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Money and spirituality – let's be responsible about it

I asked people what I should focus on when talking about money and spirituality on twitter. They greeted me with words that I consider new age plattitudes. Sorry people. Instead I’m getting back to basics, or trying to. This is sociology / economy 101. Money is the basis for our economy. It is money that [...]

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Some recommendations for spiritual growth

This blog is about 6 weeks old now and I’ve been amazed at my own potential for writing (I thought I’d be writing one or two posts a week) and at the amount of readers I already have. (And you all are so great at commenting too! ) The general advice is to really pump [...]

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Following the news & spirituality

I asked for subjects for this blog on twitter the other day and Hilary Barrett said: how do you keep up a positive attitude watching the news these days? Of course the assumption is that to have a positive attitude is a prerequisite to being spiritual. I think people as wide apart as Gautama Buddha [...]

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Natural affinity to age – old people, young people

I think each of us has a natural affinity to people of a certain age. An astrologer told me, when I was once again trying to figure out what the heck to do with my life, that I had an affinity to kids between 7 and 14 and with old people: above 65 or something. [...]

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Pride: how about the ego?

One of the first posts I did for this blog was about how I intend to have a very personal voice on this blog. I will be going against the grain of theosophical tradition by not being impersonal. I want to devote a few posts to the opposite issue: What kernels of truth are hidden [...]

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Spiritual Growth and Sunyata

I explained the difference and convergence of Sunyata and Nirvana yesterday. Today I want to go into what that means for every day spirituality. This is where the Buddhist tradition offers a variety of responses. There are those who feel that one first has to practice virtue, live up to the ideals of the many [...]

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To my Buddhist (and semi-Buddhist) readers

I feel blessed to already have so many readers and comments that I have to explain my basic attitude to blogging and spirituality not just to theosophists, but to (Western) Buddhists as well. First off: my basic concern is the pursuit of wisdom, not knowledge. This is what I also tried to say in my [...]

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Dreaming your life – or living it?

In college I was told that to have a magical world view was childish. What they mean by that is that people who believe in magic take too much personal responsibility: I thought about her dying, so I must have caused it somehow. Belief in magic does imply that we believe human beings are more [...]

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