Welcome, friends, to the realm of your greatest superpower: meditation. Forget incense-laden clichĂ©s and the hush of distant monasteries—this practice is not an esoteric luxury reserved for mystics. It’s the most practical, portable technology ever invented for returning to your most accurate address: the Self that existed before the world etched a name onto your passport and a rĂ©sumĂ© onto your destiny. 1. Remembering the Face Before the Mask When we say “self,” we don’t mean the collage of titles, tasks, and selfies scrolling through your phone. We point to the primal, pre-verbal awareness—the “original face” Zen masters hint at, the observer that watched you dreaming in the womb before you knew the word I. Meditation is the secret passage back to that dimension. 2. Preparing the Temple Wake the body: Loosen up with smooth, wave-like stretches—roll each joint, unwind each muscle, and flick off tension like you’d brush lint off a coat. You’re unkinking the m...
Welcome, friends. Consider this: Most of our lives, we wander through a dream—not the vivid kind that visits us in sleep, but a waking trance spun by the mind. This mind, shaped by layers of past experiences and projected fears or desires for the future, becomes the silent ruler of our lives. The servant has forgotten its place, pulling us into memories and fantasies while the true master—our conscious self—sleeps quietly in the background. Imagine your life as a chariot racing forward. The horses are your five senses, the reins gripped tightly by the ego-mind. And you? You are the master, lying dormant in the back of the carriage, lulled into slumber by the clamor of the world outside. You’ve forgotten your proper role—not to be pulled along but to rise, take the reins, and guide the chariot from the inside out. So, how do we awaken? How do we stir from this deep slumber of forgetfulness and reclaim our rightful place as the director of our own story? We begin with the sacred art...