I fully understand the trouble mosquitoes can cause from some of my travels through the jungles across Asia and South America. What I will say is this, there is certainly no need to feel terrible if you have killed them. Mainly because it doesn’t do any good. Does the mosquito feel guilty for drinking your blood, disturbing your sleep, and risking your health? Of course not. This is the law…
🎧 Prefer to listen? Listen to this Episode on BuzzsproutI ran into a guy in India who told me about this Vipassana retreat he'd done. He told me it was super difficult but really great. You have to wake up at 4am everyday and meditate for 12 hours a day. No phones, no reading, no talking, no writing, don't even look other students in the eye.Eager for real, transformative experiences,…
The Core Questions of Existence: Suffering, Oneness, and the Illusion of Separateness Why does a flower blossom? Why does a tree grow? Why are we here? Does life want to live? Does life want to just reproduce and survive? And if so, why? For what benefit? Or is it all just random chaos? God created the universe because it was bored. Because it could. Because it wanted life to enjoy…
🎧 Prefer to listen? Listen to Episode #67 on Apple / Spotify What Does It Mean to Observe Your Thoughts?Most of the time, in our day-to-day lives, we are lost in thought, pondering various ideas without actively observing them. We are not consciously witnessing or listening to our thoughts.If we were to ask ourselves what we were thinking about a minute ago, most of the time, unless we've been fixated…
Yes, absolutely. Christian meditation isn't a modern compromise—it’s an ancient practice deeply rooted in Scripture. But there is a crucial difference: while traditional Eastern practices focus on emptying the mind to find quiet, Biblical meditation is about filling the heart and mind with God’s truth, divine presence, and sacred stillness (Psalm 1:2, Joshua 1:8). It isn't about escaping reality; it's about anchoring your soul in the Divine.Deepen Your Quiet Mind…
There are a lot of articles, influencers, and people talking about the rise of people cutting off family members.And as the forgiveness, love, compassion guy, you may think I’m anti-cutting people off, which actually isn’t true. I have had to cut people off, and I know that a lot of people are struggling with it.It’s one of the hardest things in most people’s lives — this idea of wanting someone…
We live in a very left-brain-dominant world. We put so much focus on quantitative things instead of qualitative ones. We obsess over having the right amount of money, the right possessions, the right-sized family, the right-sized house, everything that society tells us we’re supposed to want. And we never focus on the really important part, which is the qualitative. How do we spend our money? How are our relationships, not…
Everyone Is Your Guru Over the last 10 years, I’ve had hundreds of gurus and mentors, shamans, tribal chiefs, who have imparted so much of their wisdom to me. Many monks and nuns in Buddhism and other religions have shared their knowledge with me. And the truth is, every single person I meet, every plant I see, every butterfly and ant, every rock, chair, table—everything—is my guru, my mentor, my…
We spend our whole lives trying to become somebody. Somebody important. Somebody respected. Somebody successful. But what if that pursuit is the very thing keeping us fragmented? We spend our whole lives trying to be somebody. We want to be somebody in business. We want to be somebody's husband or wife. We want to be someone's parent. We want to be somebody's great kid. We want to be somebody who's…
Some people want to kill their ego. Others want to dissolve it. And yet others will say just make peace with it. So what is it? Violence certainly doesn't sound good. Is it even possible to dissolve it? Peace sounds good, but the ego tends to not be very peaceful. In order to dissolve the ego, we must first understand the nature of the ego. Every single conflict on earth…
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