Look up the word “dieting” and what you find is: “Restricts oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight.” What a pity! The act of dieting is reduced merely to weight reduction. In India food was given extraordinary attention. So much so that the Upanishads called it divine: “Annam...
Close your eyes and visualize your backbone “Let the backbone be straight, erect. Visualize it, see it, and just in the middle of it visualize a nerve, delicate as the lotus thread, running in the center of your spinal column. “In the spine, just in the center, there is a silver cord – a very...
I Find It Difficult to Work and Meditate Each Day. It Is Easier to Work a Lot, Then Spend Some Time Meditating. “You don’t understand the mechanism. In fact, one should continuously change, because the brain has many centers. For example, if you do mathematics, then a certain part of the brain functions and the...
Meditation for a More Deeply Refreshing Sleep “You may not be sleeping well in the night. Very few people are sleeping well, so when you have not slept well in the night you are a little tired during the day. If that is the case, then do something with your sleep. “It should be made...
Say Yes: A Meditation “Life cannot be lived through no, and those who try to live life through no simply go on missing life. One cannot make an abode out of no, because no is just empty. “No is like darkness. Darkness has no real existence; it is simply the absence of light. That’s why...
A Meditation to Connect with Your Voice “If you choose according to your own inclination, according to your own intuition… [the inner voice] is very strong in children but, slowly slowly, becomes weaker. “The voices of the parents and the teachers, the society and the priest, become louder and louder. Now if you want to...
“With mouth slightly open, keep mind in the middle of the tongue. Or, as breath comes silently in, feel the sound “HH.” “This technique is concerned with focusing on the tongue, in the middle of the tongue. With mouth slightly open – as if you are going to speak. Not closed, but slightly open as...
When you feel anxious, anxiety-ridden, what is one to do? “What do you ordinarily do when anxiety is there? You try to solve it. You try alternatives, and you get more and more into it. “You will create a bigger mess because anxiety cannot be solved through thinking. It cannot be dissolved through thinking because...
Look for the Gaps and Discover What It Means to Become Aware “If You Meditate on Open Unclouded Sky, Suddenly You Will Feel That the Mind Is Disappearing, the Mind Is Dropping Away. “There will be gaps. Suddenly you will become aware that it is as if the clear sky has entered in you also....
Just as you have the impulse to do something, stop. “You can try it anywhere. You are taking your bath – suddenly order yourself to ‘Stop!’ and stop. Even if it is only for a single moment, you will feel a different phenomenon happening within you. You are thrown to the center and suddenly everything...
