The method is simple. You have to do 2 things: 1. Be aware of the many ways in which your mind loses its natural peace (in other words, watch your mind) 2. Tune into your mind’s natural peace Now, our conditioning is such that we believe that perfect personal peace is impossible or […]
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When you allow a glass of muddy water to stand, the mud slowly settles revealing a layer of clear water. So it is when you allow your mind to be ‘still’ by, for example, watching your breath. The thoughts, feelings, sensations, images and everything else that generally streams through your mind settles like the mud
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Most of us accept the need to wash and nourish our bodies everyday. We know that there is dirt and waste that we must get rid of and we know that we must provide the body with air, water and food to keep it functioning. And we know that good air, good water and good
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If you understand that thought directs energy, you will understand that dwelling on the same thought keeps energy stuck. Let’s look at some practical implications of this. When you keep thinking, ‘My knee hurts’ or ‘I have a weak bladder’ or ‘I can never make enough money’ or ‘My relationships never last’, while each
We have given a name to everything – people, objects, sensations, feelings, phenomena. As soon as we know the name of something, our experience of that thing is mediated through that name and all the accumulated information held therein. When I see something, the initial nanosecond of just seeing it is instantly overridden by the thought/label,
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The approach to truth has to be a subtle one, just as the approach to peace or joy. You can’t sledge hammer or charge your way to any of these. Then again, you might realize that the ‘journey’ is never a journey in time or space but a shift in the state of consciousness, from
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It settles the conditioned mind, allowing thoughts and feelings to settle like mud in a glass of muddy water, thereby revealing the clear water mind, the natural mind. It enables you to practice non-attachment and non-aversion by merely observing thoughts, feelings, sensations, images etc to arise and naturally fall away without getting caught up in
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Why do we feel anxious, disempowered and overwhelmed and how can we remain anchored in peace, joy and certainty? The short and complete answer is that we are not anchored in truth, in the essence of our Being, in Love and we must spend time in this truth, in our essential nature. But let