Just a moment...

Is there a specific bodily sensation that is associated with this experience, and can you say “yes” just to that sensation? Give yourself a minute to consider that and to see if you can. Don’t rush. * Have you seen anyone in your family struggle with something like this experience, and if so can you bring that memory to mind with the purpose of loo

Dwelling meditatively in the different and expanded sense of self that the process of inquiry opens will make it less likely that habitual self-views are so easily reestablished once this particular experience ends.

Practicing Buddhist meditation is not a way of avoiding society or family life. The correct practice of mindfulness can help us bring peace, joy, and release both to ourselves and to our family and friends as well. Those who practice mindful living will inevitably transform themselves and their way of life. They will live a more simple life and wil

brahmavidya is not intellectual study. The intellect was given full training in these forest academies, but brahmavidya is not psychology or philosophy. It is, in a sense, a lab science: the mind is both object and laboratory. Attention is trained inward, on itself, through a discipline the Upanishads call nididhyasana: meditation.