The Way of the Heart

n the stillness, the beloved visits. You have to be careful to be really still, so still, like a cat watching a canary, ready, alert and waiting. What if the beloved comes, yet you miss that moment, because of the busyness of your mind?. And instead of the sighting of the guru you barely smell the aroma, because just at the moment when the worlds unite, your attention wanders to what’s for dinner tonight, or you forget to breathe?

Honesty and Positive Thinking

These days almost everyone has become aware of the idea of positive thinking. Positive thinking is preferred over negative thinking—at least in the new age healing circles. Blogs and social media pages are full of advice about how to be more positive—all this need for positivity comes because of negativity. Only when people are somewhat…

Meditating without meditating

  Meditation is the art of detachment from the thoughts in the mind. For most of us this is a difficult thing to do, we are so used to being driven by the thoughts in our head, rather than ourselves driving the thoughts. Our thoughts create the level of happiness, success and satisfaction in our…

What is the purpose of meditation?

The purpose of meditation is to clear the mind of habitual thought patterns-our thoughts arise because a deep sense of separation lies at the very root of our experience of being human. When we are able to feel this separation, it is a great blessing, even though it can feel very scary at first. This…