Flashy experiences in meditation are not signposts. You are just awakening certain layers of the mind, which produce all the stars and colors. It could very easily be done with a mallet on the head!

Meditation brings you back to your totality Whenever a person can exercise his totality in any action, then be sure to know that this is a form of meditation. Most people don’t get answers because they do not still themselves sufficiently for the answer to come. Each of us is responsible for that. If I […]

Meditation is not, and never could be a form of escape from reality. Drug taking is an escape from reality. Meditation is a way to make you face reality. The efforts of drug taking and meditation are directly opposite. One forms dependence, the other forms independence.

Proper meditation creates that openess of heart through which you dive deep within; and in diving deep within, you develop and express greater and greater waves of love in the environment and in your home. Meditation makes life beautiful.

The purpose of meditation and mindfulness is to experience truth. We don’t want to know about truth—for that you go to a university.

If you are a Christian, become a better Christian. If you are a Buddhist, become a better Buddhist. If you are a Jew, become a better Jew. Meditational practices have nothing to do with religion.