- Chapter 13, Text 01-02
- Gita 13.01-02 explained
- Where does Arjuna’s question at the start of the thirteenth chapter come from?
- Chapter 13, Text 03
- Chapter 13, Text 04
- Chapter 13, Text 05
- Chapter 13, Text 06
- Chapter 13, Text 06-07
- Chapter 13, Text 08
- Two characteristics of extremism
- Two kinds of extremism
- How NOT to respond to mistakes
- Using Ability with Humility
- Humility is a gaining of our intelligence
- Why humility is a vital ability
- Curiosity & humility: an empowering combination
- The price for becoming wise
- Be not holier-than-thou
- When contemplating our mistakes helps and when it doesn’t …
- Beyond pragmatic reasons for tolerance (Religious tolerance series 1)
- Two stages in valuing knowledge (From ignorance to knowledge series 4)
- The mysterious door to knowledge (From ignorance to knowledge series 2)
- How humility is non-different from curiosity
- Why champions of good causes are sometimes so intolerant (Thoughts on cancel culture)
- How to stop comparing and start contributing
- How humility protects us from the ego’s trident?
- War won, territory lost?
- Humility frees us from dependence on our own power and grants us access to God’s power
- Humility means to focus on how we can serve, not on what we deserve
- Those who are not humble often help us to become humble
- Humility is the pathway to Krishna, not the password to position in a power structure
- The ego can misappropriate everything, even humility
- Spiritualizing our relationships means decreasing our expectations and increasing our contributions
- In the war of egos, the winner is the bigger loser
- Don’t let victory in the battle against temptation come at the cost of defeat in the war for devotion
- Humility propels us on the journey from self-absorption to Krishna-absorption
- To grow in humility, stay rooted in reality
- Humility means to not let our ego come in the way of our purpose
- Accepting our smallness requires greatness
- Self-pity is not humility
- Cultivate humility not as the justification for shirking responsibility but as the inspiration for embracing responsibility
- The purpose of humility is to foster neediness, not helplessness
- Those who parade their purity accumulate the impurity of pride
- Humility doesn’t take away our self-respect; it helps us respect the self
- When we mistake self-pity to be humility, spirituality becomes an exercise in futility
- Use intelligence to know Krishna, not to show that we know Krishna
- Are we letting knowledge steal our humility?
- How an accountability vacuum can suck our devotion
- How humility boosts our self-esteem…
- Humility means to accept but not expect respect
- Resting on our laurels? No resting! Not our laurels!
- Hubris is the recipe for debris.
- Humiliation is false ego frustrated, humility is false ego rejected
- Humility opens the door to wisdom
- Chapter 13, Text 08-12
- Using Ability with Humility
- Humility is a gaining of our intelligence
- Why humility is a vital ability
- Curiosity & humility: an empowering combination
- Gita 13.08-12 explained
- Information is not enough in formation of character
- Chapter 13, Text 09
- The difference between humiliation and humility
- When philosophy seems pessimistic …
- How thinking about negative truths can stimulate positive thoughts
- How to go beyond denying and dreading death
- Contemplating death — life-denying or life-affirming?
- Death is meant to point to enlightenment, not be a plot point in entertainment
- We talk frequently about death without actually talking about death
- Ignorance of reality may be excusable, ignoring reality isn’t
- See the reality of our material situation – and see that reality is bigger than our material situation
- Life’s miseries are meant to be analyzed and addressed, not anesthetized
- Let the sight of death transform into insight about mortality
- A sanitized take on reality can’t take us to spiritual sanity
- Don’t just solve the problems of life – solve the problem that is life
- To reduce suffering to a spectator sport is to perpetuate our suffering
- A problem denied is a problem multiplied
- The futility of utility; the utility of futility
- When it requires courage to be afraid
- Science and Bhagavad-gita both go from the visible to the invisible
- We don’t have to stay suspended between the unknowable and the unavoidable
- Denying our blindfolds keeps us blind
- Chapter 13, Text 10
- Why relationships are so difficult
- How to be detached in our relationships
- When Krishna demonstrates how to apply his Gita teachings
- Attachment makes us psychologically rigid, detachment makes us psychologically flexible
- Commitment is emotional investment, attachment is emotional dependence
- Detachment is foundational for emotional intelligence
- Detachment is not hard-heartedness, but clear-headedness
- Chapter 13, Text 10-11
- Chapter 13, Text 10-12
- Chapter 13, Text 11
- The courage that may not look like courage
- Authentic = Shameless?
- What does Krishna’s characterization of knowledge mean for Arjuna
- How to use down-time positively?
- From outer news to inner news
- Transform depressing loneliness into nourishing solitude by seeking spiritual purpose
- More important than staying in touch with the world is staying in touch with ourselves
- Value those who value you and don’t overvalue those who devalue you
- Solutions that try to satisfy everyone usually sway no one and solve nothing
- Be mindful of people's perceptions, but don't make your mind full of their perceptions
- Let pleasing others be a decision, not a compulsion
- Happiness comes not by maximizing our possessions, but by minimizing our attachments
- When we are alone, we are alone with our worst enemy
- Monumental triviality is still a triviality
- Better to be on the wrong side of history than on the wrong side of reality
- Don’t waste extra thought on people for whom you are extras
- Contemplating the gravity of our purpose exposes the frivolity of our pride
- Are we mistaking solitary to be lonely?
