Sahaja Meditation in the USA

Sports Illustrated, July 5, 2010 issue. Article written by Gary Smith

Wutthichai Phojhachai is a Buddhist monk in Louisiana. Referring to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he said, “Stay still and take a breath…. The problem has already occurred, so now is not the time for blame. That is wasted time.

Involve yourself. Do what you can. So many families with four people—and four cars. Can you drop each other off on the way to work and school? …You have to see all the links in the chain.”

Gary Smith writes:

“Affluence is a funny thing. Once so many millions of people have so many millions of dollars at stake, even life-and-death issues are resolved on the basis of what protects my money, right now—not the general good or the planet’s health.

“Money and fear will choke even the strongest to death… unless they take that step back, take that breath, and see what money and fear are doing to them.”

“The sense of well-being pervaded all over me.

“On the way home, I threw away my tobacco tin and gave up smoking permanently, and then leapt in the air and swung round lamposts for sheer joy and exuberance.”

Some people have calm, serene experiences when they try Sahaja Meditation. And some people have strong, vivid, extraordinary experiences. One man recounted his first experience of the meditation like this:

“I felt much cleaner, much lighter, and filled with great love, peace, security and bliss.”

Many of us have developed a habit of thinking about everything. Once we’ve experienced the world we live in while our mind is quiet, in meditation, we realize how much there is to enjoy. With no analysis or opinion to get in the way, we can discover the true beauty of another human being.

TIME magazine, November 17, 2008:

Barack Obama’s half-brother, Malik, lives in the village of Kogelo in western Kenya. Malik and Barack are part of the Jor’Obama clan. They have the same grandfather. Malik is the first-born son of the first-born son and the clan leader.

Alex Perry, the writer of the article, wrote, “There are so many unlikelihoods in his story that an Obama victory seemed like a fairy tale.” Barack’s father got a scholarship to study in the U.S. In Hawaii he met and married Ann and had a son. Malik said, “Look, my father might have gotten a scholarship to someplace like Brazil, and none of this would have happened. My brother is not supposed to accomplish even half of what he has. It’s meant to be impossible.

It makes you wonder. Is this some force at work, the dynamics of nature or life? Is it God? We divided the world after 9/11. And the world said no. And through my brother, we can all connect again.”