No Sh*t, the book
Sitting Silently Doing Nothing
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…
The Subjective “I”
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…
Beginnings
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…