This article is really dense in its content and written with a lot of thought and thoroughness. I was struck by a couple of things, however, based on my own experience over many decades... You wrote: "An enlightened mystic...might have a profound understanding of the act’s reality, one that views…

Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering We spend so much of our time inside our heads — thinking, calculating, wondering, pondering, scheming, planning, imagining, fearing, hoping, and visualizing…

Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering Although we are all brought up differently, whether we are in the same family or as different nationalities anywhere in the world, there is one undeniable commonality that marks our lives: We are all…

Vic Shayne author The Self is a Belief: The idea that causes suffering Human beings have long created gods in their own image — imperfect and full of human traits. This is obvious to all who are free to see it, and it is denied by those who have invested…

Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering Some people say that they are in search of the “ultimate truth,” and others claim they have found it. There are also people who have no interest in much more than an endless stream…

Vic Shayne author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: how to realize your true nature and end suffering The Dalai Lama, Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Attar of Nishapur, and others have been considered “world teachers” in their lifetimes. Their insight into why we have problems and what we can do to…

Vic Shayne Author 13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering With spirituality’s emphasis on suffering, one may wonder if this emphasis is all that life is about and all that is important on the invisible road to enlightenment. The Buddha, the gurus in the…

Vic Shayne author The Self is a Belief: the idea that causes suffering Most of us have heard the old trope that people suffer from fear ofthe unknown. But it seems instead that we actually fear the known and not the unknown. Allow me to explain. Since the earliest age…

Vic Shayne author The Self is a Belief: the idea that causes suffering When beliefs are repeated often enough they can become facts. We have seen this happen over and over through the millennia. It’s how profound teachings are reduced to the ugly, vapidity of religion and how political leaders…