Bliss is Being Choicelessness

All our choice, all our decisions, end in dilemma.  Continously moving from 1 extreme to the other.  Continuously thinking, continuous thoughts. Continously not accepting the present moment.  Whatever you think and what you can’t think.  Whatever you experience and whatever you can’t experience.  The root of the mind is dilemma. All our choices end in [...]

Reconciling painting with my meditation practice

When we talked during TTC about the Patanjali sutra 1:28 “Tajjapah Tadartha Bavanam” (“Say Om / Do things with feelings and full dedication”), I thought about a painting that I did few years ago (below). When I paint, I try to paint with my heart. I dig deep into myself, into my inner feelings and [...]

Dhyana (Meditation) and Your Brain

Probably like many before me, my foray into meditation was motivated by a need to calm my mind, ease the overwhelming torrents of anger in my chest, etc, etc…you get the picture… Well, after having meditated regularly for about 2 months..something has changed. it is subtle. There were no fireworks or grand realisation. There is [...]

Hip-hop mogul speaks at Rice Simmons promotes book on meditation

We wish to hear from all the people about meditation and its impact on people’s lives. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7522736.html

Meditation; Physical and mental benefits

Meditation is a state of consciousness that can be understood only on a direct, intuitive level. Ordinary experiences are limited by time, space, the laws of causality, but the meditative state transcends all the boundaries. while a person meditate, past and future cease to exist. There is only the consciousness of I AM in the [...]

Meditation and Medicine!! Which is more effective?

Meditation More Effective than Morphine for Pain Blog by Granny Med (10 Hours Ago) in Health / Alternative Medicine There has long been anecdotal evidence that relaxation techniques such as meditation are effective in coping with and managing various difficult health problems, including pain. But new evidence to be published in the “Journal of Neuroscience,” links meditation with brain [...]

Yoga Citta Vritti Nirodhah: reaching an inner peace

Yoga citta vritti nirodhah means to reach an inner peace in the mind and to stabilize thoughts and disturbing emotions. Given that yoga is a combination of physical movements which at the same time combine controlled breathing, practicing yoga citta vritti nirodhah allows a syncronized flow to occur during the movements. It provides a more meditative approach to yoga [...]

Meditation

It was only when I looked further into what Yoga was before I found out asana’s were only one of the eight parts of what yoga really is. Something I was very happy to experience during YTT was the exposure I got to meditation. From a young age meditation was always an area of confusion [...]