Tag: Meditation

Brute Force Meditation: Why It Fails & The Vedantic Path to True Transformation


Most meditation techniques today—from breath-watching and mantra chanting to mindfulness and loving-kindness—belong to the Raja Yoga or Buddhist tradition. While they calm the mind temporarily, they work like “brute force” methods, attempting to suppress thoughts without addressing their root: our underlying desires. True inner transformation, however, requires a radical shift in understanding, not mere mental discipline. Vedanta teaches that only through śravaṇa (learning), manana (reflection), and eventually nididhyāsana (meditation) can the mind genuinely quieten. When the nature of the self, the world, and desire is understood, meditation becomes natural, effortless, and transformative—not just relaxing.

Spiritual Path Simplified: A Guided Journey Through Advaita and Self-Realization


This post presents a distilled guide to understanding the spiritual journey through the lens of Advaita Vedanta. It brings together 12 essential writings that explain the nature of reality as name-and-form, the illusory role of the ego, and the discovery of inner happiness. Readers are encouraged to explore each linked article while keeping in mind three key insights: the world is an appearance, the ego is not the thinker-doer, and true happiness lies within. For deeper study, the book “Happiness & Consciousness” is recommended as a concise yet comprehensive companion.

Why I Have Gone Into Seclusion


In this candid reflection, Sam opens up about stepping away from social chatter and phone calls—not out of indifference, but as an act of quiet rebellion against the noise of life. He muses that most of our problems arise from the restless mind and its endless buzz, which we often mistake for living. Through this introspective note, he invites readers to pause, sip coffee at sunset, and ponder whether peace begins where the “I, Me, Mine” ends. Honest, humorous, and deeply meditative, Sam’s farewell is less a goodbye and more a gentle nudge toward inner stillness.

The Empty Mind – J. Krishnamurti


In this profound Saanen talk, J. Krishnamurti explores the nature of intelligence born of insight — an awareness that acts instantly and without conflict. He questions the conditioning that makes human beings seek satisfaction through conformity, ideology, or authority, and urges the listener to sustain a “flame of discontent” that leads to true understanding. When all patterns of comparison, imitation, and suppression are dropped, the mind becomes empty — not void, but free and alive. In that emptiness lies insight, and from that insight, spontaneous, unmotivated action arises — pure, immediate, and transformative.