Friends. On Sunday, December 17th, at 11:00 a.m., Swami Nirmalananda Giri, abbot of Atma Jyoti Ashram, will speak at the San Diego Vedanta Society, on "Swami...
The generation and propagation of the divine knowledge is not a waste. Certainly, all will not change. A few will partially change. One or two in this minority...
Hello group, My name's Sean. It was about three or four years ago,after a 7 year relationship crashed and burned,I started reading about self-realization.The...
Hi Sean, The best piece of advice anyone can give you is to practice awareness meditation. Every spiritual master that has ever walked the earth has taught to...
Hello Sean, The body popularly known as Sean goes to sleep. The body popularly known as Sean wakes up. While this alternate waking and sleeping carries on till...
Dear Sean, Don't give up and don't be discouraged. My first question is "do you have a teacher?" There are so many ingredients for successful meditation and...
Thanks for all the responses.What I'm looking for,I guess,first is a clear head and a clear perspective on life,so that I may make decisions from the outside...
Hi Sean: I'm glad you found some answers. I had the same issue you had. My problem was mind racing. I just couldn't stop it. My mind seemed to think that...
Hi Sean, my first impression about you is that you have too much anxieties on your life that are keeping you from focus. Remember how much time Buddha himself...
If you have trouble concentrating or keeping your mind still, here's what I do: look for a silent place (I love to do it in my closet, it is big, totally dark...
some say to try to find a place not between the eyes always but also you can try to have a place in your heart as focus instead. that might help. all paths...
and just by trying - is a good thing like this quote: STRIVE Strive. Strive to realise God. This is the purpose of human birth. The perfection of the...
And do it fast... the way things are going, Earth may not last long enough for much more life cycles... if things are hard now, imagine in 200 years from now...
Abandon attachment...but how? Ignorance is the basis for attachment. The ignorant mind clings to what it believes to be true about something and then moves...
Friends, "If you practice these instructions correctly, then you will gain the razor-sharp sword of wisdom, a form of one pointed concentration where quietude...
Some have said that meditation is just quieting the mind, having no thoughts. Wah Shan taught that meditation was about having no thoughts, not even awareness...
Thanks Cheryl, This board has een fantastic so far,i can see i made a great decision to join> My problem(if you can call it that lol)with "visuals" thus far...
... You're very right Daniel.Without going into too much detail and boring you with the details of my personal life,the sudden loss of my job followed by a...
To answer an email requesting my feeling/thoughts about death, here is an article that appeared in our newsletter The Inner Traveler (issue#10). I hope it (and...
Sean, I was in a similiar situation as you recently. When it got to the point I couldn't keep focus on my focus point (my breath), I threw myself to the...
I've been interested in doing this for a while. Maybe we could schedule a distant group meditation monthly or maybe even weekly. We would meet at a scheduled...
Good to hear Ven! I started meditating to help me sleep/relax but it has turned into a great spiritual tool. ... the pasat 4 years.I got so much resutlt fue to...
My mom and I are starting a new hobby, candle making. Is there a really good book on candles anyone can recommend. I want a book about colors and scent that...
"The truth is not that where heaven is, there God is. The truth is that where God is, there heaven is. Therefore, you, as awakened, intelligent beings, endowed...
The photo section now has 2 new pictures in the Zen and the Art of Knifemaking albums (pics 15 and 16). The first is a 12 1/2" long maple burl handled knife ...
From our web site, Meditation Station, http://www.meditationsociety.com for Christmas, we share this trio of techniques that deal with visualization of a...
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