Hinduism https://www.thesunmagazine.org/rss en-us The Brahmin’s Son One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, error.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25531 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 04:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25531-the-brahmin-s-son Sunbeams

Man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. . . . This craving for community of worship is the chief misery of every man individually and of all humanity from the beginning of time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27001 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27001-sunbeams <em>excerpted from</em><br />What Took You So Long? In India, old, old stories still are told of a Hindu holy man named Narada who devoted his life to attaining the spiri­tual liberation of nirvana.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22211 Sat, 01 Feb 2014 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22211-em-excerpted-from-em-br-what-took-you-so-long The Water Carrier Guru Gobind Singh’s small fort in Anandpur Sahib was besieged by the mighty forces of Emperor Aurangzeb. The emperor, who believed Islam was the only valid, true, and right religion, was forcibly converting Hindus, Sikhs, and Christians. Guru Gobind Singh, however, believed that all humans worshiped in their own unique ways and that all religions, if practiced with love and heart, led to God.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27969 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27969-the-water-carrier A Joyful Noise Real gurus don’t intend to teach; they teach just by being. The word guru means “one who dispels the darkness,” which is different from giving light. Giving light means giving someone something that they don’t already have. Gurus remove the layers of darkness and show you what’s already there. They peel away the self-hatred, the guilt, the shame, the fear. A guru is someone who has truly conquered all of that and lives only to help people. There’s no edge, no harshness, only complete love and acceptance — and a kind of cosmic chuckle because you don’t fully understand; not laughing at you, but saying, “Come on! Get with it!”

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22699 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22699-a-joyful-noise Simply Becoming Aware That you are, my friend, you know well. Your experience every moment reminds you of it. Simply find out who you are, find out what it is in you that does not depend on the changing circumstances of your bodily or mental existence, that kernel of your consciousness which, in the last analysis, cannot be identified with any of the external circumstances in which you find yourself.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25442 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25442-simply-becoming-aware Submit To Mother India “Submit to Mother India,” a veteran traveler advised me before I left New York, and I intended to take her advice to heart. I steeled myself for nothing to go according to plan. I was prepared to get gruesomely ill at some point. I was prepared to let India have its way with me. “You can’t prepare yourself for India,” my well-traveled friend had also said.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23079 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23079-submit-to-mother-india The Jeweled Net Of Indra http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27768 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27768-the-jeweled-net-of-indra You’re In Here, Too It’s morning but still dark out. It’s also raining and cold. I’m walking out of the twenty-four-hour fitness center, on my way to the all-night Waffle House, when a woman hails me from her car. She has just run away from her husband, she says, and needs gas money to get to her mother’s.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25804 Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:10:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25804-you-re-in-here-too September 2001 One way to love myself is to stand still when sadness comes sweeping in like a storm. This means not judging the storm, and not condemning myself for getting drenched; three-quarters of the world is covered in water.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27494 Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27494-september-2001 Sunbeams

Spirituality is not a course in literature.

Stewart Brinton

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26804 Wed, 01 Mar 1995 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26804-sunbeams Epic Unwinding http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22489 Sun, 01 Dec 1991 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22489-epic-unwinding Acorns I was about to run out of meter time when an elderly gentleman approached, moving about as fast as a snail with a broken leg. He carried two large bags full of food and sundry housekeeping paraphernalia. Red-faced and puffing. I offered him a hand.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23341 Mon, 01 Jul 1985 00:10:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23341-acorns Sunbeams

There are never enough “I-love-yous.”

Lenny Bruce

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23888 Fri, 01 Mar 1985 00:58:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/23888-sunbeams Miracle Of Love At this point Maharaj-ji said, “Oh, I didn’t realize you were so attached to money.” And with that he took a set of tongs, reached into the fire, and began pulling new, unburned rupee notes from the fire until he had returned all the rupees to the sadhu. After that, the sadhu did not sit on Maharaj-ji’s tucket anymore — but at his feet.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24713 Wed, 01 Feb 1984 00:05:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24713-miracle-of-love All Men Are Brothers I do not want to be reborn. But if I have to be reborn, I should be born an untouchable, so that I may share their sorrows, sufferings, and affronts levelled at them, in order that I may endeavour to free myself and them from that miserable condition.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27076 Sun, 01 May 1983 00:05:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27076-all-men-are-brothers Call Them By Their Names With Passion “Name and form” the rishis call it. “Function and form,” biologists reply. Parallels accumulate. Coincidence perhaps, but I am forced to wonder. How much power is in a word, and can I make it mine?

