Monthly Archives: January 2010

Detaching ourselves…from ourselves

Friday, January 15, 2010

When all we have to face is the ordinariness of our everyday lives, our discussion often turns inward.  We try to figure out our own identity, our own moral character, our own relationships, or the dilemmas that arise between our ideas about religion and the world around us.  But sometimes the questions aren’t about us. [...]

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Living Morally Without Universal Morality

Saturday, January 9, 2010

A lot of the discussion on Swadharma focuses on how to be sure that we’re doing the right thing: How do we live a moral life?  So we decide that we want to live morally for various reasons, but how do we decide that what we do actually is moral?  If your definition of moral [...]

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Strength and Selflessness

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Many of us have written on this subject before, but I think it is a topic worth touching upon repeatedly.
Karma yoga encourages us to immerse ourselves in selfless service; yet, Swami Vivekananda’s advice on how exactly to do that is somewhat vague. He encourages us to be selfless, asking us, “Are you unselfish? That is the [...]

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