Breathing Breathing Exercise: Calm Balancing Breath
Sit comfortably or lie down in a comfortable position. Let your body relax and bring your mind to the awareness...
Meditation Meditation Stories: The Bird’s Eye
About 5000 years ago the great acharya (teacher) Drona decided to test his students' skill in archery. To test their...
Meditation Meditation Stories: The story of Zazen
Once a Zen master noticed a monk trying too hard to meditate. So he interrupted the monk and asked: "What...
Life style Memento Mori – Memento Vivere
Memento Mori a Latin phrase meaning "Remember Death" has been – since the mediaeval times – an anchor used philosophers...
Meditation Five ways MEDITATION Apps ruin us
Meditation and mindfulness have been around for thousands of years, with their origins in Dharmic traditions such as Hinduism and...
Meditation The Essence of Meditation
Meditation is not an abstract or remote state unnatural to humans. In fact, it is the most spontaneous and natural...
Meditation Why Meditate? The most IMPORTANT reasons
Why Meditate? This is a very interesting question because at once most people need some reason to do something but...
Meditation What is Meditation? A philological and theological exploration.
The word ‘Meditation’ is one of the most misused rather abused words of the English vocabulary. It is so mistreated...
Breathing Breathing Exercise: Calm Balancing Breath
Sit comfortably or lie down in a comfortable position. Let your body relax and bring your mind to the awareness...
Breathing Breathing Exercise: Continuous or Wave Breathing
When we create involuntary pauses either at the inhale or exhale our awareness is also interrupted and broken. Hence a...
Breathing Breathing Exercise: The Tactical Breath (Box breathing)
This is a very ancient yogic breathing method made popular by Navy SEALs, they call it the tactical breath. I...
Breathing Breathing Exercise: The Sigh of Relief (Stress Relief)
This breathing exercise is particularly good for stress relief. Whenever you lengthen the exhalation it stimulates the vagus nerve and...
Breathing Breathing Exercise: Becoming Aware of the Breath
Breathing really matters. An average person breathes anywhere between 12 to 20 times a minute, which is around 23000 breaths...
Meditation Meditation Stories: The Bird’s Eye
About 5000 years ago the great acharya (teacher) Drona decided to test his students' skill in archery. To test their...
Meditation Meditation Stories: The story of Zazen
Once a Zen master noticed a monk trying too hard to meditate. So he interrupted the monk and asked: "What...
Stories Meditation Stories: The inexperienced woodcutter
Once upon a time, an unemployed man approached a timber merchant for a job but he was neither much educated...
Stories Meditation Stories: A King teaches AWARENESS to a monk
Once a spiritual seeker approached his guru and said "Sire! After years of sitting meditation, I still haven't attained unbroken...
Stories Meditation Stories: The Monkey Mind
A spiritual practitioner once on a casual visit was asked by his Guru how are his spiritual practices going on....
Stories Meditation Stories: Nature of Bondage and Liberation
Once a Sanga (spiritual gathering/group) of ascetics was travelling from one village to another and they came across a flooding...