“Meditation does not involve discontinuing one’s relationship with oneself and looking for a better person or searching for possibilities of reforming oneself and becoming a better person. The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one’s confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view. That is [...]

“And when He sees me in all and sees all in me, Then I never leave Him and He never leaves me. And He, who in this Oneness of Love Loves me in whatever he sees, Wherever He may live, In truth, He lives in me.” -The Bhagavad Gita In a recent dialogue with a [...]

© Nicholas Hlobeczy Poet Rainer Maria Rilke writes: “Try to love the questions themselves. … Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” To question is life itself. I wrote this ten years ago. And understand it more clearly [...]

Let’s start within the framework of evolutionary biology. The more hardship a species endures, the more primed for survival it is. The same can be said for our own spiritual evolution. Those of us who can endure hardship are more primed for spiritual expansion, not just survival. That’s what these practices are all about. They [...]

I’ll admit it. I’ve found myself completely appalled and disgusted by the yoga industry’s recent forays into mass marketing, branding, and rock music (hence the term “industry”). The tension of trying to stay authentic while trying to make a living is becoming more noticeably uncomfortable. My initial reaction to yoga advertising and consumerism is to [...]