What is…

What is…

What is enlightenment?

Enlightenment is not about experience! Neither is it an inconceivable or mind-blowing event, Nor some vague or fuzzy experience that happens to a unique someone. If a known experience is experienced, then it simply validates what you already know. If an unknown experience is experienced, then the experience is befuddling, […]

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What is forgiveness?

Being a human being does mean that we make mistakes. Everyone through-out time, has made many mistakes. Everyone will continue to make mistakes. We are all prone to making mistakes, and we need to make mistakes – it is part of being human. Most mistakes are of two kinds – […]

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