Tag: Meditation
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The Weirdest Thing
The weirdest thing that seems to happen has never actually happened. I seem to have woken up from the dream state and, as a result, I really do believe and feel that I am the waker, an individual with a life to lead. Chalk this mistake up as the weirdest weirdness there possibly is. After…
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There’s No Questioner Who Asks, ‘Who Am I?’
There is no entity by [the] name of ‘mind.’ Because of the emergence of thought, we surmise some thing from which they start: that we term mind. When we probe to see what it is, there is nothing like it. After it has ‘vanished,’ Peace will be found to remain eternal. –Ramana Maharshi as cited…
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What Is The Yoga Of Relaxation?
What is the yoga of relaxation? The answer comes in this beautiful and astonishingly hard-to-find book entitled Yoga: Art of Relaxation (1979) by Wolter Keers et al. A preliminary and only very partial answer follows: 1. The first suggestion the authors make is that we open to tensions. While the latter remains undefined, we could say…
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Why Don’t I Know The Self? It’s Due To Thought
Dear A, Ramana Maharshi’s Reply Sri Bhagavan admitted the truth of the disciple’s statement and pointed out why the Self, though obvious, is yet [apparently–AT] hidden. It is the wrong identity of the Self with the body, etc. D.: How did the wrong identity arise? M.: Due to thoughts. If these thoughts are put an end…
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How To Turbocharge Your Meditation Practice
Dear W., You asked about how to turbocharge your meditation practice. Well, you didn’t use the verb “turbocharge,” but that’s the gist of it. My answer falls into four parts: Motivation All of us need to find–deep, deep within–our reason for doing something and, indeed, for continuing to do something. At some point, most secular meditators will…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 