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Celebrating Guru Purnima
Happy Guru Purnima! By Tasha Friedman Nisargadatta Maharaj, the great 20th-century master of Advaita Vedanta, used to do a strange thing. He continued to honor his teacher in daily rituals,…
Celebrating Padmasambhava
Celebrating Padmasambhava By Tasha Friedman The path is always before you, within you, all around you. But where it will take you is a mystery, every step of the way.…
Celebrating the Dalai Lama
Happy Birthday to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama! By Tasha Friedman Happy Birthday to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama! Among Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama is known as…
Into Great Silence: Approaching the Divine Mystery through Prayer
Into Great Silence: Approaching the Divine Mystery through Prayer By Tasha Friedman Eventually, the questions disappear. Slowly, as the echoes die out, or abruptly as if someone pressed “mute.” Wordless,…
Celebrating St. Joan of Arc
Celebrating St. Joan of Arc By Tasha Friedman What are you willing to give your life for? Although we might not think of it in these terms, many of us…
Praying to Goddess Tara in the Confusion of Our Times
Praying to Goddess Tara, the Compassionate Guiding Star, in the Confusion of Our Times By Sahajananda Perhaps the defining detail of our times is not the war or the pandemic,…
The Monkey and the Tiger: The Synergy of Effort and Grace in Spiritual Practice
The Monkey and the Tiger: The Synergy of Effort and Grace in Spiritual Practice By Tasha Friedman “Krishna may embrace me in love or trample me under His feet. He…
The Dance of the Void: Kundalini Awakening as the Union of Shiva and Shakti
Kundalini Awakening as the Union of Shiva and Shakti Of all the energies we might encounter through the practice of yoga, there is none more potent and transformative than Kundalini…
Choosing Peace: The Path From Conflict to Love
Choosing Peace: The Path From Conflict to Love By Tasha Friedman Let’s begin with a bold statement: all people can exist in peace and harmony, loving and supporting each other.…
Celebrating Swami Lakshmanjoo, the Great Teacher of Kashmir Shaivism
Happy Birthday to Swami Lakshmanjoo, the Great Teacher of Kashmir Shaivism By Tasha Friedman Happy birthday to Swami Laksmanjoo—or Lal Sahib, “the friend of God,” as he was known to…
Celebrating Shankaracharya, the Father of Advaita Vedanta
Happy Birthday to Shankaracharya, the Father of Advaita Vedanta By Tasha Friedman “I am Consciousness and Bliss without form. I am Shiva, I am Shiva…” The legends say that while…
The Fire of Truth: Kundalini and Kundalini Yoga
The Fire of Truth: Kundalini and Kundalini Yoga If you’ve spent much time in a yogic environment, you have undoubtedly heard the word, and perhaps some attempt to define or…
Tonglen: Awakening the Heart’s Compassion
Tonglen: Awakening the Heart’s Compassion Ananda, the Buddha’s personal attendant, once asked, “Would it be true to say that the cultivation of loving-kindness and compassion is a part of our…
Ode to Solitude
“I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.” –Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself The recent end of the 49-Day Pratyabhijna…
Spiritual Fasting: Being near the Divine
Spiritual Fasting: Being near the Divine “There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.…
Freedom and Balance in Meditation
Freedom and Balance in Meditation By Tasha Friedman There is a feeling that comes in meditation like letting go of the handlebars of a bicycle and just flying: no…
Celebrating Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
Happy Birthday to Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion By Tasha Friedman Today is Guanyin’s birthday, or one of three birthdays on which the bodhisattva of compassion is honored in China…
A Shared Solitude
A Shared Solitude: Reflections from a Silent Retreat By Mehdi Dumondel Our most recent silent meditation retreat will be concluding tomorrow in Longeval. The smell of spring is in the…
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