Sahaja Meditation in the USA

Hey, New York! On Thursday, July 8, meditate…

… and get more energy.

(see below for details)

A “silent space” is created when the non-stop “talk radio” of my thoughts quiets down. The state seems to be related to the parasympathetic, because after a few minutes of mental silence, I feel my entire body go into deep relaxation, my breathing slower and deeper, all muscle tension released, all negative emotions cleared out.

On July 8 in Manhattan, a whole lot of people will be enjoying that “silent space” together.

You are invited to

An Evening of Sahaja Meditation
Thursday, July 15 at 7:00 p.m.
New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
New York, NY 10023

This is a follow-up to the July 8 introductory program. Bring your friends and family!

info: ny-meditates@sahajameditation.com

nymeditation.org

Returning to a state of meditation, feeling our own breath moving in and out, establishing ourselves in our own silence, our attention can become unstuck. We can be in the present.

My mind wants to wrestle with everything; my mind is in a shoving match with the way things are. My mind is never satisfied. In a state of Sahaja Meditation, my mind rests. It takes a break. It gets out of the way. Then in floods glorious, unfiltered reality — intense and wondrous.

Looking at the glory of nature helps to relax the mind and the body.
The Hudson River, viewed from Yonkers, New York

Our hearts work better when we’re relaxed, too. Practicing Sahaja Meditation seems to create an immense amount of power to do good. This power gets unleashed as acts of kindness, generosity, patience, and spending more time with other people listening instead of speaking.

The power manifests quietly. It’s expressed in the wordless gesture of reaching out a hand and holding the hand of another human being and feeling the absolute purity and dignity of the other person flowing in. It shows itself not by the individual acts of expressing love, but in the accumulation of them: In the inexhaustible, ongoing, ever-flowing quantity and exquisite quality of those acts. Giving love to other people then generates more of the power, the energy, within the one who is giving it.

I suspect that our brains work better when we’re relaxed. When we get outside, away from our computer screens and cubicles, and sit and look at a lake, our brains have a chance to relax.

I think that in that relaxed state is when we will discover answers. Problems will find solutions. Riddles will be solved. Eurekas will happen.

We relax when we feel good. We feel good when we’re loved.