Your relationship to meditation, reflects your relationship to yourself and your life, and vice versa. If you relate to your life or yourself as a problem needing to be solved, you will look at meditation as a problem needing to be solved. You will continually be trying to

I Am Timeless Being “I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past, or imagine the future. With desirelessness comes timelessness." Nisargadatta

The one who believes themselves to be thought will always be restless, always searching. But the one who recognizes that they are not thought, but the awareness in which thought appears, is already home. There is no need to search for peace. Peace is what you are.

You awaken to your humanity, not to escape it.

Morning in paradise.

The universe loved you so much, it gave birth to you. The same creative force is in you. The same love is in you. Love is always the case, inherent, and fully available. You just have to be available to it. You have to be available to life, to ourselves, to what is real

There is a saying in alcoholics Anonymous (AA), that “your best thinking got you here”. It means that despite your efforts with thinking and intellect, ultimately none of it has worked and so you find yourself in an AA meeting. This is in no way a bad thing, quite the reverse

Right here, right now.

So I am driving to a meditation retreat and pass by a jogger. He is running, with earphones in, and holding his phone in front of him - watching it. If you practice meditation, you are incredibly courageous. People will do anything to avoid being with themselves in an

I had a teacher once who recommended doing at least one embarrassing thing every day. I find it very easy to follow that teaching. Life is eccentric, and often mad. Allowing and valuing those aspects in ourselves is both fun and freeing.

We often think healing begins when we start gathering the pieces, trying to put ourselves back together again. But sometimes, the deeper invitation is simply to pause. To see the scattered fragments as a pattern forming. What felt like breaking was a reordering by the hand

Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments of right or wrong, neither staying nor going. This, then, is the Great Way. ~ Huineng

Authentic meditation practice is totally unglamorous. You literally just sit there doing nothing. It's pretty common to either get bored shitless or be so agitated you want to jump out of your skin. There's nothing entertaining about it whatsoever. And yet it's the most

Life has your back: It breathes you. It makes your heart beat and blood flow. It allows you to feel. It grows you. Surrendering to this is the function of meditation. Once you let go of control you realise you are completely OK, and there was nothing wrong in the first

If you can be with yourself during the excruciatingly boring moments in meditation, you will discover unparalleled inner journeys and experience profound transformation.

Mindfulness and meditation are a gentle reminder that we are completely OK, whole, and worthy of love - just as we are. We can spend so much of our life thinking we are a problem, or other people are a problem, or the world is a problem - or all three are a problem! Unchecked

The end of seeking.