What Is True Meditation?
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in…
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Writings about meditation and practice, including the Come Home with NASA, Now series. 24 pieces, newest first.
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Thinking is Injurious to Mental Health
I had this picture on the desk for a while. It was drawn to look like a cigarette, with the orange filter and a little smoke at the end, and a warning in…
Read teaching →How To Achieve No-Mind (aka Meditation)
Zero resistance + zero desire = Meditation. no mind Our minds can only be still, i.e. entertain no thoughts when we’re not seeking or resisting anything.…
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A Bonus Practice: Come Home with NASA
Part 3 brought NASA and HOME together. This bonus add stays with NASA alone: about nineteen quiet minutes through Now, Alert, Spacious, and Aware, with soft silence between each landing.
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Come Home with NASA, Now. Part 3: A Sixteen Minute Guided Meditation
NASA and HOME together as one daily practice, with my voice to guide you.
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Come Home with NASA, Now. Part 2: HOME, One Word for the Breath
I share HOME, the one word companion to NASA that came to me whole in meditation, where a silent OM rides the in breath and me rides the out breath.
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Come Home with NASA, Now. Part 1: A Small Practice for Returning to Now
I share the four letter NASA practice I have used for years, Now Alert Spacious Aware, with a gentle finger to thumb touch and my voice guiding you home in under five minutes.
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You Are Already That for Which You Long
You are already that for which you long. Rupert Spira I come back to this line often, because so much of my own searching has been a reaching outward for a peace I thought I had. ·
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Thinking is Injurious to Mental Health
I had this picture on the desk for a while. It was drawn to look like a cigarette, with the orange filter and a little smoke at the end, and a warning in letters that seemed to. ·
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How To Understand Reality…
Reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one’s own life. – Franz Kafka reality Reality is what’s happening when we pay attention to it. Are we. ·
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How We Self Sabotage!
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. – Sally Kempton saboteur We have an internal saboteur, a gremlin, who keeps rearing its ugly head, several times a day. ·
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Why We Must Allow…
Something wiser than you is trying to get through to you. – Vernon Howard allow Inside us resides a spark from the infinite. This light represents the holiest of the holies and. ·
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Why We’re Art…
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. – Nikki Giovanni art & artists God is the master poet who writes profusely and with abandon. It is. ·
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Why Forgive?
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. – Suzanne Somers why? Forgiveness enables deep healing to occur inside us. It’s a healing that makes the mind sane and the body healthier.. ·
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The Archer and Us…
One goal, which becomes clearer as we progress, is to detect and eliminate self-contradictions. – Vernon Howard the archer A story from Vernon A teacher and his disciples were. ·
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How To Make The Heart Light
Always be first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. – Dan Zadra self-hate What do we not like about our own selves? How does this dislike for self translate to. ·
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Why Be Loud?
If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. – Emile Zola loud? If you ask anyone around me they’ll tell you I prefer quiet. ·
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Why Be Thoughtful?
Thoughtfulness is the beginning of great sanctity. If you learn this art of being thoughtful, you will become more and more Christ-like, for His heart was meek and always thought. ·
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How To Be Master Of Self!
Your awareness of yourself is greater than yourself. – Guy Finley self Self is where we live, amidst our thoughts about us and alongside opinions of everyone and everything! We. ·
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How To Be Still!
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present. ·
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Who And What To Imitate…
All art is but imitation of nature. – Seneca beyond comparison We compare self to others. We often imitate people that we find impressive. Sometimes that becomes a vocation! Why. ·
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Why We Must Forgive…
Those who feel they are victims will be most eager to make victims of others. – Vernon Howard victim? How do we feel when we’ve been victimized? It gets us mad and we feel awful.. ·
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Why No One Is Ever Wrong!
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him find it within himself. – Galileo you’re wrong We’re told that we must be transparent and say it like it is. Nothing wrong. ·
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When Are We Good Enough?
At what point are we good enough? When are we self-improved enough to accept ourselves? – Question when? In some ways we’re never good enough, because we aren’t perfect yet! But. ·
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Why Desire A Quiet Mind?
The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) FYI: Hosted site is acting up lately, so you’re not receiving blogs via subscriptions fix promised soon! a. ·
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Why There’s No Need To Worry!
If you pray, why worry? If you worry, why pray? – St. Padre Pio worry? Set an hourly timer and ask the following questions of self: What was my dominant thought the last hour?. ·
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Master of the Universe
Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. – Virgil The Cause of Things. ·