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...

How can you tell if the spiritual teacher is the real deal, or simply someone after your money? First, they had a teacher, who authorized them in the lineage from which they come. Also, they make the teachings available for free, so anyone can study with them. Most importantly, you assess their w...

The world is based on reciprocal adaptation. So if someone compliments your new haircut, you feel good. And if they say something less flattering, you feel bad. You’re like the ocean waves, always rising and falling, even crashing into the shore and flattening out. Here’s the secret, how to get f...

Measuring, analyzing, evaluating, comparing – this is Maayaa. This is what keeps your brain busy, always sorting and ranking things, and people… You do this in shopping, looking for the best product at the best price. You do it with other people, always judging, comparing and contrasting, seeing ...

All this month I’ve been talking about Maayaa, the Divine Energy that manifests as the universe, getting you caught up in, tangled up in, turned upside down and twisted around in, all of the variations and permutations and idiosyncratic weirdnesses that exist in the world, and that happen in your...

Are you looking outside for your bliss or are you looking inside? It’s a familiar story. Your mind concocts a plan to do something that will make you happy. Let’s start with something simple, even healthy — maybe to eat a raisin. A plain raisin. Just one. OK, two. You have planned that it will ma...

Measuring, analyzing, evaluating, comparing – this is Maayaa. This is what keeps your brain busy, always sorting and ranking things, and people… You do this in shopping, looking for the best product at the best price. You do it with other people, always judging, comparing and contrasting, seeing ...

Suffering is inevitable. Well, things are going to happen. But you don’t have to be suffering when they happen. You can take them in stride when you have a deeper inner center. When you have a greater inner capacity...

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Maayaa is the power that manifests the universe. Maayaa is a great and glorious energy, Divine Energy, morphing herself into seemingly mundane objects and beings. This is the energy that becomes atoms, yet it presents itself as physical matter. The table seems solid and stable, yet it is made of ...

Are you looking outside for your bliss or are you looking inside? It’s a familiar story. Your mind concocts a plan to do something that will make you happy. Let’s start with something simple, even healthy — maybe to eat a raisin. A plain raisin. Just one. OK, two. You have planned that it will ma...

A lot of the yogic texts talk about Transcending ego. But what is ego? How can you transcend it if you don’t know what it is?
The purpose of transcending ego is to find a greater quality of being. A more expanded, inner sense of beingness. The place you look for that, according to the yogic sages...

Maayaa is the power that manifests the universe. Maayaa is a great and glorious energy, Divine Energy, morphing herself into seemingly mundane objects and beings. This is the energy that becomes atoms, yet it presents itself as physical matter. The table seems solid and stable, yet it is made of ...

Today we celebrate the lunar anniversary of my Guru’s mahasamadhi – his maha (great) samadhi (merging into Consciousness). I had 7 years with him. I was one of many that he sent away just a few weeks before his mahasamadhi. I was in Spain, helping with the Ashram in Madrid, but had taken a few da...

Whatever you’ve got, you’ve created for yourself. Oh, other people may have helped you along the way. How wonderful. But, you don’t get anywhere, you don’t attain anything, unless you apply your mind. So, whatever you are applying your mind to these days, that’s what you are becoming. Is that a ...

Today is the Ashram’s 16th birthday. Happy birthday to us. Sixteen. I remember waiting for my 16th birthday, the magic age where I would get my driver’s license and gain freedom. That’s what I wanted – not the drivers’ license but freedom. That’s what I’ve always wanted – freedom. That’s why I be...

Today we celebrate the lunar anniversary of my Guru’s mahasamadhi – his maha (great) samadhi (merging into Consciousness). I had 7 years with him. I was one of many that he sent away just a few weeks before his mahasamadhi. I was in Spain, helping with the Ashram in Madrid, but had taken a few da...

And the goal is to know the truth of your own Beingness, whether you serve in the role as teacher or not. So it’s described in the texts that you become the Guru. It doesn’t mean you need to take on the job, it means you attain the state. For a Guru does you no good at all unless they are establi...

Today is the Ashram’s 16th birthday. Happy birthday to us. Sixteen. I remember waiting for my 16th birthday, the magic age where I would get my driver’s license and gain freedom. That’s what I wanted – not the drivers’ license but freedom. That’s what I’ve always wanted – freedom. That’s why I be...

I'll compare life to a giant disco ball. A giant disco ball, with lights bouncing off the tiny mirror, turning turning turning, while the beat goes on. Chasing the little bits of light as they dance around the room, you dance, you leap, you even think you’re having fun – but what you’re really d...

Your natural state is bliss. When you’re in bliss, nobody ever asks, “Why am I in bliss? What made this bliss happen?” But when you’re in pain you say, “Why am I in pain? What made this pain happen?” When you’re sad you go “Why am I sad?” When you’re angry you go “Why am I angry? But when you’re ...

Before anything existed, before the universe existed, before the Big Bang, something existed, something that could somehow, somewhen — bang. We call that something — Shiva. Absorbed within, being Beingness, abiding in the bliss of pure Beingness, for eons beyond measuring, then Shiva began to hum...

I'll compare life to a giant disco ball. A giant disco ball, with lights bouncing off the tiny mirror, turning turning turning, while the beat goes on. Chasing the little bits of light as they dance around the room, you dance, you leap, you even think you’re having fun – but what you’re really d...

If you’re not in bliss, Why? If you’re not enlightened yet, what’s in the way? Your essence is Divine. You don’t become Divine. You already are. You just don’t know. So there’s blocks that keep you from perceiving, enjoying, your own Divine Is-ness. And the good news is...

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