Meditation and Living in the World

How far can I get in my meditation practice while continuing to live in a busy world? This is a question often asked, and the answer is . . . it depends.

Improving Your Meditation

Some tips on how to make your meditation more successful and more powerful including reading books about spiritual masters, trying new exercises and placing great intensity on your meditation

Stirring Up Mud - Part 2

Our body is reminiscent of a comfortable house built near a raging river where we must live, knowing well enough that a flood could wash it away at any moment. It would be foolish not to consider escape routes when living in a house threatened with disaster, because when the time comes to leave, how would we be ready to get out in time? Therefore, since we can't rely on our impermanent body, shouldn't we invest in something we can trust, something that will be there for us when our body fails, which is not long from now, as it's beginning to rain and the water is rising.

Guide To Meditation

Meditation is not easy. If you think that closing the eyes and trying to stop the mind is meditation, then you can try it. But you will not be successful unless you have developed very strong will power. Without the power of anashakti, vairagya or non-attachment, meditation is very difficult to practice. However, unless and until that happen you will have to work through the practices systematically, stage by stage.

Top 7 Tips for Inner Peace

Tips for attaining inner peace. Value peace more than anything else. What we give our attention to will generate a certain force. If we feel inner peace is the most important thing then we will make it become a reality. If we want inner peace we will not allow anger and frustration to rob us of our equanimity.

The Benefits of a Meditation Teacher

In many walks of life when we are learning something for the first time, we will take the help of a teacher. For example, if we want to learn to play the piano, we will find a good piano teacher. Similarly, to make the fastest progress in meditation and the spiritual life, it is advisable to take the help of a spiritual teacher. A qualified spiritual teacher acts like a personal guide, showing us how to enter into deep meditation.

Understanding Your Electric Body Principle Two

Your electric body has a unique signature. The three main sections of the electric body are the nervous system, digestive system and the tissue system. The charge that sparks the flow comes from the same source for all of us - electromagnetism in the air and then more specifically in the body. Bio-electromagnetism is undeniably one of the fascinations each of us has about who we are and how we work and why we work the way we do.

Is Your Mind Churning Like the Waves?

Imagine a body of water. At the surface can be waves and ripples and churning water. In the case of the ocean there is continuous motion of wind and waves, tides coming in and going out. Yet, beneath the surface deep within the water is a place of complete stillness. No matter how wicked the surface may appear, even during a storm, deep within the water there is stillness and calm. Imagine your mind is a body of water. Is your mind like the surface going every which way full of churning and waves and disturbance?

Gayatri Mantra Chanting and Spiritual Experiences

Due to devoted and regular Gayatri Mantra chanting a divine light manifests in ones psyche which dispels our inner spiritual darkness. Just as soap washes off the dirt on our clothes and just as a broom removes dust in our homes similarly Gayatri Mantra is that divine 'soap' washes off our mental taints. Gayatri is such a divine miraculous 'broom' that it removes all taints, shortcomings, attachments, likes, dislikes etc from the 'room' of our psyche.

Secrets of Meditation, Part 2: Letting Go

In the late Seventies I journeyed to an ashram in India to learn to meditate, to find out who I was, and to clear the cobwebs from my mind. I was trying to get off the substance abuse joyride, at the same time suffering from an advanced case of existential angst.

Moulding Your Future With a Bedtime Meditation Technique

It may not please the meditation purists, but a quick and simple meditation at bed time can work wonders. It can even help you solve problems and carve out your future.

Inner Freedom

A simple meditation practice that cultivates inner peace and freedom.

A Short Guide to Meditation

Meditation is an exercise and practice where we seek to discover our own inner Source. Through meditation we can learn to identify with a vast, infinite consciousness that embodies peace, light and abiding satisfaction. Everybody has these divine qualities of inner peace and joy, it is just that at the moment we are not aware of them. Meditation is our conscious effort to experience these qualities and make them part of our nature.

How To Learn Tai Chi Online From Ancient Masters

The western world is overworked, overstressed and illness is epidemic. Tai chi is proven to make dramatic changes in people lives.

Learn Meditation

Meditation is a method of bringing peace and harmony into the hectic and confused lives of people. It is an effort to make life better by ensuring physical and mental well being. However, meditation bestows the best results when it is carried out voluntarily and is not a forced effort. It is possible to learn meditation from accomplished teachers, guides or even through books or audiovisual aids. It helps to have an open mind towards learning the techniques and the fundamentals of meditation.