, especially at a time like this, when the entire world is caught in the grip of fear. How do we remove our conditioning, so that we may become aware of the universe breathing through us. How can we drop the intellect, to see from the lense of direct experience. “The “Tao” can only make use of you when you are empty of all that blocks a union between yourself and the universe.” This video tries to capture some of these themes. Enjoy it this morning.