In my last post I ventured into the fascinating area of science on the edge, either the edge of discovery or the edge of foolishness, depending on one’s point of view. In this post I’d like to delve deeper into on-the-edge, not in relation to the material world but rather in relation to the inner [...]
Category: meditation
An awesome amount of material has been written in recent years about the physical, psychological, and emotional benefits of meditation. I know from personal experience that such benefits do accrue to those who meditate. As marvelous as these benefits are, there are aspects of meditation even more wonderful that transcend material existence, going beyond the [...]
This is a guest post by the artist, Alayna Rose. When I was a kid there were times when this feeling would come over me, surround me. I didn’t realize what was happening. All I knew is that half an hour or forty-five minutes later I felt very refreshed, rested. It was a feeling of [...]
Meditation is breaking out all over. Doctors are meditating and advising their patients to meditate. I advised my own doctor about meditation years ago, and now he’s advising his other patients. Knowledge of the physical and emotional health benefits of meditation is widespread, and becoming more so. Lower your blood pressure, reduce stress, reduce anxiety, [...]
Decades ago, I had a friend, an intellectual, a fellow American, who knew a lot about India, its religions, its obscure languages, its culture. He once declared to me, Americans want to possess enlightenment. This insight was so accurate that it has stuck with me all these years. I can’t pretend that I haven’t gone [...]
Let’s say we’re making a machine that will save the world. Don’t ask me how, let’s just say that’s what we are doing. Let’s say that’s our responsibility and our destiny. Let’s say that while we’re working on this machine we have in our fingers a special little gizmo, a transistor, say, that is the [...]
On Thursday I promised that if you read my previous post to the end I would tell you how to overcome the Obstacles to meditation. If you read to the end you noticed that I didn’t tell you jack squat because that was Part I. Just to clarify that I wasn’t lying. A common misconception [...]
When I wrote about meditation in an earlier post, I didn’t mention the many possible Obstacles to keep you from your modest goal of becoming an enlightened forest monk by the middle of next week. Cripes, you’re just sitting there, aren’t you? How hard can that be? Very hard, unless you read this to the [...]
In the last post I wrote about lists as programs for our lives. The source of lists, as it was presented, is the conscious mind. There’s a whole ‘nother way of looking at it. Part of the joy of meditation lies in both the feelings that manifest and in experiencing the subtle energies that rise [...]
Several years ago I gave a speech titled “Open All Doors, Take from All Sources,” in which I encouraged my audience to embrace Life in all its fullness. The speech didn’t go over, either because they might have thought I was talking about opening all doors and robbing people blind, or because the audience had [...]
