You have been having experiences since you were born, since before you were born. I will congratulate you, for you are fulfilling one of the purposes for which you were born – to have experiences. You are in the world so you can have experiences and get enlightened. Pleasurable experiences make y...

You have been having experiences since you were born, since before you were born. I will congratulate you, for you are fulfilling one of the purposes for which you were born – to have experiences. You are in the world so you can have experiences and get enlightened. Pleasurable experiences make y...

Thoughts happen in your mind. Dreams happen in your mind. Sleep happens in your mind. And, there is a deeper dimension to your own being that is always perceiving what is going on in your mind. Who is that? Who sees your dreams? I have had, quite wonderfully...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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...