Katinka Hesselink blogs about life, meditation, ethics, social justice, religion, personal growth and more…
Overview of my posts online over the past month or so: All Considering: Our experienced reality – aka Buddhism and The Secret (1) How desire feeds on itself (6) Guru yoga, freedom of belief, women’s rights,... Read More...
Ever since I started teaching the topic of Buddhist Philosophy about ten years ago, I’ve used the Law of Attraction (aka The Secret) to explain the Chittamatrin view (*). However, there are important differences and that’s basically what... Read More...
I’ve written about gratitude before, but I think the topic merits a revisit. For one thing: in our culture we’re taught, by psychologists, to face up to the negative things our parents and teachers did to us as we grew up. Facing up to our... Read More...
I’m not a feedburner stats addict, so when I saw accidentally yesterday that this blog had topped 300 subscribers, I was surprised. I added the feedburner widget to my blog just to show you all off :) To celebrate I’ll do two things. Today... Read More...
The Dec. 2009 issue of Scientific American seems unusually boring at first sight. At a more thorough reading though, it has some interesting tidbits relevant to this blog: A bouncy universe Recent theoretical physics calculations by Horava split time... Read More...
About a month ago I announced that on August 23rd I’d be celebrating a full year of blogging. It’s the 27th now that I finally get around to it. So here go my stats: 93 subscribers to this blog according to feedburner 12 people subscribed... Read More...
Contents of my monthly spiritual newsletter New Online Short Quotes Mind, H.P. Blavatsky Averting a Third War, Jiddu Krishnamurti The Theosophical Attitude to Life New Online New on All Considering BTW – for those of you reading my blog by... Read More...
Traditionally the main religions have advocated renunciation in one form or another. Whether it’s the fasting for Lent or the day time fast in Ramadan – lay people have been stimulated to restrain their appetites at one time in the year.... Read More...
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last six months, you know that our current economic crisis has been going from bad to worse, with no respite on the horizon in the near future.
My usual Friday piece about Blavatsky is based on The Key to Theosophy. ‘The Key’, as theosophists call this book, is the one book by Blavatsky with a traditional linear setup. In other words: the ordering of the subjects is like you would expect... Read More...