A good method of meditation that will serve one well is Śamatha (Sanskrit: “calm”) meditation. The technique combines posture (asana) and breath work (pranyama) in order to control thought and reach a state of peaceful abiding. This is the foundation technique taught in Tibetan Buddhism and is analogous to Zazen…
Over the past 2,000 years, this self-analytic imperative evolved through the Catholic confessional and protestant witnessing of the declaration of sinful acts to the modern focus on the secular confessions of psychiatry and self-referential identity discourse. The West has limited itself to the knowledge of the subjective “I.” The Eastern…
Every magical act has a definite starting point. It wouldn’t make a good story, if it didn’t. When you pay attention, you just might be able to pinpoint the moment precisely. Immediately you sense that something has happened, a thing changed, a new mode begun. It is not that there…
The self is an enso circle drawn on the blankness of no-mind. The guru is simply a finger pointing at that calligraphic moon. In 1964 during an early meditation camp at Mt. Abu, the man who would later be known simply as Osho outlined his vision. “I see man engulfed…