Life Guide

Please contact me to talk over learning meditation from a beginner or intermediate to a very advanced level. Or to talk to me about working with you to bring you into the next level of meditative practice you are schooled in. This can be done through personal meetings, phone conversations and email exchanges if personal meetings are too distant.

I have been practicing daily meditation for 36 years, mostly in the confines of monasteries and contemplative retreats. For as many as 30 years I've practiced 3 hours of meditation a day. The main school of meditation I was trained in is Pure Awareness meditation, beginning with a 7-step system of meditation that takes the meditator through deep physical body awareness into a condition of being psychic pure awareness, or awareness aware of itself. This is the ground state for an infinite range of meditation states from ultimate oneness to transforming your subconcious into a powerful ally of thinking and opportunity.

Meditation is the ultimate pursuit of humanity, for it takes each individual into their personal experience of infinite beingness and oneness with this and internal universes. And this is demonstrated by all spiritual or mystical men or women who've written about their meditation experiences, or had them recorded by students or admirers.

Yet, meditation is also a simpler, more relaxed state of mind that leads to heightened sense awareness, intuivite insight or the quieting and changing of the hormonal responses at the basis of many illnesses and anxieties about life.

Meditation is really the essence of simplicity. A pure, uncomplicated, undistracted field of perception. At its root, meditation is becoming quiet enough to be consciously aware for extended periods of time. It is a very natural state. In fact, meditation is the natural state of mind. It is the most natural way of being and perceiving. Underneath all the normal chatter of our thoughts and concerns, the feel of our emotions, and replaying of memories and projections of the future, we are always in a condition of meditation.

People come to meditation for many reasons: to deeply relax, change body states that are unhealthy, to derive knowledge on a particular subject, to feel connectivity, to develop psychic powers, dwell in the body of the soul, to experience identical oneness with all universes, to realize oneness with the Primal Being.

Whatever the reason, the process of meditation—of learning to successfully meditate—is basically similar for most people, yet it also needs mentoring. Learning to meditate, or to successfuly transit from one level of meditation to another takes customized guidance, a guide who knows all the challenges, obstacles, pitfalls of the way. Yet, as like a mountaineering guide, also knows the equipment, maps, topography and the destinations intimately. And can get you to the summits.

Through my monk's background, my writing projects and teaching opportunities, I've been exposed to a wide variety of meditation schools from both the east and west. I am familiar with most of them in practice, and have deeply studied the similarities all meditation systems share. Part of my expertise lies in working with individuals who are practicing a particularly meditation school, yet seem unable to break into the next level of their unfoldment or meditative achievement. Meditation is at one level about transiting through one dimension of meditation to the next, and then the next.