A man in the thirteenth century talks to three masons working on a building site. He asked each one what he was doing. The first man replied, “I am cutting stones to make a living for so my wife and children can have a roof over our heads, clothes to keep us warm and food [...]
Continuing with our series of different meditations, we get to the “bless you meditation.” This is a wonderful meditation to practice whenever you’re stuck in a line or traffic jam.
It is very simple:
Say silently to each person you see, “God bless you.”
Send out unconditional love to all in the universe.
Soon you’ll notice that the more [...]
Continuing our series on meditation and the fact that walking is one of the best overall exercises known to humanity, we get to walking meditation. Here you walk slowly with full awareness in the present moment.
Thus you pay attention to everything that is going on both inside and outside yourself. You pay attention to your [...]
Continuing our series of meditations we get to karma meditation. This is being in the moment when doing anything. It can be practiced all the time.
Karma means action and karma yoga is one of the eight different yogas. Yoga means yoke or union with the ultimate reality (the Godhead).
In karma meditation or karma yoga you [...]
This is Wayne Dyer’s version of Japa meditation which is a form of mantra meditation using Hindu mantras. According to Wayne Dyer all names of God contain the sound of God "Ahh."
This is partially true as the name of God the creator in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 1 in the Old Testament) is the Elohim. [...]
Yesterday I wrote about meditation. I mentioned that basically you concentrate on an object and you do not try to do anything and sooner or later your mind will wonder from the object of concentration and you simply return you mind back to the object of concentration.
Meditating on your breath is derived from Zen Buddhism. [...]
Yesterday I wrote that you could be happy by being happy – happiness is a state of being and not of having as many imagine. I mentioned that meditation is a great way of getting in touch with your inner truth and to be happy.
So what is this meditation business?
Meditation is a way of quietening [...]
