Transformational Rest

08/11/2025

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04/04/2025

My mentor and teacher, Kamini Desai. https://www.facebook.com/kaminidesaiphd/videos/1802447844007186/

02/17/2025

Yes, there are major medical institutions who recognize and acknowledge the vital important of Yoga Nidra. Please enjoy this session from John Hopkins.

Yoga and meditation may promote many health benefits, such as reducing fatigue and stress, for cancer survivors, patients actively in treatment or receiving ...

01/15/2025

"Why do you want a friend? Is it because you are lonely? Is it because you depend or rely on them? Is it to have companionship? Is it out of your insufficiency, depending on another to fulfil or fill that emptiness, and therefore you are using, exploiting another to cover your insufficiency and utter emptiness, and so call that person a friend? Most of us are lonely, and the older we get, the more lonely. We discover our emptiness, what it means to be lonely, to have no friend at all because you have led a superficial life and invested your thought, your feelings in another. And when they go away or die, you feel so lonely and empty. Out of that emptiness, there is self-pity, and then you again begin the game of seeking somebody to fill that loneliness. Can you see all this and learn from it? Learn what it means to be lonely and not escape from it; look at it, live with it, see what is implied so that psychologically you depend on nobody. Then only will you know what it means to love."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

01/15/2025

A mind that is full of conclusions is a dead mind, it is not a living mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding. —Krishnamurti

Death is part of life. It’s a rather complex problem and one must go into it hesitantly, with great care and with intelligence. I mean by that word ‘intelligence’ not intellectual capacity, not a mind that’s cunning, contriving, or a mind that is imaginative, because death is not imagination, is not something that you can contrive to escape. It is there to be faced, and asking whether the mind, you, the mind, the human mind, can ever be free from death. Man throughout the ages has tried to find immortality, to go beyond death and whether the mind can be free from the thing called death. The understanding and the freedom from that is as important as bringing order in life; it is as important as to have compassion, passion, integrity. So it is a part of life and therefore to be gathered, to be understood, to be faced. Are you waiting for me to tell you what to do about it, how to go beyond it? If you hear what is being said and draw a conclusion from it, that very conclusion is bringing about a death of a different kind: a mind that is full of conclusions is already a dead mind, it is not a living mind. A living mind is a free mind, learning, never concluding. So we are investigating, therefore learning, never coming to any conclusion, and that is the beauty of this whole movement of life.

Ojai 1973, Talk 3

01/15/2025

We are trained from childhood to compete, to be cruel, to fit into society. As long as we are educated to fit into society, we will invariably be cruel because society is based on violence. —Krishnamurti

Longer passage: We are trained from childhood to compete, to be cruel, to fit into society. As long as we are educated to fit into society, we will invariably be cruel because society is based on violence. If we loved our children, we would educate them entirely differently, so that there would be no more war, no nationalism, no rich and no poor, and the whole structure of this ugly society would be transformed.

Collected Works Vol. 10

01/12/2025

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