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After eighteen years of teaching, nearly every problem a new meditator brings me comes down to one of three things. **Posture.** If your back is collapsing, your mind will follow. Sit on the front edge of a cushion so yo…
I sit at 9pm after work and within about eight minutes I am gone. I have tried sitting upright, cold room, eyes half open. Nothing holds. Is this a discipline failure or is my body telling me something?
Following on from the sleep thread. I want the specific mechanics people use, not "sleep more." Mine: open the eyes fully, lift the gaze slightly above horizontal, and lengthen the inhale for ten breaths. Works maybe sev…
Something I wish more teachers named clearly. Calm has texture — you feel your body, you are present, things are simply quieter. Dissociation feels smooth and far away, like watching yourself through glass. Beginners oft…
A note for people arriving at tantra through the internet. Most of what is sold under this name online has no relationship to the tradition. The actual literature is philosophical, ritual, and demanding, and it was never…
The classical daily routine assumes a life most of us do not have — no commute, no shift work, no phone. What I keep after years of trying: wake before sunrise, warm water first, eat the largest meal at midday, stop eati…
Three sentences, every time, before any Reiki session: This is not medical treatment. It does not replace anything your doctor has told you. If you have a diagnosis, keep your appointments. Some people find it deeply rel…
Working through my own chart and I notice a tendency — mine and others' — to read one hard transit as fate. How do practitioners here hold the balance between the chart as a map and the chart as a verdict? Genuinely aski…
New practitioners agonise over getting Sanskrit sounds perfect and then abandon the mala after a week. Get the vowel lengths roughly right, learn from a recording, and then *keep going*. A hundred imperfect repetitions d…
For two years I read every account of every state and quietly measured my practice against them. Nothing I felt ever qualified. Then a teacher asked me what I was practising *for*. I did not have an answer that was not a…