Meditation is a systematic technique for taking hold of and concentrating ot the utmost degree our latent mental power. It consists in training the mind, especially the attention and the will, so that we can set forth from the surface level of consciousness and journey into the very depths. ~ Eknath Easwaran
December 28th Daily Meditation Moment
December 28, 2020 by
We think that past and future are real because the mind keeps brooding over what we have done and what others have done to us, what we will do and what others will do to us. But it is not past and future that are real; it is our brooding on the past and the future that is real. If we could withdraw our attention from these ghosts, many of our problems would simply dissolve. ~ Eknath Easwaran
August 27th Daily Meditation Moment
August 27, 2020 by
We are shaped by what gains our attention and occupies our thoughts. Today, amidst all of the conditioning to the contrary, we need constant reminders of our higher nature, and that is why spiritual reading can be very helpful. The media drown us in such a low image of the human being that it is essential to remind ourselves constantly of something higher. ~ Eknath Easwaran
June 28th Daily Meditation Moment
June 28, 2020 by
When we get even the slightest glimpse of the unity of life, we realize that in tearing others down we are tearing ourselves down too. When you sit in judgment on other people and countries and races, you’re training your mind to sit in judgment on yourself. As we forgive others, we are teaching the mind to respond with forgiveness everywhere, even to the misdeeds and mistakes of our own past. ~ Eknath Easwaran
May 23rd Daily Meditation Moment
May 23, 2020 by
As long as we identify with the body and the mind we bob around on the surface level of consciousness, chasing after the fleeting attractions of life outside us. ~ Eknath Easwaran