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You Are Not a Prisoner
Andrew Cohen
Q: Why is it important to practice meditation consistently? A: You meditate to remind yourself that you are not a prisoner. If there is power in your meditation, if your experience of the Groun...
Is Meditation Boring?
Andrew Cohen
Q: I have been practicing leave the mind and emotions alone, but I often find meditation boring. A: In order for the experience of meditation to be endlessly fascinating and infinitely compellin...
A Realm Beyond Measurement
Andrew Cohen
With meditation, you can't push. Meditation is one of those things that cannot be forced. You just have ot make yourself available, and we do that by being still, being at ease, and paying...
Peace is Not the Ultimate Answer
Andrew Cohen
It continually amazes me that the majority of spiritual seekers from the most affluent countries on our small planet seem to be looking for one thing above anything else: Peace. Peace? Why on earth wo...
Why Do You Meditate?
Andrew Cohen
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 being is deep and profound, you will discover and rediscover, ove...
Becoming Truly Independent
Andrew Cohen
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 time, seekers are trying to rediscover or re-attain something ...
The Attention That Arises From Caring
Andrew Cohen
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, whoever you are, care about your own effect in this world and...
What is Ego?
Andrew Cohen
"What is ego? Ego is the deeply felt sense of being separate and superior. Indeed, it is an emotional and psychological compulsion to see and feel the self as being separate from and superior to the o...
The Evolutionary Impulse
Andrew Cohen
It is a very rare moment indeed when the evolutionary impulse -- that mysterious urge toward unbounded freedom and our own potential for radical transformation in this life -- arises in awareness, un...
Five Tenets of Life
Andrew Cohen
The five fundamental tenets of [a full life]: 1- Clarity of Intention The first tenet, Clarity of Intention, is the foundation of the authentic spiritual life. It states that in order to succeed in...