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Karma, Meditation, Books, Awareness and More

Every once in a while I do an overview post of all the spiritual stuff I have put online in the past period. It turns out that the last time I did this was almost a year ago, so this post is long overdue. This post is also the basis for my newsletter.

Most importantly of course, 2014 was the year I published my first book: Essays on Karma. I can report that it was downloaded 385 times in 2014 and that two people gave it a 5 star review.

My posts on All Considering for 2014:

  • 19/12 –2014 – what a year!(0)
  • 15/12 –Bodhicitta and Racism – meditating on equanimity(1)
  • 09/12 –Meditation and self-knowledge(1)
  • 04/12 –The karma of institutions, corporations and organisations(0)
  • 27/11 –A Dummy’s Guide to Spiritual Hitchhiking(2)
  • 21/11 –What happened to Katinka?(1)
  • 22/09 –Short term and long term – the environment and spirituality(5)
  • 16/06 –Female vs Male Spirituality(0)
  • 06/06 –How to be a bad girl – or a strong woman(1)
  • 05/06 –How to bring more awareness in your daily life(0)
  • 28/05 –Comments on this blog – moderated from now on #WordPress(0)
  • 24/05 –Selfishness vs altruism – same or different?(2)
  • 15/03 –Academic learning vs Emotional learning(3)

My book reviews on Great Spiritual Books for 2014 and January 2015 are a mix of material I wrote earlier for Squidoo (more on that later) and book reviews of books I read this year.

  • Best Thich Nhat Hanh Books
  • Best Dalai Lama Books List
  • Creative Evolution by Amit Goswami PhD (reblog from Squidoo)
  • Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas  (reblog from Squidoo)
  • The Buddhist Handbook, by John Snelling  (reblog from Squidoo)
  • Best Dalai Lama Biography: Kundun by Mary Craig (reblog from Squidoo)
  • Meditation books for kids (reblog from Squidoo)
  • Love: The Saint and the Seeker – Mother Teresa and Christina Stevens
  • The View From Within: First Person Approaches To The Study Of Consciousness (reblog from Squidoo)
  • Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West
  • Mindfulness for Dummies review
  • Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth
  • Neufelt, Ronald W. (ed). Karma and rebirth: Post Classical Developments
  • Doniger O’Flaherty, Wendy (ed). Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
  • Karma: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality
  • HH the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
  • Trying not to Try – Wu Wei and De

Squidoo is a site that I was very active on for the past years. At it’s height I earned a very decent living there. It helped me buy my house. It is also one of the places where I developed as a writer. However, the last year or two have been frustrating and when the news came that Squidoo was quitting and all our content would be moved to Hubpages, I was pretty happy about it.

However, it turns out that my spiritual content is not doing so well on Hubpages as it did on Squidoo. A lot of it doesn’t fall in step with their editorial guidelines and Google has pretty much stopped sending traffic. I have therefore begun moving much of it to my own sites. The book reviews went to my spiritual books blog, and a few pages ended up here on All Considering.

However, most of it fits best on my oldest site: KatinkaHesselink.net. The result is that I have – after years of neglect – been looking at that site with fresh eyes. I have given it a redesign and individual pages have been enriched with the material from Squidoo. What follows is a list of those pages and as you can see – it is quite long. Most already existed, but I have added a few totally new pages as well. I am about halfway through my former spirituality Squidoo account, so you can expect more of this in future. This is a selection.

  • Religious Jokes and Spiritual Stories
  • Spiritual Teachers and Gurus
  • Short Wisdom quotes and Spiritual Aphorisms
  • Love Quotes
  • Quotes on success and failure
  • Tao Te Ching Quotations
  • Rudolf Steiner Quotes
  • Christian Quotes
  • Mindfulness Meditation
  • Meditation, Mindfulness and the relativity of thought in Buddhism
  • Alternative Christianity

Biographies

  • Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Anthony de Mello
  • Idris Shah
  • H.P. Blavatsky
  • Kahlil Gibran
  • N. Sri Ram
  • John Hick
  • William James
  • Ken Wilber
  • Karen Armstrong
  • Annie Besant
  • Geoffrey Hodson
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
  • H.H. the Dalai Lama

Spiritual gifts and presents

  • Best books about the world religions
  • Buddhism Gifts
  • Buddhism Books
  • Mindfulness Books
  • Tibetan Buddhism Books
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti Books
  • Christian Gifts
  • Advent Calendars
  • Theosophy Books

I also have a small blog devoted to Indian spirituality. I started it when I was planning to go there again. I didn’t go, but I did start a blog and have now used it as a home for some Squidoo content:

  • Hindu Religious Books for Children
  • Best Sri Aurobindo Books
  • What inspired me to want to go to India
  • Yoga – history and tradition from India

This year was notable for me for various reasons. One was that I got to see H.H. the Dalai Lama, first in Rotterdam and then in Hamburg. As he taught on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara by Santideva in Germany, I made sure to read a translation and commentary. I settled on the one by Pema Chodron (there are many). She is one of the Buddhist teachers I admire most, so I made a site about her a few years back.

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