- Chapter 13, Text 12
- Being aware that we are making assumptions
- Knowledge & values (From ignorance to knowledge series 3)
- Contextualizing absolute-sounding scriptural statements doesn't minimize those statements; not contextualizing minimizes them
- Education is meant to remove ignorance and restore innocence, not remove innocence and reinforce ignorance
- Thinking that thinking is troublesome, is troublesome
- Education centers not on building our resume, but on broadening our reality
- Education is meant for not just literacy or numeracy or prosperity; it is meant essentially for spirituality
- Life is not just a problem-solving exercise – it is essentially a consciousness-raising expedition
- To make sense of things by not thinking of the things that don't make sense is self delusion
- The obligation to endure gives us the right to know
- Activity, productivity and connectivity are no substitute for spirituality
- Study not to be seen by the world as learned, but to see the world with learned eyes
- Is education changing the teacher within?
- Don’t let lifestyle get in the way of living
- Chapter 13, Text 13
- Gita 13.13 explained
- Nectar is not a material thing to be ingested, but a spiritual truth to be relished
- Chapter 13, Text 14
- Gita 13.14 explained
- What does Krishna’s description of divine omnipresence mean for Arjuna
- We may go incognito, but we can never go invisible
- Chapter 13, Text 14-15
- Chapter 13, Text 15
- Chapter 13, Text 16
- We don't need to become good
- Far away from God
- Gita 13.16 explained
- Thought is perfected in thinking of that which is beyond the grasp of thought
- When Krishna seems far away, it is we who have strayed away
- Chapter 13, Text 17
- Chapter 13, Text 18
- Gita 13.18 explained
- Insight comes by catching sight of the link between things already in sight
- The conscience that dispenses with conscience is pseudo-conscience
- Chapter 13, Text 19
- Chapter 13, Text 20
- Chapter 13, Text 21
- Gita 13.21 explained
- Even if we have to live with pain, we don’t have to live in pain
- Events are not in our control, but experiences are
- The world determines our situations, but we determine our emotions
- Those who exaggerate material pleasure exacerbate material trouble
- Chapter 13, Text 22
- Shifting Focus from Illusion to Reality
- Gita 13.22 explained
- Why we need to improve ourselves
- To be awake is to be aware of our wake
- Be not human silkworms – be humans
- End your divorce from reality
- Chapter 13, Text 23
- Gita 13.23 explained
- Mistakes that even God can't fix?
- Spitting at destiny? Bad idea
- Are we seeking control or grace?
- We can't change our past, but we can change how we see and explain our past
- Everything that happens may not be God’s plan, but God can make his plan work through everything that happens
- God is the supreme controller, but not the sole controller
- Our life’s quality is determined not by how we look, but by what we look forward to
- Krishna’s supervision happens by his super-vision
- Work – don’t carry workload
- Evil arises not from Krishna's intention, but from the soul's volition
- Krishna’s purpose is not to catch us when we do wrong, but to catch us when we fall
- Krishna knows the ultimate inside story – and he keeps it inside
- Are we conscious that Krishna is conscious of us?
- Spiritual enforcement reaches where legal enforcement doesn’t
- The Lord within is neither an active imposer nor a passive spectator; he is a proactive selector
- Chapter 13, Text 24
- Chapter 13, Text 25
- Chapter 13, Text 26
- Gita 13.26 explained
- What does the complex philosophy of the Gita’s thirteenth chapter mean for Arjuna?
- For protection amid pandemics, seek not just a hand sanitizer, but also a mind sanitizer
- Ditch the road that ends in a ditch
- Hearing is the heart of healing
- Our fears increase with our years – and decrease with our ears
- Hear to become aware of the savior who is ever here
- Chapter 13, Text 27
- Chapter 13, Text 28
- Gita 13.28 explained
- Mind your mind before you mind anyone else’s mind
- Equal disposition doesn’t mean identical action
- We see not by staring but by hearing
- Chapter 13, Text 29
- Gita 13.29 explained
- Are we living in a hall of mirrors?
- The mind burdens us and deems as burdens those who offer to relieve our burdens
- If we let our mind devalue our efforts to improve our life, it will end up devaluing our entire life
- The feelings that emerge from the mind can’t be evaluated by the mind
- The mind can make us blind, even when our eyes can see
- The vision of the one in everyone grants liberation
- We suffer not because we are last but because we are lost
- Chapter 13, Text 30
- Chapter 13, Text 31
- Chapter 13, Text 32
- Chapter 13, Text 33
- Gita 13.33 explained
- How to deal with our emotions
- Life may be full of problems, but we don't have to be one of them
- To say that consciousness is unknowable is to say that consciousness is knowable
- Don’t take life so personally
- Chapter 13, Text 34
- Gita 13.34 explained
- Consciousness is the energy that enables us to experience all energies
- Subordinate the empirical and the rational to the scriptural
- Chapter 13, Text 35
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