'Meditation' Category

Guru Dakshina and The Dynamics of Worthy Enquiry

Dear Meditators,
I had wanted to write an essay to elucidate a subject that otherwise could be awkward and thorny. Its writing was triggered by a student, bless her heart, who cornered me after a meditators’ knowledge meeting. In addition to describing her financial challenges to meet our course fee to attend a retreat, she felt [...]

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    • Averting World Disasters

    I often get very thoughtful questions from meditators that represent experiences that may be shared by other meditators.  Knowing that you are having experiences in common with other meditators, and my answers to these questions might be beneficial to many of you.  I therefore like to share these exchanges with our community from time to time.  [...]

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    • The Benefits of Advanced Techniques

    In Vedic Meditation, an Advanced Technique is designed to take one’s awareness to that stratum, that layer of consciousness, that comprises the interface between thinking and pure silent consciousness.  
    During meditation, sometimes we experience a state where the mind is virtually in the “no mantra, no thought” condition, and yet we are experiencing something that [...]

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    • Meditation Raises Kundalini

    I often get thoughtful questions from meditators that represent experiences that may be shared by other meditators.  Knowing that you are having experiences in common with other meditators, along with my answers to these questions, may be beneficial to many of you.  Therefore, I like to share these exchanges with our community from time to [...]

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    • The Purpose of Meditation

    We should re-examine ‘the purpose of meditation’.   To do this, first we must clear away preconceived ideas of “what should be happening during my meditation”.
    In this meditation, we do not try to control our experience.  What we want is to transcend control, to let go, to allow Nature’s intelligence to take over.  That is why [...]

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    • The Power of Regular Meditation

    We can feel the stress increasing in the collective consciousness of our countries and of our world.  We read and watch daily the effect of the collective unhappiness of billions of individuals.  Perhaps we feel the effect of that collective stress tarnishing our own lives – in our family dynamics, in our own bodies.  It [...]

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