Good Conduct

Appreciation

Description: Many times we don't tell people how much we appreciate them. A bird visited us for lunch a number of days in a row ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Description: Ahimsa is a central principle in Hinduism. Let us take a look at the words we use in joking and teasing. These words are hurting. How do we know? Gurudeva gave us a 4-fold key about how our speech ...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes

Ahimsa in Speech (Part 2)

Description: Ahimsa is a central principle in Hinduism. Let us take a look at the words we use in joking and teasing. These words ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Feedback on Words that Hurt

Description: We received some feedback on the last talk on words that hurt. Many found that teasing and joking definitely don't ...
Time: Less than 4 minutes

Arun Gandhi on "Season of Nonviolence"

Description: Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, recently visited the Aadheenam and also held an event on Kauai honoring ...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes

"Our People"

Description: A letter in Hinduism Today used the phrase "our people." Gurudeva never used this phrase. He reached out to everyone he encountered making no distinction. He also helped people broaden the scope ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Passing Your Knowledge On

Description: The Master Course lesson of the day and the sutra are on the senior monastics accepting new monastics for training. We have a duty to pass the wisdom of our years, everything we know, to the new ...
Time: Less than 4 minutes

Controlling Anger part 1

Description: In part one of a talk on anger, Bodhinatha speaks of the various levels of difficulty people have with this instinctive state of consciousness. Gurudeva gave some very useful suggestions and remedies ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Controlling Anger part 2

Description: In part two of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha refers back to a trip Gurudeva made to Malaysia in June 2000. Before Gurudeva left he was thinking positively about the practice of agnihotra, home fire worship, ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Anger and Meditation part 1

Description: Bodhinatha talks today on how important smooth interpersonal relationships are to the meditator. If our relationships with others are in poor shape, they will come up from our subconscious mind and ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Controlling Anger part 3

Description: In part three of his talk on anger, Bodhinatha begins by referring to the Tirukural and its chapter called ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Anger (Sneaky) part 2

Description: In part one of a more detailed talk on anger, Bodhinatha shares with us the effectiveness of some advice he recently gave to someone about the effect of angry episodes on the accumulated power ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Anger (Cold Shoulder) part 3

Description: In part two of this second talk on anger, Bodhinatha goes into the second rung on the ladder of anger, "the cold shoulder." He summarizes the first two rungs by discussing the subtleness of these ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

Responsiveness

Description: Responsiveness is important on the spiritual path, both in the monastery and in the family home. Bodhinatha talks about feelings of rebellion when approached with a suggestion and the importance of ...
Time: Between 4 and 8 minutes

Not Getting Angry

Description: After a short review of his recent talk on the Hindu philosophical outlook on the nature of man, Bodhinatha begins with a "Dear Bodhinatha" e-mail written in by a devotee who was having problems ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

How Judgments Affect Others

Description: Bodhinatha responds to an e-mail from Sheela Venkatakrishnan, the transcriber of his talks for the website, regarding how to look at assessments, evaluations and judgments. Bodhinatha says they're ...
Time: Less than 4 minutes

Good Conduct Means to Assist

Description: Bodhinatha elucidates from Gurudeva's Master Course lesson of the day on good conduct and reminds us that our conduct should always be aimed to assist, never hinder. He tells a great story from ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

State of the Church Address, 2003

Description: Bodhinatha gives the Annual State of the Church Address by the Guru Mahasannidhanam of Kauai Aadheenam. He reviewed the progress of 2002 including new students and members. and presented the goals ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

The Importance of Controlling Anger

Description: Part 2 of 4 - In Bodhinatha's moksha ritau address for 2002, he continues with a practical explanation of the affects of anger and how important it is to get a control on this base instinctive emotion when ...
Time: Longer than 8 minutes

The Niyama of Santosha, Contentment

Description: Bodhinatha speaks on santosha, contentment. This niyama is about being content and happy on the inside of ourselves no matter what happens on the outside. Unfulfilled desires keep us from experiencing ...
Time: Less than 4 minutes

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