Losing Love

Meditation, Sufism

There’s a part of us that wants to resolve certain questions. It is like math homework, except it is metaphysical homework. Unconsciously we want to know something about ourselves…for example it could be…’how strong am I?’…’will I be ok, if my parents abandon me, if my husband cheats on me, if my children leave me? am I loveable?’ matter collects in a pattern that shows where the energy is and creates an experience in the external world that then educates you about who you are.

Do you have a burning, metaphysical or spiritual question? drop me a line at ssaima@gmail.com and I will address the question through this blog.

20 golden truths

Meditation

Buddha’s Sutras have brought me comfort and given insight again and again. His subtlety may mean that people miss the depth of his teachings, yet they have persisted for thousands of years. His face or rather what we think is his face, is often used for decoration in our age of spiritual materialism, yet he…

Our wound is our healer

Meditation

Emotional mastery through meditation does not mean not to feel any negativity or to say or do nothing that is negative. It also doesn’t mean that being positive is unreal. When Buddha speaks about life being suffering–it isn’t a negative statement. It isn’t even a positive statement. To Buddha, all experience was subjective. All experience…

Honesty and Positive Thinking

Meditation

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

  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?

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…