Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The first time I knowingly met a psychic she was talking about herbs, and it was as if I already knew what she was saying. Then she asked me to hold a patient’s arm while she healed her. I felt a tingling all through my body—and that night found my hernia was gone! I was

The Zen teacher says to meditate with a slight smile—an outward sign of the inner smile. The true smile comes from within.

The inward smile may not show on the face but it shines out through the eyes. We smile because we feel loved—smiled on by our mothers. And it is her love reflected back to

When making affirmations, either aloud or silently, always smile.

Not the hypocritical after-church external smile, but the deep, true inward smile that radiates into the face and sparks the eyes.

Like the baby’s smile to its mother, the true smile is your sign to God that you are grateful.

(2002)

The Australian psychiatrist Ainslie Meares wrote of visiting a 134-year-old yogi who meditated sixteen hours a day on a mountain top. He asked him if he felt pain. “Yes of course I do”—but then he added “but it doesn’t hurt.” Pain is a concomitant, an essential concomitant, of life. I like to think of all

What is the best posture for meditation? I have over a long time examined many meditators in all the usual positions recommended for meditation. Very often I find that they have put themselves into a state of unconscious negativity by the position. Of course, this defeats the very purpose of the meditation. They are rarely

I believe that All is Determined—by some Master Determiner or Planner—or whatever word you choose to use. Einstein similarly believed that we have no free will, although he impishly added that we should act as if we did. And Nietzsche believed so as well. Adding that the concept of free will was invented by those

The core teaching of the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedanta, as espoused by Shankara, is that All is One, there is no not-One.

It is only what he called illusion that prevents us Knowing this Basic Truth, and living accordingly.

This illusion, and all the countless ones superimposed on it, arising out of it, are

It was the example of Dr. Leadley, my invalid grandmother’s general practioner, that determined me to be a doctor, to be like him.

She was a cardiac cripple living in a constant state of borderline heart failure. What could he do in terms of modern medicine? Merely adjust her digitalis dosage. But

I believe that if there is a reason for me to meditate, it is to become Aware, hopefully one day Ever Aware, of the linkage to the Spirit World and beyond to the Force Divine, The Great Spirit, the Determiner of All.

One particular morning I was meditating in our bedroom,

When I ask for an example of a good marriage, I’ve yet to have someone propose his or her parents’. (In fact, few can give any good example!

Apart from the obvious problem of the lack of a positive marriage model – or rather, the presence of the very opposite – to emulate, there is another problem.

For