The word „responsibility“ has been continuously used in a wrong way. It gives a feeling of burden: you have to do it, it is a duty; if you don’t do it you will feel guilty. I want to remind you that the word ‚responsibility‘ has none of...
Interview with Vimala Thakar Introduction „Ananda, if women had not obtained the Going Forth from the house life into homelessness in the Law and Discipline declared by the Perfect One, the Holy Life would have lasted Long, the Holy Life would have lasted a...
Sind die Rechte der Tiere für die Zivilisation wichtig? Ich denke ja. „Grausamkeit gegen Tiere kann weder bei wahrer Bildung noch wahrer Gelehrsamkeit bestehen. Sie ist eines der kennzeichnendsten Laster eines niederen und unedlen Volkes.“ (Alexander von...
Are Animal Rights an indispensable basic of civilization? I think YES! However, there are still strong convictions that human beings must eat meat products – proved by science – although it has also been proved xtimes that this is not true. Whole nations...
Foreword by Aldous Huxley to Brave New World Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account...
I had a dream this night dealing with the creation of probabilities in each moment. In this dream it was absolutely clear how to stop with undesired probabilities. Words are a weak means to express the knowing that I had to decide that I don’t want to continue...
Jetzt bin ich nach einigen Umwegen durch Österreich wieder zurück aus Wien. Die Elias Gruppensitzung war, wie eigentlich immer, überraschend, weil er ein Thema wählt, das ich und die meisten Anderen nicht erwartet haben. Das Thema war „Wahrnehmung“ oder...
The Bible is addressed to the Man of Imagination, he who is immortal and cannot die. „The Eternal Body of Man is the Imagination. That is God Himself. The Divine Body, Jesus, we are his members.“ (William Blake) Ted Kennedy recently gave a eulogy for...
Ist eine andere Welt möglich? Sind im globalen Massstab Systeme denkbar, in denen Lebensmittelproduktion und -handel funktionieren und die frei sind von den Ungerechtigkeiten die heute so viel Leiden verursachen? Oder sind die Alternativen in unserer globalisierten...
„Im Westen sind viele Menschen damit beschäftigt, eine Wissenschaft oder Technologie der Erleuchtung zu schaffen. Es besteht mit Sicherheit eine Notwendigkeit dafür. Ist es verantwortungslos, so etwas zu erschaffen, ohne selbst erleuchtet zu sein? Ist Arica...
The soul is a princess, and the body is really its servant. The soul reigns the whole body because it enlivens it. When someone has a negative thought or deed, this is as bitter for the soul as poison for the body, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE BODY ACCEPTS THE NEGATIVITY. To the contrary the soul delights in goodness, just as the body delights in delicious food. The soul passes through the body like sap through a tree. It is through sap that the tree grows, produces flowers and fruit.
