The Art of Developing Concentration in Meditation
Those who lack concentration can acquire it; those with an inherent ability can improve what they already possess.
Feeling at Home on the Path: An Interview with Ethan Nichtern
As Buddhist practices and philosophy attract renewed interest in these quickening postmodern times, where’s the curious explorer of consciousness to start? Ethan Nichtern has written a guide that contextualizes ancient teachings while making them accessible to a contemporary audience.
Retreat, Renewal & Rejuvenation: A Process of Spiritual Development
Emergence is a process, not an object. New capacities and openings occur in relationship, not in isolation. We strengthen our hearts and our core, and we cultivate tenacity and resilience to allow, to let be, and to let go.
What Is the Relationship Between Meditation and Transformation?
You live your whole life anchored to a narrow range of thoughts, feelings and sensations, and suddenly you find yourself floating in midair. Nothing is more exhilarating or mind altering than the freedom you find in true meditation.
Please Don’t Start Meditating (Unless You’re Willing to Change)
If you’re one of the two gazillion people aiming to launch a meditation practice in this new year, this warning may sound appealing. Take it from me: meditation will change you – but not in the way you may originally have suspected.
The Formless Speaks
We are incessantly, relentlessly, tirelessly telling ourselves stories; constantly attempting to categorize and match everything we experience against some (coherent) storyline playing out in our minds. That is why certain forms of meditation prove so challenging
The Biology of Enlightenment
I am aware of the points of contact of the body with something else; I am aware if there is a tension in a muscle; I am aware if I feel pain somewhere; I am aware of the heart beating or of the breathing. But all these are like dots. If I say that I am aware of the shape of the body, I am putting a line across all these dots and saying that is the shape. But it is not me. It is an assumption, an image.
The Advantages of Meditation for Students
Meditation is proved to not only bring harmony and happiness to people’s lives, but also to have some practical advantages. Numerous researches showed the connection between meditation and the progress in studies.
The Peter Russell Interview
In 1982 Peter Russell coined the term “global brain” with his 1980s bestseller of the same name in which he predicted the Internet and the impact it would have.
Ken Wilber Talking on Ayahuasca, Psychedelics and Meditation
Here Ken Wilber offers his take on the role of entheogens in transformative practice, particularly Ayahuasca. What do you think? And what are the “techniques of ecstasy” you employ?
