Your mind processes what you perceive. Three capacities of mind work together for this: manas, buddhi and ahamkara. Manas – sensory engagement, buddhi – analysis, ahamkara – making it personal. “It’s about me!” Meditation takes you deeper, so you see the world from an inner center. An early stage...

As you settle deeper within, you expand into a familiar realm. It feels like you’re coming home to your own Self. Which is why it’s called Self. But it’s not a self that you construct by your thoughts or your relationships or your actions. It’s a deeper, more organic sense of beingness, of wholen...

Meditation is a process of looking inward. You get deeper in there, in here, getting past your mind to what yoga calls your own Self. Thus, you might think of your own Self as your inner Self, since you look within to find you. After teaching meditation for 8 or 10 years, I realized I had a probl...