Meditation

The wise Neo-Confucian Zhu Hsi (1130-1200) would recommend half a day reading and the other half quietly sitting.

A psychic medium told me he asked the Spirit World how best to communicate with it. The reply: “Come as to your mother.” I would just add the obvious, “Come as to your mother of love.”

There are two stages to meditation: the first is finding your Soul, and the next is then helping others to find theirs.

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)

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 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,

The basic principle of psychoanalysis is to say whatever comes into your mind, no matter how ridiculous or meaningless it may seem to be. For free association is the royal road to the unconscious. To the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate, that is.

But there is another unconscious, one far more important. It is

How are we to keep the meditative state induced in stillness, the inkling we have gained of the Buddha-Nature, continuing throughout the daily activities which follow? Yes, all of these should be, as the Bhagavad Gita teaches, a sacrifice to God; the whole day being lived as meditation in action, but how are we to

The word altruism was coined relatively recently, by Auguste Comte in 1858, from the Latin, alter (other). To me the essence of healing is altruism. The more I can surrender my ego, give up any self-centered desires, and concentrate wholly on the suffering

Hakuin Ekaku, the great Zen master made his life statement with his final piece of calligraphy: “a giant character for ‘midst,’ with the inscription, ‘Meditation in the MIDST of action is a billion times superior to meditation in stillness.’”*

Action Meditation: the Soul at work.

* Ed. Sushila Blackman, Graceful Exits (New