Shiva is the god of the yogis, self-controlled and celibate, while at the same time a remarkable lover of his spouse. He is the destroyer, following Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver. Shiva is responsible for change both in the form of death and destruction and in the positive sense of destroying the ego, the ...

The final step in integrating meditation into your Awareness is to use the stuff of daily life as part of your meditation. There are ways of perceiving the World and the way you live in it such that each experience brings you more deeply into the meditative space. At the same time, this kind of meditation requires ...

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts I mean specifically chatter in the skull ... perpetual and compulsive repetition of words ... of reckoning and calculating. I’m not saying thinking is bad. Like everything ...

Meditation is one of the greatest arts of life - perhaps the greatest art. Because in the understanding of meditation there is Love, and Love is not the product of systems, of habits, of following a method. Love can not be cultivated by thought. Love can perhaps come into being when there is complete silence. And the mind can ...

We have been running around far too much. It's all right; we've been active, and our action has achieved a lot of good things. But as Aristotle pointed out long ago - and this is one of the good things about Aristotle. He said 'the goal of action is contemplation.' In other words, busy, busy, busy, busy, ...

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain - Emotions do not live in the heart; the heart is just a pump, a pretty important one, of course. Emotions invariably are formed in the mind, in certain parts of the brain. From the mind these emotions - fear, anger, stress, elation, anxiety, ...

Just before Buddha died somebody asked him: 'When a buddha dies where does he go? Does he survive or simply disappear into nothingness?' Buddha has been reported to have said: 'Just like a white cloud disappearing ...' A white cloud is a mystery, the coming, the going, the very being of it. A white cloud exists without any ...

Greed, hatred, and delusion are known as the three poisons, the three unwholesome roots, and the three fires. Greed refers to your selfishness, misplaced desire, attachment, and grasping for happiness and satisfaction outside of yourself. Hatred refers to your anger, aversion and repulsion toward unpleasant people, circumstances, and even toward your own uncomfortable feelings. Delusion refers to your ...

Mind wandering, independent thought, spontaneous thinking, free associating, creative imagining are some of the terms to describe what occurs to your mind when you notice its functioning, or when you allow it the freedom to be in its natural condition: open, aware and spontaneously fluid. Freedom of mind is being increasingly declared as undesirable. Seduced by a ...

Maintaining balance in a busy World can be a challenge. Learn to let go of old habits that no longer serve you and create more balance in your lifestyle, your mind, emotions and spirit. Learn ways of dealing with painful emotions and develop new skills that can change the path you are currently on and therefore ...

In Hindu philosophy, Mauna means silence, taciturnity, silence of the mind, inner quietude, Samadhi and the Absolute Reality. The Hindu texts insist upon proper understanding of silence by experiencing it through control of speech and practice. the Dictionary gives the meaning of the word, Silence, as absence of sound; abstention from sounding, speech, mention, or communication; a time of such ...

Recording artist whisperer and all-around wizened sage Rick Rubin contemplates life and art on the stunning cliffs outside his Malibu residence. Rick Rubin ruminates on living in harmony with nature, the importance of recreating its perfection in art, and the transcendental power of sound before leading us into a guided meditation, a practice he has followed ...

The Ego or Self is nothing but a construct of the mind, to give you a sense of a unity, of a Self, of being different from others, something that makes you feel separate from others. It does not even exist, it is an idea, a concept, a label in which you believe. The most you ...

The key to an advanced state of Consciousness is the Ego – or rather, the absence of the Ego. Our sense of time passing is a function of the Ego. Young babies have no sense of Ego, and therefore no sense of time passing. Young children only have a weak Ego structure and so only have a ...

Every present moment is the happiest moment. You only have to realize it. Happiness is already at your door, you just have to open the door and our heart to let it enter. It is already within you. The simplest and easiest way to feel the happiness within you, and make yourself instantly calm and happy ...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life, living is ...

You are constantly looking at your smartphone, you are up all night on social media, you are low on energy, you have a busy mind and you are considering doing meditation to find more balance in life. You have heard a lot about meditation but you are just not sure what it is all about. ...

The accumulation of material wealth and large bank accounts mean nothing at the moment of death. In actuality, the entirety of life is a preparation for dying. Living totally in the present moment allows you to create a fulfilled life and to face your impending death openly and with dignity. The realization that death can arrive ...

Now as you do this, you begin to notice a rather curious change in your general feeling of life. You notice that there ceases to be what I would call an interruption or an interval between your experience and yourself.You see, in our ordinary way of using our minds the chronic sense of strain, the ...