The Journey of Awareness in Meditation
The mystic's goal is to control awareness in his mind.
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Meditation
Every teaching, story, and reflection filed under Meditation.
Meditation requires Effort
Effort is not something a lot of people associate the process of meditation with. Meditation is often mistakenly believed to be synonymous with relaxation, letting go, just being, observing and all…
Meditating, starting a business, falling in love and other how-tos
It's been six whole months since I have blogged. That was the longest hiatus I have taken since I started blogging shortly after leaving the monastery 7 years ago. In that time lots have happened.…
Bringing Life to Meditation
Recently in privately training someone how to meditate I spent the first 3 days not even talking about meditation. There is a lot to learn before one even begins to sit down to meditate. Everybody is…
How/when are you aware of the effects of meditation?
Affects of meditation come not from prolong practices rather more from quality practices. Sitting for long periods in meditation not necessarily produce result if the meditator does not know what he…
How long should I sit for when I meditate?
A couple of days ago we gave a response to the question "What are one of the first things to do when one wants to begin a meditation practice?" and we ended the blog post with the question “How long…
Meditation's first steps (Part 1)
What are one of the first things to do when one wants to begin a meditation practice?
Meditation Workshops in St. John and St. Thomas, USVI
This coming weekend I'll be conducting a series of workshops in the US Virgin Islands. I would love for you to join me if you are on the islands. Below is the schedule of workshops plus links (click…
How do I concentrate better?
The following question came in on email to me and below is my response.
I can't concentrate!
A question came in to me on email asking for some insights on concentration. "I can't concentrate. Please help."
How do I concentrate better?
Today's question on meditation comes in from Louise from the Philippines who asks "How do I concentrate better - I manage a good quality 5 mins at most with minor drifting but then my mind wonders…
How do you know a meditation technique is good or not?
On the 7th of January I was asked "what are the techniques of meditation" and responded to that on the blog. The natural next question to follow from that was asked...which was "How do you know a…
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