What is Meditation

J. Krishnamurti Quotes

It has been some time since we discussed the thoughts of the great master meditator and teacher, J. Krishnamurti.  Below is a quote from him, which I think gives one a great deal of insight into what meditation is and how to practice it.  This type of meditation, the only type Krishnamurti would consider as meditation, is along the lines of insight meditation or jyana yoga.

Book:        Meditations

Author:      J. Krishnamurti

Publisher:  Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Page:        41

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Often I have spoken about integrating what you love to do into your life. There is nothing more important perhaps than first, discovering your passion and then, finding a way to live it.  It is of course ideal if your career and life are devoted to this passion, but other ways of living it are also possible.  Those who manage to do this, are the truly blessed.

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Test Your Spiritual Development

Test Your Spiritual Practice

How do you know you are developing spiritually?  What are the ways to tell if your spiritual practice is in full flow, strong and growing?  How can you test your spiritual growth?  Unlike other types of personal development, such as fitness, weight loss, financial growth, skill development, etc., which have clear yardsticks for measurement, evaluating spiritual growth and testing the strength of a spiritual practice is a much more subtle game.  After all, in this case we dealing with the sublime business of silence.

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Best Self Help & Spiritual Blog Articles

Yoga, Meditation & Spiritual Growth Blog Carnival #23

Welcome to the 23th edition of the Meditation, Yoga and Personal Development carnival.  This is really an excellent edition, with a ton of great articles.  There is lots of stuff on meditation, stress relief, changing your life, health and spirituality.

For my fellow active stumblers if you are interested in networking on Stumble Upon, please go ahead and reach out to me.  My stumble upon id is http://anmolmehta.stumbleupon.com.

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Advanced Kundalini Yoga Technique

Kundalini Awakening Technique

An important aspect of dealing with Kundalini Shakti (energy) is to concentrate your efforts on the purification and strengthening of your systems and nadis (energy channels), and not prematurely use direct methods to awaken Kundalini.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with Kundalini Shakti and Kundalini Yoga, you may want to first read the following 2 articles: Introduction to the Science of Kundalini Yoga & Kundalini Yoga’s Seven Chakra System Overview.

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Obama or McCain Better for Spirituality

Last week we ran the fun survey, which candidate would be most qualified to uplift the world spiritually, Barack Obama or John McCain.  Well, the votes have been counted and pretty much, like the general election, this was not very close either.  Barack Obama won comfortably and here are those results.

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Yoga Plank Position

Yoga Pose to Strengthen Arms & Back

Plank Pose is a yoga position which, in general, women find a bit more challenging than men to do.  Especially, if they have not consciously developed their upper body strength.  So if you looking to tone up your arms, as well as strengthen your back and spine, this pose is perfect for you.  Plank pose is simple enough for beginners to do and is a good way to balance your yoga workout by adding some upper body work into it.

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Best Yoga & Meditation Techniques

Most Popular Meditation & Yoga Techniques

Mastery of Meditation & Yoga now offers hundreds of time tested yoga and meditation techniques to help you achieve your highest potential.  The techniques range for helping you develop your charisma (Eagle Pose) all the way to helping you bring about the cessation of thoughts (SM Meditation Technique).  Since there are so many techniques now available though, I thought it would be valuable to point out which are the top 5 yoga and meditation techniques, that the readers have most benefited from so far.

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The Problem of Free Yoga & Meditation

(Please note: This article is being quite misunderstood by many, so I am adding this note up here to prevent more confusion.  I am not asking for anything in return for the free yoga, and I not complaining about anything.  This article is about whether the psychology of determining value based on money, makes that which is free less valued.  Which would then lead to a less serious approach to the practice and thus, fewer benefits for the practitioners).

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In case you are not aware, it is election season here in America and today is election day. Today Americans are going to choose their next president and it’s a heated battle between 2 senators, John McCain and Barack Obama. This particular election has gotten a great deal of media attention worldwide, and has broken all previous records for how many polls have been conduction to gauge which candidate is leading.

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