Searching for Truth in India
At the age of twenty I had no guru, no master to go to, no spiritual community to comfort me. I was alone on my path and had only one wild aspiration: to fly on the wings of the wind. As Krishnamurti taught, I did not look for a teacher,…
I remember experiencing an extraordinary sunset when I was a teenager.
It was an ordinary Sunday afternoon, my only time free from school and homework throughout the week. I took a random walk in the bustling streets, savoring the little freedom I could hold on to. When I arrived at the riverside, the sun was…
Marpa was an extremely frightening child. When he was 3 or 4 years old, everybody in the city was afraid of him. He had an immense power in him, and everybody said, “This child, either he is going to become a spiritual teacher, or he is going to destroy all of us as soon as…
The great yogi Tilopa, after he attained very high spiritual initiations and a very elevated state of consciousness, became a fisherman and lived the life of an ordinary fisherman for many years. At the same time, in Bengal, there was a great scholar, Naropa. Naropa was from a very respected family that was very rich…
I have been training with Mahasiddha Yoga studio for one year. During the yoga course of this year I have been having exponential spiritual awakenings.
This January I attended the New Years silent retreat for more advanced students who already have some kind of established practice. A week earlier I had experienced my first tantric orgasm. It was like…
My spiritual journey started about a year ago with a series of traumatic and unexpected events: first, I had just officially (and reluctantly) finalized a divorce after seven years of marriage, followed almost sequentially by an internal power struggle at my global management consulting firm (which, after several months of fighting, I lost and was…