I believe – fervently – that there is within each of us a Deep Unconscious of Pure, Pure Love, beneath the usual superficial unconscious of admixed love and fear. It has been called the Soul, the Buddha-Nature, the God
This may well be the best description of Healing. The healer opens his heart, his love pouring out from him to enfold the sufferer, to bring him into his expanded aura.
How are we to explain a melody that suddenly pops into our head? One possibility is that we have heard it recently, if only subliminally. Or maybe we are reminded of it by having just heard
I look at the blank piece of paper on the desk before me. It is all yin, all passive. And then at my pen as it starts to write—as it starts to write this sentence you
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
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
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
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
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
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
