Transcendental Meditation: My Story

October 10, 2014

I began my “Journey to the East” in 1971, when I paid $35 to get initiated into Maharishi Mahesh’s Transcendental Meditation (TM). I received a mantra – Aing Namah – and simple meditation instructions: Just repeat the mantra in a relaxed unforced way, and be still, without making any real effort to do so. After […]

Celibacy: The Great Aid to Meditation

September 9, 2014

As a spiritual teacher, the complaint I most often hear from students is: “I don’t experience spiritual energy (or Shakti or Kundalini). What should I do? My answer to these students is: Practice celibacy, which means abstaining from both sexual intercourse and masturbation. The practice of celibacy is not about morality; it’s about energy. Simply […]

The Buddha’s Meditation Instructions, Part 2

August 26, 2014

In addition to teaching Jnana Yoga, the neti-neti  practice of disidentifying from the five skandas (form, feelings, sensations, perceptions and dualistic cognitions), the Buddha also taught mindfulness meditation. Because the Buddha’s mindfulness teaching is germane to all schools of gnostic Buddhism, I will use it to explain Electrical Buddhism. The Buddha taught four ways of […]

The Buddha’s Meditation Instructions, Part 1

August 13, 2014

Gautama Buddha instructed Buddhists to contemplate various things that would help them to develop distaste for and detachment from worldy things. For example, he recommmended contemplating the human body as a piece of rotting flesh, destined for inevitable disease, death, and decomposition. But though the Buddha recommended various contemplations, he taught just two essential meditation […]

The Feeling of Being

July 25, 2014

The Hindus talk about the “feeling of Being,” which many Buddhists disparage as less than the experience of Ultimate Reality. I differ with the Buddhists and side with the Hindus. As I see it, the feeling of Being is analogous to the experience of Nirvana, which is, at least temporarily, the cessation of becoming, which […]

Food for Thought-less-ness

July 18, 2014

If you are a meditator, it is important for you to pay attention to how food affects your meditation, because, as the truism has it: the mind feeds on food. Eat bad food in large quantities and your disturbed digestive system will result in disturbing thought-forms. Eat healthful food in small quantities and proper combinations and […]

The Full Moon and Meditation

July 12, 2014

Look up in the sky. The moon is virtually full. Is this spiritually significant? Yes, it is, because spiritual energy flows freely on full moons. This is especially self-evident to anyone who has awakened Kundalini. So be sure to devote extra time to meditation when the moon is full. Why does spiritual energy flow freely […]

Crisis, Disturbance, and Struggle, Part 2

July 6, 2014

This is a continuation of my blog post from last week. I’ve included a couple of quotes from Ramana Maharshi in this post. “Meditation is a fight. As soon as you begin meditation, other thoughts will crowd together, gather force and try to overwhelm the single thought to which you try to hold. This thought […]

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