Meditations

The clearest and purest understanding of Jesus I ever heard came from an old Chinese Buddhist woman who had fled her country during the Cultural Revolution. Not burdened with the…

I dislike the term ‘mystical experience.’ What happens during true meditation is neither mystical, nor an experience. It’s an event, a phenomenon that is new each time. The brain has the…

“The Omega point is a term used by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to describe the goal towards which consciousness supposedly evolves. He believed evolution was in a process converging in…

As Einstein proved, time is elastic, slowing down as the speed of light is approached. But if that is true of physical time, how much more elastic, and illusory, is…

There’s an old saying in the West that resonates painfully during this period of Greek and transatlantic challenge and testing: “We’re All Greeks.” It means that the basic foundation and framework…

Perhaps the most difficult thing for people to do, no matter what their cultural background, is to question together. It’s strange that such a natural action, which forms and forges…

Questioner one: Is the darkness and deadness in human consciousness, which can fairly be said to be human consciousness now, increasing, or being dispelled? Questioner two: Can we see human…

Meditation cannot begin until the brain lets go of its attachment to the observer. No trick or technique can cause it to do so. Only undivided observation loosens the bonds…