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What is the difference between prayer and meditation?
June 5, 2020

What is the difference between prayer and meditation?

Schools of Thought When I hear someone speak of meditation I automatically think of a Buddhist. Yet, when I hear the word prayer, I think of a Christian. What is the difference between prayer and meditation? Are they the same practice just called by different names? The reason I am splitting hairs over these two [...]
4 Tips to Help You Cope with Fear
March 28, 2020

4 Tips to Help You Cope with Fear

How to Handle Fear In psychology we find the concept of social contagion. This is when a person copies a certain behavior of others - these days it is fear and panic. Every single person who can stay calm and handle fear will support the collective in dealing with the worldwide challenges. NY times Fear, [...]
Bridging Yoga and Zen
March 24, 2020

Bridging Yoga and Zen

Building Bridges Both yoga and Zen are aimed at discovering who we are beyond the thinking mind, or the conditioned self. Both try to help us find freedom from our mind and bring us to a more intuitive, inner life — taking action as needed while living in the present moment. There are, however, some [...]
Yoga Philosophy Part XI: Enlightenment
July 23, 2019

Yoga Philosophy Part XI: Enlightenment

Enlightenment - Freedom from the cycle     “If you think you are enlightened, go and spend a week with your family.”  Ram Dass     Prayer for enlightenment Asatoma satgamaya Tamasoma jyothirgamaya Mrithyorma amritamgamaya Om shanti, shanti, shanti Lead us from ignorance to truth, From darkness to light And from death to eternity Let [...]