Individual Talks
These 3000 Individual Talks were originally spoken as Series of Talks, published as chapters of books.
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The Discipline of Transcendence
Talk #5 from the series Dancing in the BreezeAlso Available As: eBook"Consciousness is like a lake: with waves it becomes the mind, without waves it becomes the soul. The difference is only of turmoil. Mind is a soul disturbed, and soul is mind silenced. The mind..." Learn More -
The Essence of Zen
Talk #5 from the series The Path of the MysticAlso Available As: eBook"It is one of the most significant questions that can be asked. The small word zen contains the whole evolution of religious consciousness. It also represents freedom from religious organizations, from priesthood, from any kind..." Learn More -
The Master of Silence
Talk #10 from the series A Bird on the Wing"The key to all teachings, not only of a Buddha but of all masters – Jesus, Mahavira, Lao Tzu – cannot be given through verbal communication, the key cannot be delivered through the mind. Nothing..." Learn More -
The Most Excellent Way
Talk #1 from the series Finding Your Own Way"Gautam Buddha is like the highest peak of the Himalayas, like Gourishankarone of the purest beings, one of the most virgin souls, one of the very rare phenomena on this earth. The rarity is that..." Learn More -
The Pull of the Other Shore
Talk #3 from the series The Diamond Sutra"Therefore, Subhuti, listen well and attentively, says Gautama the Buddha. These are strange words – strange, because Buddha is addressing a bodhisattva. They would not have been strange if they were addressed to an ordinary..." Learn More -
The Security of Insecurity
Talk #1 from the series The Vol. 06 Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha"Gautama the Buddha is talking about the very essence of buddhahood: the height of buddhahood and the depth of it, the glory and the grace, the tremendous freedom that it brings, the light that it..." Learn More -
Therapy: An Opening for Meditation
Talk #14 from the series The Great Pilgrimage: From Here to Here"The role of a therapist is a very delicate and complex affair.
"First, the therapist himself suffers from the same problems that he is trying to help others with. The therapist is only a technician...." Learn More -
There Are Two Paths: Everyone Must Choose
Talk #16 from the series Vol. 1 The Ultimate Alchemy"Witnessing is not a mental activity; thinking is a mental activity. Rather, it would be better to say that thinking is mind. When the mind is not, when the mind is absent, when the mind..." Learn More -
When Silence Enters
Talk #1 from the series Zen: The Diamond Thunderbolt"Maneesha, Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. It is one of the reasons why it has not grown into a vast tree around the world, but..." Learn More -
Witnessing: The Base of all Techniques
Talk #15 from the series Vol. 1 The Ultimate Alchemy"Witnessing is the technique for centering. We discussed centering. A man can live in two ways, he can live from his periphery or he can live from his center. The periphery belongs to the ego..." Learn More
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