Success is a mindset: A lot of different ideas are floating around about success and how to achieve it. Probably there is more information out there in the world about how to succeed when compared to anything else that matters …
Say Goodbye to Distractions: The single biggest obstacle to living your life the way you want to is unnecessary distraction. Distractions come in all shapes and sizes, in fact most of what we experience on a daily basis on the …
Long Term Approach: It is very easy to keep looking at our feet to see where we are going, and forget the actual reason as to why we are going, and where exactly are we going. Life sometimes can be …
Behind closed eyes: Meditation has remained one of the most direct ways in which one can inquire into the nature of reality. In meditation, you don’t use words, you don’t philosophize, and you don’t chop things up; you simply see …
Beyond Thinking: Deep down, you have concluded that your life is significant only in your thought processes, while everything else that is happening around you is just an ordinary routine of life. This conclusion makes your life boring, and makes …
Being with the body: Instead of being occupied with your thoughts all the time, it is infinitely better to shift your awareness to your body. Your body is your shrine. It is the temple that holds the Truth called you. …
Pursuit of Emptiness: The entire effort involved in meditation is to find that absolute quiet zone within you, where your mind and body have no influence whatsoever. For every sensory experience, there is a corresponding zone of emptiness. Silence is …
The True Self: Every time you reflect on aliveness, it is done through the body. You wake up in the morning and think that the process of waking up and observing everything around you is aliveness. What if aliveness is …
Society & Spirituality: Survival is the basic necessity of human life, and it involves acquiring knowledge about people, environment, past, future and many other things. Only after this basic necessity has been fulfilled, can you look at higher knowledge such …
Conscious Choice: Spirituality is the only conscious evolution that is possible to you as a human being. Everything else in life simply happens, whether you are conscious of it or not. Life is more of a happening than a doing. …
Dare to be yourself: For a long time in human history, religion was the first and only source of information, knowledge and wisdom. A lot of your mental framework was built on the foundation of your religious beliefs. If your …
Not losing hope: It is very easy to be hopeful and enthusiastic about life when everything is going fine. Hope becomes all the more important and crucial when things are not going according to plan. Life at the core is …
Breaking through the illusion: If you are able to experience a single moment of discontinuity in this continuous flow of thoughts, continuous connectivity to the past, you will experience a transcendental reality which will give you a glimpse of who …
Science of Silence (Continued): At the same time, meditation is something more than just a science; it is a mystical experience. A mystical experience does not fall within the boundaries of linear time and logic. That’s why it’s mystical; …
Science of Silence: Meditation is very mysterious. It is scientific. It is precise. If you are dedicated to the practice, if you’re putting in the necessary time, the results will show. In that sense, meditation is spectacularly precise. Just like …
Learning Through Everything: So, supplement your meditation with knowledge, with reasoning, with logic, and with science. Keep inquiring about it. Find different teachers. Learn from different people. Just let go of your ego a little bit and learn from all …
Watching the movie of your life: Meditation is a little uncomfortable. It’s not like watching a movie; you can watch an engaging two-hour movie easily, but to sit and watch your thoughts for two hours is extraordinarily difficult, because it’s …
How to make time for meditation? Make a simple list of three or four things that you want to say no to. It could be saying no to sleeping eight hours a day. If you’re able to take down your sleep from eight hours …
Focus in a Chaotic World: What you want to do vs. what you can do When you pick up any new habit, be it meditation or something that you’re interested in like reading or a new hobby, you will quickly realize that there is …
Watching Your Breath: Watching the disturbance of the mind is the whole purpose of meditation. Relaxation will eventually happen as a natural consequence of observing and accepting your thoughts, but this won’t happen in a day or two – it …