Man is born with a center, but he remains completely oblivious of it. Man can live without knowing his center, but man cannot be without a center. The center is the link between man and existence; it is the root. You may not know it, knowledge is not essential for the center to be, but […]

  All these sutras are concerned with how to achieve the inner center. The basic mechanism used, the basic technique used is, if you can create a center outside — anywhere: in the mind, in the heart, or even outside on a wall — and if you concentrate totally on it and you bracket out […]

For this sutra, for this technique of meditation, one has to close his eyes and visualize his spinal column, his backbone. It is good to look up in some physiology book the structure of the body, or to go to some medical college or hospital and look at the structure of the body. Then close […]

  Man is as if he is a circle without a center. His life is superficial; his life is only on the circumference. You live on the outside, you never live within. You cannot, unless a center is found. You cannot live within, really you have no within. You are without a center, you have […]

This is one of the oldest techniques — very much used, and one of the simplest also. Close all the openings of the head — eyes, ears, nose, mouth. When all the openings of the head are closed, your consciousness, which is continuously flowing out, is stopped suddenly: it cannot move out. You may not […]

The fourth method is for those who have a very developed heart, who are loving, feeling types, emotional. Blessed one, as senses are absorbed in the heart, reach the center of the lotus.  This method can be used only by heart-oriented persons. Therefore, understand first what is a heart-oriented person. Then this method can be […]

Only this much is the sutra. Just like any scientific sutra it is short, but even these few words can transform your life totally. Unminding mind, keep in the middle — until. Keep in the middle… Buddha developed his whole technique of meditation on this sutra. His path is known as MAJJHIM NIKAYA — the […]

The human body is a mysterious mechanism. Its working is two-dimensional. In order to go to the outside, your consciousness goes through the senses to meet the world, to meet matter. But this is only one dimension of your body’s functions. Your body has another dimension also: it leads you in. If consciousness goes out, […]

18. Look lovingly at some object. do not go to another object. here in the middle of the object — the blessing. I should repeat it: Look lovingly at some object. do not go to another . Do not move to another object. here in the middle of the object — the blessing. Look lovingly […]

  19. Without support for feet or hands, sit only on the buttocks. suddenly, the centering. This technique has been used by Taoists in China for centuries, and it is a wonderful technique — one of the easiest. Try this: Without support for feet or hands, sit only on the buttocks. suddenly, the centering.   […]