Steve Shields

For thousands of years, human beings have practiced techniques of mental focusing, designed to change the habitual conditioning of the mind. Central to many spiritual and philosophical traditions and known...

My friends'' children have been learning to swim this past summer and I received glowing reports about how well they were doing. At the beginning, the children themselves told a...

Meditation is the basis of the spiritual life. It is meditation that enables us to understand the teachings of the mystics and apply them in our daily life; it is...

Meditation Moment: Spiritual companionship (Satsang) We are a gregarious species, and everywhere you will see like-minded people coming together. Visit a ski shop, and you will find the worshippers of...

OPINION COLUMN: Meditation Moment: Spiritual companionship (Satsang) We are a gregarious species, and everywhere you will see like-minded people coming together. Visit a ski shop, and you will find the...

The sixth point of the Eight-Point Program of Passage Meditation is putting others first. Sanskrit has a precise term for self-will: ahamkara. Ahamkara is the force that continuously creates our...

The fourth point in the eight-point program of Passage Meditation is One-Pointed Attention. Though our mind may be three-pointed or four-pointed or a hundred-pointed now, we can train it to...

People say life has grown so complicated, busy and crowded that we have to hurry to survive. We don''t need to accept that idea. It is quite possible to live...

The word "meditation" means many different things to different people. It has been applied to dancing, and to listening to music and even to letting the mind wander, which is...

I will present the Eight-Point Program and Passage Meditation as presented by Eknath Easwaran of Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. I will present the program here for you in a...