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26684 Fri, 01 Jan 1982 00:05:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26684-call-them-by-their-names-with-passion Karma Every thought, word, and deed in our lives is a seed which we plant in the world. All our lives, we harvest the fruits of those seeds. If the seeds are full of anger, fear, greed, desire, and doubt, then so will our lives be. If the seeds contain love, kindness and understanding, then our lives will as well.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26596 Tue, 01 Dec 1981 00:10:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26596-karma Death On The Wind I’m presently in the Idaho State prison for first degree murder, two counts. I was arrested in November of 1974, taken to trial, found guilty and sentenced to death, March of 1976. In October of 1977, the Idaho Supreme Court vacated my death penalty, but I’m under review to receive a newly enacted death penalty in May of this year. At that time the courts will decide if I can be given the new death penalty or a double life sentence. These two charges in Idaho aren’t the only ones I have. There are seven more in other states. Please let me explain why I did these cold-blooded, without any mercy, killings. In April of 1974, 11 men entered my home in Portland, Oregon, raped my 17 year old wife, who was three months pregnant at the time, then threw her four stories out our apartment window.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25811 Tue, 01 Dec 1981 00:05:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25811-death-on-the-wind We’re All Doing Time People ask me about getting gang-raped and whether they should defend themselves or submit. I can’t say to somebody, “Submit and don’t worry about it,” and I also can’t say, “Defend yourself and die.” That’s his choice to make. Mahatma Gandhi could and would have submitted because he was so non-attached to his body there was no degradation there, there was no undignity. And yet on the other hand, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce wouldn’t have submitted, he would have said, “Ah, this is a wonderful day to die.”

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27319 Tue, 01 Dec 1981 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27319-we-re-all-doing-time From Somebody To Nobody To . . . Do you hear what I’m saying about being a teacher? What I say to everybody is listen with your heart and if it doesn’t feel good, run like hell. And that includes me as well as everybody else.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24194 Thu, 01 Oct 1981 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24194-from-somebody-to-nobody-to An Interview With Ram Dass Disappointments are exquisite clues to where you’re holding. And if you want to awaken, a disappointment becomes a great thing, so you get to love them as much as you hate them. They’re hurting you, and at the same moment they are awakening you to how you’re clinging.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22580 Sun, 01 Jun 1980 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/22580-an-interview-with-ram-dass The Body Temple The human body is not an opaque, solid mass to be lugged around until it’s traded in for wings. It is an energy field that is constantly changing, a living sculpture, a mirror of ourselves, an instrument that may be more or less in tune.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25829 Sat, 01 Sep 1979 00:15:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25829-the-body-temple Sunbeams

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Suzuki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25852 Fri, 31 Aug 1979 21:17:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25852-sunbeams Small Press Review How many novels have you read lately that challenge stereotypes, while giving you characters you can love and hate, with a plot and an ending that satisfy both your sense of what must happen and what you wish would happen?

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25725 Thu, 01 Mar 1979 00:25:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/25725-small-press-review Doing What I Do It didn’t take long to see that I had no talent for making money. Sure, my mother was disappointed, but I figured she’d get over it. As the years rolled by, it became apparent that trees and eastern religions were my lot in life.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24567 Thu, 01 Mar 1979 00:10:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24567-doing-what-i-do Sunbeams

The best form is to worship God in every form.

Neemkaroli Baba

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27184 Thu, 01 Feb 1979 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27184-sunbeams Faces Of India The photographs in this selection are available as a PDF only. Click here to download.

]]> http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27233 Thu, 01 Feb 1979 00:00:00 -0500 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/27233-faces-of-india Selected Poems http://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24585 Sat, 01 Jul 1978 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/24585-selected-poems