Tagged with Meditation

This music brings Hermetic and Buddhist insights into a contemporary setting where they interact in a relevant way with our media-saturated culture, transforming ambient urban noise into a complex meditation. (more)

The bodhisattva way of life brings connection, love, and compassion into every facet of our lives. You don't have to be a Buddhist, a theist, or anything in particular to benefit from these perspectives. (more)

Krystle Cole is well known for her informational videos about psychedelics.  Her website, Neurosoup.com, addresses a broad spectrum of entheogens, entactogens, and other little helpers for greater understanding of the bigger picture of life.  (more)

The greatest protection against the evil aspects of wetiko is to be in touch with our intrinsic wholeness. In Buddhism, the wholeness of our true nature is likened to a mirror, which reflects whatever is put before it but is never tainted nor stained by its reflections. When we are in touch with our true nature, the evil of wetiko cannot ‘touch' us. (more)

Random thoughts rained down on me like multi-colored confetti. It took a huge effort to keep sitting and not storm off into the wilderness. I could feel toxic residues seeping from the subconscious and was constantly in the churn of a great battle, entirely within my own head till only the Witness remained at the edge of a swirling vortex. (more)

[RS Singles] • Let's face it: of all the people that you and I know who have spent a good deal of their lives sitting on meditation cushions, chanting in Sanskrit, gulping psychedelics like M & Ms, and subscribing to The Yoga Journal, how many have achieved the pinnacle of human possibility that all of the great spiritual teachings insist is available to anyone? (more)

Silence is our psi lens. Only in inner silence can the source of consciousness be realized. This ultimate source is the key to understanding reality. Our current form of science lacks this key. We must create a true and complete psience in place of our defective materialist object-centric science.  (more)

Lucid dreaming beckons us to awaken within our nocturnal dreams -- to become aware that the dreamed persona that we think is us, along with all other dream phenomena, are illusory. Dream yoga asks us to go further, to awaken to the true nature of an analogous situation that we mistakenly call "waking reality." (more)

During meditation your brain changes, your blood chemistry changes, your stress level goes down, your muscles relax, your heart beat slows, your blood pressure decreases, and your sense of well-being increases. Not bad for 20 minutes. (more)

Without a clue as to where to go or what to do with my life, I took a dart and threw it at a map. It landed on Park City, Utah. There I went, having never traveled that far west before. I checked into a hotel. That's when I experienced my first out-of-body experience. (more)

Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as spiritual progress.  Like anything else, as you practice, you get better at it in terms of observable changes to the mind. If you do the work, it happens at its own pace.  You can't rush it, but you needn't supervise it either.  (more)

Successful meditation is doing it, developing gentleness toward yourself and enough awareness to know what's happening when it's happening with a non-judgmental attitude. Progress happens when you start to recognize what you're feeling when you're feeling it. (more)

We all want to change the world for the better. Even political nut jobs want this; they just want the world to resemble their personal vision of it. When you slow down and ponder how to make the world a bit better, you may come to the same conclusion that so many Buddhist masters have come to: we must base change in compassionate wisdom, not speed and aggression.  (more)

While reflecting on Buddhism and Burning Man, I learned of a wildfire encroaching on a meditation retreat. It's an analogy for our crisis. As temperatures rise and natural systems decline, can people of conscience (and privilege) afford to spend so much money and time playing on the playa? (more)

With a background in punk rock and Japanese monster movies, Brad Warner isn't your hippie aunt's idea of a Zen master. In this interview, Warner discusses his latest book, an attempt to bridge the divergent terrain of contemporary sexuality to Zen's approaches to morality and sexual relationships. (more)

We live in a reality completely inverted from any known in the historic past. The perverse morphing of the social matrix itself has intervened to block our path of growth. This leaves one last option -- that of opening the wormhole in spiritual space between chakra one and chakra seven. (more)

I vividly remember the intensity and significance of our first meeting.  He would often do an exercise with new students that involved sitting across from one another, eyeball to eyeball, with the instruction, "Anything that comes into your mind that you don't want to share with me, share with me."  (more)

We live in a greedy, competitive society with a strong belief in "self" and expectations of a perfect life, and we have a lot of anger. Instead of venting anger, or rejecting it as "un-spiritual," or dumping it on someone else, you can work on it internally. Here's how to do it. (more)