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You Are Not a Prisoner
Q: Why is it important to practice meditation consistently? A: You meditate to remind yourself that you are not a prisoner. If...
Is Meditation Boring?
Q: I have been practicing leave the mind and emotions alone, but I often find meditation boring. A: In order for the experience of...
A Realm Beyond Measurement
With meditation, you can't push. Meditation is one of those things that cannot be forced. You just have ot make yourself...
Peace is Not the Ultimate Answer
It continually amazes me that the majority of spiritual seekers from the most affluent countries on our small planet seem to be looking...
Why Do You Meditate?
You meditate to remind yourself that you're not a prisoner. If there is power in your meditation, if your experience of the ground of...
Becoming Truly Independent
Many people have told me that they find something and then lose it. They wait and they seek, and then find and lose it again. Most of the...
The Attention That Arises From Caring
Bare mindfulness, or attention from moment to moment, is a good technique as far as it goes, but I don’t feel it’s enough, unless you,...
What is Ego?
"What is ego? Ego is the deeply felt sense of being separate and superior. Indeed, it is an emotional and psychological compulsion to see...
The Evolutionary Impulse
It is a very rare moment indeed when the evolutionary impulse -- that mysterious urge toward unbounded freedom and our own potential for...
Five Tenets of Life
The five fundamental tenets of [a full life]: 1- Clarity of Intention The first tenet, Clarity of Intention, is the foundation of the...