Four things: during meditation, and more specifically a mantra session, we can expect four things to occur, and if any one of these are happening then we are in the midst of a successful meditation. There’s no particular order here, it’s not a sequence of events, and really these are…

Breaking open: each moment breaks from its own fullness, tenderness, a wish to hold all that appears within it, and yet only holding so much before succumbing to motion, shifting to a new expression and breaking open once more. Life is made of these breaking moments, never again instances of…

The promise of fulfillment: it started as a discipline, a means of achieving the end result of what I hoped would be a better life. I began to meditate for the clear benefits that the practice seemed to offer me, a promise of fulfillment that I had read about in…

With the quietness of the breath: sitting with the quietness of the breath, grown so subtle now as to barely feel it’s passing, my mantra just a pure vibration echoing all the way through me to the edge of what seems an infinite field of silence — and then…nothing, absolute…

Essence of yoga: it’s been said that the essence of yoga is found within a single asana, one pose held with steadiness and poise, a dedication to the mastery of stillness within the midst of motion. I love that thought, although I certainly don’t have the mindset to pursue that…

Point of notice: with everything cared for, each detail of realty happening on it’s own and without any effort needed to sustain it — the mantra easily leads me here, this point of notice where life occurs throughout every particle of my existence, that I’m completely engaged as both stillness…

As our salvation: karma is explained and literally translated as action, simplified as cause and effect, and commonly thought of as the golden rule, believing that we will reap what we have sown. Our former deeds have brought us here, living the consequence of our actions, and how we act…

No rules to follow here: what I’ve realized is that I don’t always need to be inspired towards a theme, nor a particular idea of which to write of, there doesn’t have to be any great meaning to my words. Neither is it from a sense of obligation to the…